#  Associates’ Panel: “Security Threats and Alliance Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific Region” 

 



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 **February 22, 2022** 

 08:30AM - 09:45AM EST 

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 **Online Only**  



 

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####  "The Maritime Self-Defense Forces (MSDF) at the Forefront of U.S.-China Conflict"

 [Tokuhiro Ikeda](https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/people/tokuhiro-ikeda) Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Fujitsu System Integration Laboratories LTD; Former Vice Admiral, Japan Maritime Self Defense Force####    
“Japan and Artificial Intelligence”

 [Aki Nakai](https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/people/aki-nakai) Policy Innovations Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University####    
“National Decision-Making and Collective Intelligence: U.S. Strategic Response to Gray-Zone Challenges”

 [Keita Azuma](https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/people/keita-azuma) Cabinet Secretariat  
  
Discussant: [Jennifer Lind](https://sites.dartmouth.edu/jlind/about/) Associate Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth College  
  
Moderator: [Christina L. Davis](https://scholar.harvard.edu/cldavis/home) Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University *This seminar is part of the Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises, supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP).*  **[Register Now](https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocemoqj8tG9Y3eIv9jkjQmlH6fzZJ3Wgh)**##  Additional Resources 

 1. Ikeda, Tokuhiro. "[JMSDF Activities in the Indo-Pacific Region](https://www.jiia.or.jp/en/ajiss_commentary/jmsdf-activities-in-the-indo-pacific-region.html)." The Japan Institute of International Affairs, April 5, 2021.

 2. Nakai, Aki. "[How to Make Japan's Military Great Again](https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-make-japans-military-great-again-29727)." *The National Interest*, August 25, 2018.

 3. Nakai, Aki. "[Japan Gears up for Electronic Warfare](https://thediplomat.com/2018/09/japan-gears-up-for-electronic-warfare/)." *The Diplomat*, September 5, 2018.

 4. Kawakatsu Ueki, Chikako and Lind, Jennifer. "[Is Japan Back? Measuring Nationalism and Military Assertiveness in Asia's Other Great Power](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-east-asian-studies/article/is-japan-back-measuring-nationalism-and-military-assertiveness-in-asias-other-great-power/3D13F5478A015A355530EFC274493D60)." *Journal of East Asian Studies*, November 2, 2021.

 5. Colby, Elbridge and Lind, Jennifer. "[Japan must disavow pacifism and embrace collective defense](https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Japan-must-disavow-pacifism-and-embrace-collective-defense)." Nikkei Asia, June 18, 2021.



 

 



 

 

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