A Post-Abe Japan
in a Changing Asia
Virtual Member-Only Briefing
Tuesday, November 21, 2022 | 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM ET
On July 8, Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was assassinated with a homemade firearm while campaigning for the Liberal Democracy Party (LDP) on the street of Nara city. His death leaves a big political vacuum in Japan. In the shadow of the assassination, the LDP and its coalition partner scored a sweeping victory in the election for Japan’s Upper House. With a two-thirds majority in the Upper Chamber, Prime Minister Kishida has his “golden opportunity” to amend its pacifist constitution, a long-held goal of Mr. Abe, or implement his own policy agenda. What is Shinzo Abe’s legacy? Will Prime Minister Kishida uphold it? How should we expect Japan’s foreign policy to change in a changing Asia? What is the future of U.S.-Japan relations? Join us on Monday, November 21st at 6 PM ET for a private virtual discussion with Dr. Michael J. Green, Chief Executive Officer at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney where we will discuss these questions and more.
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SPEAKER:
Dr. Michael Jonathan Green
Michael Jonathan Green is the chief executive officer at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
Previously Dr. Green was senior vice president for Asia, Japan Chair, and Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and director of Asian Studies and Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He served on the staff of the National Security Council (NSC) from 2001 through 2005, first as director for Asian affairs with responsibility for Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, and then as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asia, with responsibility for East Asia and South Asia. Before joining the NSC staff, he was a senior fellow for East Asian security at the Council on Foreign Relations, director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center and the Foreign Policy Institute and assistant professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and senior adviser on Asia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He also worked in Japan on the staff of a member of the National Diet.
Dr Green is also non-resident senior advisor and Kissinger Chair with CSIS and a distinguished scholar at the Asia Pacific Institute in Tokyo. He serves as a trustee at the Asia Foundation and senior adviser at the Asia Group. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group, the Radio Free Asia Board, the Center for a New American Security Advisory Board, and the editorial boards of the Washington Quarterly and the Journal of Unification Studies in Korea.
Dr Green has authored numerous books and articles on East Asian security, including most recently, By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 (Columbia University Press, 2017) and Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō (Columbia University Press, 2022). He received his master’s and doctoral degrees from SAIS and did additional graduate and postgraduate research at Tokyo University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his bachelor’s degree in history from Kenyon College with highest honours. He holds a black belt in Iaido (sword) and has won international prizes on the great highland bagpipe.
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