Short Report of Open Seminar (6/30/2016):

Speaker:

Dr. Catharine Gegout, Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University - Kinugasa Campus, on June 30, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), Approximately 30 participants attended the seminar.

This seminar examined how the security cooperation has been conducted between the EU and China on the issue of Africa’s security. Although there has been pessimism as China and EU possess a different and a diverse perspective on security issues, this seminar argued that, in the context of Africa, China and EU have mutual interests both in economy and security architect. Furthermore, this seminar was also accentuated the most current situation of the so-called Brexit as the one of the EU’s backbone and how this Brexit affected the EU performance in the region.