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Two members of a ROLES Working Group are going to present the tentative result of the latest survey at a workshop organized by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University.

Prof. Satoshi Machidori of Kyoto University, head of the Working Group "Empirical Methods of Analyzing Liberal Democracy," and Prof. Harukata Takenaka of GRIPS, a member of the WG, will speak based on a survey research primarily led by Prof. Hanako Ohmura, Professor of the Graduate School of Law of Kyoto University, at the workshop "Public Expectations of Government Responses to Security Contingencies Around Japan in a Changing International Environment" which will be held at Columbia University campus in New York on January 31.

Details are as follows, accordning to the descriptions on the website of Columbia University.

Workshop "Public Expectations of Government Responses to Security Contingencies Around Japan in a Changing International Environment"
January 31, 2025
12:00 - 2:00 (PM ET)

Venue: School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th Street, Room 918, New York, NY 10027

Speakers:
Satoshi Machidori, Professor of Political Science, Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University, Japan

Harukata Takenaka, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies = GRIPS, Japan

Discussant:
Amy Catalinac, Associate Professor of Politics, NYU

Moderator:
Kenneth Mori McElwain, Visiting Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

This workshop will host two scholars who will speak on Japanese public attitudes toward possible geopolitical contingencies in the light of changing international environment in East Asia. Their new, large-scale survey experiment examines voter assessments of possible government responses to security crises, including a possible Taiwan contingency. The report also analyzes how perceptions of shared ethnicity may affect public reactions to a hypothetical threat from a democratic regime, expanding the research on the relationship between ethnicity and democratic peace. This research is part of a multi-year study project by ROLES (Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology Open Laboratory for Emergence Strategies, University of Tokyo).

This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and co-sponsored by China and the World Program and APEC Study Center.