Webinar | Joe Biden, the new US administration and Alliances in Northeast Asia: perspectives from Japan and Korean peninsula

Mercredi 13 janvier 2021

Webinar

Joe Biden, the new US administration and Alliances in Northeast Asia: perspectives from Japan and the Korean peninsula.

IRSEM - January 13rd, 2021

The US Alliances and security relations with major Asian partners, such as  Japan and South Korea, faced many challenges under the Trump administration partly due to Donald Trump handling of the "burden sharing issue", the Sumitries policy with North Korea and diverging attitudes toward China.

Chair : Dr Maud Quessard, Senior Research Fellow US Foreign Policy, Director of Research Transatlantic Studies at IRSEM.

11:00-11:10     Introduction and Presentation. Dr Maud Quessard, IRSEM.

11:10-11:25  Japan Defense Strategy and the US Alliance. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Nobushige Takamizawa, former Permanent Representative of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament.

11:25-11:40   South Korea Defense Strategy and the US Alliance. CDR Marianne Péron-Doise, Research Fellow, Northeast Asia, Maritime Security, IRSEM.

11:40-11:55    Kim Jong-un and the new US administration. Dr Théo Clément, Research Fellow, Research Center on Korea, Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales (EHESS).

11:55-12:15     Questions / Answers period.

Inscriptions are closed 

Contacts :

-          Marianne Péron-Doise (marianne.peron-doise@irsem.fr)

-          Maud Quessard (maud.quessard@irsem.fr)

-          Dorian Léger – Communication – (dorian.leger@irsem.fr)