“The World of Balance of Threat: The Origins of Alliances Revisited”

Speakers:
Stephen M. Walt, Harvard University
Saban Kardas, TOBB ETU
Kohei Imai, IDE-JETRO
Masaki Mizobuchi, Hiroshima University

Moderator: Satoshi Ikeuchi, University of Tokyo

Date: April 12, 2022
Time: Boston 08:00-9:30; Tokyo 21:00-22:30; Ankara 15:00-16:30
Format: Zoom Webinar
Registration: Free of Charge on Peatix from Here

Stephen M. Walt’s classical work The Origins of Alliances was published recently in Japanese translation. 

In this book-launching Webinar, Prof. Walt talks about his book which was originally published in 1987 and what the book says about the current situation in Asia, as well as the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Dr. Şaban Kardaş Professor of TOBB ETÜ in Ankara, will make a comment on this book’s resonance in the Middle East and wider. Two scholars who took charge of translating it into Japanese, Dr. Kohei Imai of IDE-JETRO and Dr. Masaki Mizobuchi nof Hiroshima University will join the discussions.

Speakers' Bio:

Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he served as Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences. He has been a Resident Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and he has also served as a consultant for the Institute of Defense Analyses, the Center for Naval Analyses, and the National Defense University. He presently serves on the editorial boards of Foreign Policy, Security Studies, International Relations, and Journal of Cold War Studies, and he also serves as Co-Editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, published by Cornell University Press. Additionally, he was elected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May 2005.

His book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007, co-authored with John J. Mearsheimer) was a New York Times best seller and has been translated into more than twenty foreign languages.   His most recent book is The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018).
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/stephen-walt
https://foreignpolicy.com/author/stephen-m-walt/

Saban Kardas is Professor of Department of Political Science and International Relations at TOBB ETÜ. He has published scholarly articles and book chapters on Turkish domestic and foreign policies, human rights, energy policies and international security and has been an occasional contributor to Turkish and international media. He is assistant editor to the quarterly journal Perceptions and writes analyses for the GMF’s On Turkey series. He has taught classes at Diplomacy Academy, Sakarya University, Police Academy and Turkish Military Academy. He received his doctoral degree in political science from the University of Utah. Dr. Kardas also holds a master’s degree in international relations from the METU in Ankara, and a second master’s degree in European Studies from the Center for European Integration Studies in Bonn, Germany.
https://www.orsam.org.tr/en/saban-kardas/

Kohei Imai is Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies of the Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO). His publications include Contemporary Turkish Diplomacy for the Middle East Order: In Search for Peace and Stability (Minerva Shobo, 2015, in Japanese),  Contemporary History of Turkey (Chuokoronsha, 2017, in Japanese) and The Possibility and Limit of Liberal Middle Power Policies: Turkish Foreign Policy toward the Middle East during the AKP Period (2005–2011) (Lexington Books,2017).
https://www.ide.go.jp/English/Researchers/imai_kohei_en.html

Masaki Mizobuchi received his doctorate in Area Studies from Sophia University in 2011. He has been a researcher at the Japan Forum on International Relations (JFIR), a Postdoctoral Fellow (PD) at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), a Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Public Policy at Harvard University, and a professor at the Nagoya University of Commerce and Business. His research topics include the political, economic, and military/security issues in the Middle East, the U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, and Islamic political thought and movements.
https://seeds.office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/profile/en.e29098ebc261caa8520e17560c007669.html