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Guest Lecture : Prof. Ra Mason - US Politics and Foreign Policy-
On 2020 December 18th, the College of IR hosted guest lecture by Prof. Ra Mason (Sasakawa Lecturer in International Relations and Japanese Foreign Policy University of East Anglia) in US Politics and Foreign Policy(Taught by Professor Thomas French).
The lecture examines Okinawa as a key site in regional relations, located at the intersection of current Sino-Western rivalries. It thereby adopts a multilayered, eclectic approach to Japan’s national security and regional relations more broadly from an Okinawan perspective. The session therein examines multiple layers of security on Okinawa from the perspectives of the state, market and society. This allows students to take part in a multifaceted reexamination of the US-Japan Alliance, Sino-Japanese and Sino-American dyads, and elucidates the key role that actors on Okinawa have to play in all these relationships.
The session is presented as a multi-part asynchronous lecture, followed by synchronous Q&A.
The content is research-led, feeding from research currently being undertaken for an ongoing collaborative project being conducted by the speaker and colleagues at Ritsumeikan University, led by Professor Keiji Nakatsuji, and forms part of a growing institutional research and teaching exchange relationship between Ritsumeikan University and the University of East Anglia.
The students were actively engaged and the time allotted for questions and answers was filled easily. Professor Mason answered many questions on a range of issues connected to Okinawa and its position within US and Japanese security, including on security, economic, cultural, linguistic and political issues. The students gained valuable insights from a specialist on this subject and professor Mason was very impressed with the quality of their questions and comments.
The lecture examines Okinawa as a key site in regional relations, located at the intersection of current Sino-Western rivalries. It thereby adopts a multilayered, eclectic approach to Japan’s national security and regional relations more broadly from an Okinawan perspective. The session therein examines multiple layers of security on Okinawa from the perspectives of the state, market and society. This allows students to take part in a multifaceted reexamination of the US-Japan Alliance, Sino-Japanese and Sino-American dyads, and elucidates the key role that actors on Okinawa have to play in all these relationships.
The session is presented as a multi-part asynchronous lecture, followed by synchronous Q&A.
The content is research-led, feeding from research currently being undertaken for an ongoing collaborative project being conducted by the speaker and colleagues at Ritsumeikan University, led by Professor Keiji Nakatsuji, and forms part of a growing institutional research and teaching exchange relationship between Ritsumeikan University and the University of East Anglia.
The students were actively engaged and the time allotted for questions and answers was filled easily. Professor Mason answered many questions on a range of issues connected to Okinawa and its position within US and Japanese security, including on security, economic, cultural, linguistic and political issues. The students gained valuable insights from a specialist on this subject and professor Mason was very impressed with the quality of their questions and comments.