On Thursday, January 25th, join the Asia Policy Program and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA for a panel event on the US-Japan Alliance. Hear from experts on the progress of US-Japan alliance modernization initiatives, the view from Tokyo and Washington, and what we should look for in upcoming elections throughout the region. The Asia Policy Program is a joint effort of the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law.
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Speakers:
James L. Schoff is senior director of the “US-Japan NEXT Alliance Initiative” at Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA (based in Washington, DC). The Initiative, launched in 2021, mixes bilateral dialogue, research, and public-private engagement to help improve the alliance and how it serves shared interests, preparing it for new challenges in an increasingly complex and fluid geostrategic environment. Previously, Schoff was a senior fellow and director of the Japan Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for nine years, following two years as senior adviser for East Asia policy at the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense. Schoff’s career spans thirty-five years working in the fields of business, education, government, and the non-profit sector, all related to Japan, East Asia, and the US-Japan alliance. His publications include “Modernizing US-Japan Command & Control Relationships for New Challenges” (Sasakawa USA, May 2023), “China and the New Role for Economic Security in the US-Japan Alliance” (Sasakawa Peace Foundation, April 2022), “US-Japan Technology Policy Coordination: Balancing Technonationalism with a Globalized World” (Carnegie, 2020), and Uncommon Alliance for the Common Good: The United States and Japan after the Cold War (Carnegie, 2017).
Matake Kamiya is currently professor of international relations at the National Defense Academy of Japan. Starting from January 2024, he will serve as president of the Japan Association for International Security. He is also vice president at the Japan Forum on International Relations, adjunct research fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs and member of the research committee of the Research Institute for Peace and Security. He served as Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand, during 1994-1995, as a member of the editorial board of Australian Journal of International Affairs from 1997 to 2000, and as editor-in-chief of Discuss Japan – Japan Foreign Policy Forum from 2013 to 2016. His current research interests include the U.S.-Japan alliance, future of the liberal rules-based international order, Japanese foreign and security policies, the Indo-Pacific security, and nuclear issues including Japan’s (non-)nuclear policy. He has been serving as the leader of the Japan-U.S. joint research project on “China Risk and China Opportunity” since 2017.