WebinarTuesday 19 November 2024
1:00pm – 2:00pm (UK) / 10:00pm – 11:00pm (Japan)
A New Trump Presidency - The Implications for US-Japan Relations
Online webinar, accessible remotely via Zoom
the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Organised by
Booking closedFollowing a fiercely contested campaign in which opinions have been sharply polarised, former President Donald Trump has been elected to be the 47th president of the United States. Donald Trump’s election victory will have profound implications for the world order and the future of relations between the US and other countries, including Japan. He may define a new direction of US policy on the Ukraine war, the Middle East, China, and economic relations with allies in Europe and Asia, significantly impacting the international order.
In this seminar, moderated by Gideon Rachman, the panelists discussed how US domestic and foreign policies are likely to shift after the election, and the implications for the future of the international order and US relations with Japan.
A recording of this event can be viewed here:
About the contributors
Professor G. John Ikenberry
Dr G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also Co-Director of Princeton’s Centre for International Security Studies and Co-Director of the Princeton Project on National Security. He was the 72nd Eastman Professor at Balliol College, Oxford, in 2013-14, and Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2018-19. He has previously served as a member of the Policy Planning Staff (1991-92), as a member of an advisory group at the State Department (2003-04), and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on U.S.-European relations. He is the author of numerous journal articles, essays and books, including Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American System (2011); and After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (2001) which won the 2002 Schroeder-Jervis Award. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science.
Professor Yasushi Watanabe
Dr Yasushi Watanabe is Professor of Public Diplomacy and American Studies at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University. Before joining Keio University, he was awarded a PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, and undertook post-doctoral research at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. He was a Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge in 2007, a Visiting Professor at Sciences-Po in 2013, a Japan Scholar at the Wilson Center, and a Visiting Scholar at Peking University and the College of Europe in 2018. His books include the co-edited volume Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States (2008) and the edited volume Handbook of Cultural Security (2018).
Gideon Rachman (chair)
Gideon Rachman is chief foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times. He writes a weekly column for the FT and hosts an international-affairs podcast. His main interests include geopolitics in Asia, US foreign policy and the future of the EU. Rachman has won the Orwell Prize for journalism (2016) and was also named commentator of the year in the European Press Prize awards in 2016. He has written two books on international politics – Zero-Sum World (2011) and Easternisation (2016). He is also a regular public speaker, appearing before both academic and business audiences.