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Japan's Grand Strategy

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Asia Research Centre and International Relations Department public lecture

Date: Monday 13 October 2008
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: U8, Tower One
Speaker: Professor Richard Samuels

As the Soviet Union disappeared so did the most serious threat to Japanese security. But it was not long before four new threats took its place. Japan, rarely credited for its foreign policy, has responded with surprising strategic agility.

Richard Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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