Details

The seminar is the third event jointly organized by KAS and JIIA and aims at promoting intellectual exchange and dialogue between academics and politicians from Japan and Germany on a range of topical foreign policy and security policy issues.

Prgram

09:45

Registration

10:00

Opening Remarks

• Amb.Yoshiji Nogami (President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs)

• Dr. Colin Dürkop (Regional Representative KAS Seoul)

• H.E. Dr. Volker Stanzel (Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Japan)

10:15 – 12:00

Session I: Japan and Germany in Global Governance Next Stage for Global Security Issues

Moderator

• Dr. Peter Roell (Institute for Strategic-Political-Security and Economic Consultancy Germany)

Presenter

• Mr. Michito Tsuruoka (National Institute for Defense Studies)

The EU and NATO as a Security Partner: A View from Japan

• Colonel Ralph Thiele (Chairman, Political-Military Association Germany)

Europe's Security Policy in the next 15 years

Discussion

12:00

Lunch hosted by JIIA

13:30 – 15:15

Session II: Role of Global and Regional Institutions in International Cooperation as Enhancing Security

Moderator

• Ms. Naoko Saiki (Deputy Director-General, Japan Institute of International Affairs)

Presenter

• Dr. Ryo Sahashi (Tokyo University, Japan)

• Dr. Axel Berkofsky (University of Pavia, Italy)

''Security Institutions and For a in Asia - Limits, Impact and EU Role

Discussant

• Dr. Narayanan Ganesan (Hiroshima Peace Institute)

15:15 – 15:30

Coffee/Tea Break

15:30 – 17:00

Session III:

Challenges in Afghanistan

Moderator

• Lt. Gen. (ret) Dr. Klaus Olshausen (President, Clausewitz Association, Germany)

Presenter

• Dr. Thomas Prinz (Councellor, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Tokyo)

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• Prof. Yoko Iwama (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan)

Japanese Perspective on Afghan issues

Discussion

17:00

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• Ms. Naoko Saiki (Deputy Director-General, Japan Institute of International Affairs)

• Dr. Akio Konuma (Secretary General Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Tomo-no-Kai, Tokyo/Japan)

18:00

Dinner hosted by

• Dr. Anna Prinz (Minister and Deputy Head of Mission, German Embassy)