[ARI Working Paper Series No. 20]

The Rise of China and East Asian Security: A Japanese Perspective

By SOEYA Yoshihide

Keio University

Notes on Contributor

SOEYA Yoshihide is Professor of political science and international relations at the Faculty of Law of Keio University.  He also serves as the Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies of the same university.  His areas of interest are politics and security in East Asia, and Japanese diplomacy and its external relations in the region and the world.  He received Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1987, majoring in world politics. 

Recently, Dr. Soeya served as a member of the Japanese Government’s Council on Defense and Security Policies in a New Age, appointed by former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in early 2010, as well as the Japan-Korea Joint Research Project for a New Age launched by then-Prime Minister Taro Aso and President Lee Myung-bak in early 2009.  He also serves on the Boards of Directors of the Japan Association of International Studies, serves as Editor-in-Chief of International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (Oxford Journals), and is a member of the Advisory Group of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Council of the Asia Society in New York.

The 1st East Asian Community Forum

RISING CHINA AND THE FUTURE OF EAST ASIAN COMMUNITY

Date: May 28, 2011