Japan, the United States, and the Future of World Order Inaugural Workshop

About the Event

In March 2021, the Japan, the United States, and the Future of World Order Program at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs hosted its inaugural workshop, “Japan, the United States, and the Future of World Order,” a two-day, public conference featuring expert insights from current and former government officials, policymakers, and leading experts in the field  on the relationship between the two countries, including the effects of China’s evolving grand strategy, conflict and cooperation on the Korean peninsula, new technologies, the region’s military balance, and the increased importance of transnational issues ranging from climate change to global public health. The group of distinguished scholars and policymakers from Japan and the United States examined the current and future state of the international system and explored how the evolving nature of world order will affect the relationship between the two countries in the years and decades to come. Contributors discussed different aspects and impacts of the Japan-U.S. relationship including effects of China’s evolving grand strategy, conflict and cooperation on the Korean peninsula, new technologies, the region’s military balance, and the increased importance of transnational issues ranging from climate change to global public health. The conference agenda and video recordings of the panels are available below. 

Conference Agenda

Day One
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Opening

Keynote Discussion

• Dr. Kurt Campbell, Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs, National Security Council, The White House
   
• Moderated by The Honorable James B. Steinberg, University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law, Syracuse University

Panel 1

• Professor Yuichi Hosoya, Professor of International Politics, Faculty of Law, Keio University

• Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
   
• Chair and Commentator: Professor Saori Katada, Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California Dornsife College

Panel 2

• Professor Hal Brands, Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS; Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

• Professor Michael J. Green, Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Director of the Asian Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
   
• Chair and Commentator: Ms. Emma Chanlett-Avery, Specialist in Asian Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division, Congressional Research Service
  
  
  

Day Two
Thursday, March 25, 2021 

Opening

Panel 3

• Professor Jennifer M. Lind, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth; Faculty Associate, Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University; Research Associate, Chatham House, London

• Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae, President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)

• The Honorable James B. Steinberg, University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law, Syracuse University
   
• Chair and Commentator: Dr. Zack Cooper, Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

Panel 4

• Professor Francis J. Gavin, Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies; Inaugural Director, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs

• Professor Satoru Mori, Professor, Hosei University

• Dr. Mireya Solís, Director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies; Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies, Brookings Institution
   
• Chair and Commentator: Professor G. John Ikenberry, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University 

Closing