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Public Lecture Announcement:

Oxford Korean Society Public Lecture Series (II)
(Lectures will be given in English)


Japan's Economic Power and Security Policy--
Japan-North Korea Relations in the 1990s

By

 Dr. C.W.Hughes
(Research Fellow of Centre for the Globalisation and Regionalisation,
University of Warwick)

Friday 21 May, 1999
5:00 pm- 6:30 pm

New Room, Hilda Besse Building, St. Antony’s College,
 University of Oxford
Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF


This will be the valuable opportunity for students of international
relations, international political economy and East Asian regional
studies who have an interest in security policy of Japan. Various issues
related to security of Korean peninsula will be discussed in the
lecture.

Speaker:

Dr. C.W.Hughes is a Research Fellow of Centre for the Study of
Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick. He is an
associate editor of The Pacific Review since January 1999 and member of
International Institute for Strategic Studies; British International
Studies Association; British Association of Japanese Studies, Japan
Peace Studies Association; Japan International Politics Association.

He published various books and articles in English and Japanese,
including most recently: 'The North Korean nuclear crisis and Japanese
security', Survival: The IISS Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 2, Spring 1996,
pp. 79-103; 'Japan's subregional and defence linkages with ASEANs, South
Korea and China in the 1990's', in The Pacific Review, vol. 9, no. 2,
1996, pp. 229-50; 'Japan's Aum Shinrikyo, the changing nature of
terrorism, and the post-Cold War security agenda', Pacifica Review:
Peace Security and Global Change, vol. 10, no. 1, February 1998, pp.
39-60; 'Japanese policy and the North Korean 'soft landing', The Pacific
Review, vol. 11, no. 3, 1998, pp. 389- 415; 'Japan and East Asia', in P.
Heenan (ed.), The Japan Handbook, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998;
Japanese Economic Power and Security: Japan and North Korea, Routledge,
1999 (forthcoming); Japanese Business Management: Restructuring for Low
Growth and Globalisation (translation from Japanese to English), H.
Hasegawa and G. D. Hook (eds), Routledge, 1997. Forthcoming work on
Japan and East Asian currency crisis; Japan and EU security cooperation;
textbook on theory and practice of Japanese foreign policy; research
monograph on Japan's comprehensive security policy in the Asia-Pacific.

He is currently working on various issues in the field of International
Relations and International Political Economy; impact of regionalisation
and globalisation in the Asia-Pacific; post-Cold War security policy in
the Asia-Pacific; international relations of Japan; international
political economy of Japan; Japanese foreign and security policy;
Japan's economic relations with
East Asia; Japan-North Korea relations; Japan-EU relations; Japanese
radicalism and terrorism; policy-making in Japan; missile defence in the
Asia-Pacific.


Summaries :

The world is faced with a diverse range of security challenges in the
post-Cold War era. As globalisation continues apace, alternative
options, other than the military, are needed to counter these challenges
and ensure greater peace and stability. This talk is concerned with the
security policy of Japan and in particular how it can exert its economic
strength to alleviate the military tension on the Korean Peninsula and
surrounding region. The talk will aim to critique traditional
balance-of-power conceptions of Korean Peninsula security, and to show
how in the post-Cold War era there now exists a fundamental imbalance of
power between the two Koreas, characterised in particular by North
Korea's growing economic instability which generates, in turn, military
instabilty and tension. The paper will argue that most of the involved
powers, including Japan, have come to recognise that through projects
such as KEDO, there is a need to address the North Korean security
problem by the extension of economic power and cooperation. The paper
also contends that Japan disposes of considerable latent economic power
in areas such as production, trade, and aid, that could be utilised for
security ends on the Korean Peninsula.
However, this power remains poorly instrumentalised in the post-Cold War
era with regard to the Korean Peninsula due to a lack of policy-making
will on the part of Japan's leaders. The paper will
explore briefly the internal and external constraints upon Japan's use
of economic power in this case, and how Japanese policy is increasingly
moving out of synch with the other powers in the region following recent
missile and spy ship incidents. Instead, the paper argues that Japan has
devoted most of its policy-making energies in dealing with the North
Korean security problem to strengthening its military security role
through the redefinition of the US-Japan alliance, the Guidelines
review, and TMD. Thus, the conclusion of the paper is that, even though
Japan has been given an opportunity to use its economic power to assist
in the resolve the North Korean
security problem and to function as something akin to a global civilian
power in the new millennium, its security policy towards North Korea is
bereft of an innovative strategy and is drifting towards greater
incremental militarisation.
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