RIETI Open BBL Seminar

Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics: The United States and China in an Age of Indo-Pacific Transformation

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Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics examines the strategic geography of the sea lanes from Northeast Asia through the Indian Ocean to Europe, through which much of the world's energy and information flows. Especially shows how changing technology and economic patterns have profoundly transformed the global significance of those passageways since the end of the Cold War, with fateful consequences for the strategic calculations of both the United States and a rising China. The decline of the US shipping and shipbuilding sectors, coupled with the rise of their Chinese counterparts, is a significant part of this hybrid equation.
The assessment of shadows and uncertainties relating to the Eurasian Sea lanes stretching from Taiwan to the Red Sea and beyond in the post-Ukraine world, as well as policies that can sensibly be taken to deal with looming future policy challenges, are also considered.

Information

  • Time and Date: 12:15-13:15, Thursday, June 5, 2025 (JST)
  • Venue: Online
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • Host: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
  • Contact: Ms. MATSUOKA, Conference Section
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Speakers

Speaker:
  • Kent E. CALDER (Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University)
    Kent E. Calder currently directs the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University SAIS, as he has done since 2003. He recently also served for varying intervals as Dean, Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs, and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at SAIS.
    Prior to SAIS, Calder served as special advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan; Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); tenured professor at Princeton University; lecturer on government at Harvard; and as the first executive director of Harvard University’s Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Professor Calder received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he worked under the direction of Edwin O. Reischauer, former US Ambassador to Japan.
    A specialist in East Asian political economy, Kent Calder lived and researched in Japan for eleven years and elsewhere in East Asia for four years. He has served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Seoul National University; as Rajaratnam Professor at Nanyang University in Singapore; and as Visiting Professor at the University of Yangon in Myanmar.
    In 2014, Professor Calder was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. His recent publications include: Global Political Cities: Actors and Arenas of Influence in International Affairs (2021); Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration (2019); Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan (2018); Singapore: Smart City, Smart State (2017); Asia in Washington (2014); and The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First Century Eurasian Geopolitics (2012).
Commentator:
  • NISHIKAWA Kazumi (Senior Director, Policy Planning and Coordination Division, Trade and Economic Security Bureau, METI)
Moderator:
  • INOSE Yu (Deputy Director, Support Team for Residents Affected by Nuclear Incidents, Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters, Cabinet Office)