Joint Conference on Comprehensive Security in the Indo-Pacific (Tokyo)

As part of the Joint Conference on Comprehensive Security in the Indo-Pacific, we invite you to attend the Tokyo Public Seminar on Cooperation for Comprehensive Security in the Indo-Pacific Region: Regional Leadership and Burden Sharing.

The Tokyo seminar forms part of a two-city conference held in Tokyo and Kyoto, as a collaboration between Kyoto University and Security & Defence PLuS, organised by the Kajima Institute of International Peace (KIIP).

"Comprehensive Security" is an approach to protecting citizens from various threats, including not only military threats, but also energy crises, food shortages, natural disasters, and other challenges. This concept, proposed by Masataka Kousaka, a professor at Kyoto University and others at a study group established by Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira in the 1970s amid the international turmoil caused by the Nixon Shock and the Oil Crisis, has regained importance as the world faces renewed turmoil due to changes in U.S. policy and increasingly complex international issues such as climate change.

How should we address the various issues encompassed by comprehensive security? What impact will the second Trump administration have on comprehensive security in the Indo-Pacific region? How can AUKUS and the Quad cooperate in the context of comprehensive security?

Experts from Japan, India, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States—the countries comprising AUKUS and the Quad—will join government officials and other key stakeholders to discuss these issues and exchange policy-oriented solutions.

Featured speakers include:

• Hideshi Tokuchi (Former Vice-Minister of Defense for International Affairs)
• Taguchi Seiichiro (Deputy Director-General / Deputy Assistant Minister (Ambassador), European Affairs Bureau, MOFA)
• Emil Levendoğlu (Minister and Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Tokyo)
• Michito Tsuruoka (Professor, Keio University)
• Hiroshi Nakanishi (Professor in International Politics, Kyoto University)
• Takashi Sekiyama (Professor in International Political Economy, Kyoto University)
• Nobuyuki Hiraizumi (President of the Kajima Institute of International Peace)
• Ian Langford (Executive Director of Security & Defence PLuS)
• Alessio Patalano (Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia, King’s College London)

We will be holding closed dialogues on Cyber Security and on Stable Supply and Safe Sea Lanes for Energy, Rare Metals, and Food earlier in the day. These sessions are by invitation only, but if you would like to request an invite, please contact lauren.mellows@plusalliance.org.

A second public seminar will also be held at Kyoto University on Monday, 17 November (register here).

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Security & Defence PLuS is the flagship program of PLuS Alliance, a global partnership which combines the strengths of three leading research universities on three continents – Arizona State University, King’s College London, and the University of New South Wales – to solve global challenges. Security & Defence PLuS deepens this partnership, advancing research, education, and policy to support statecraft in the spirit of the AUKUS trilateral agreement.