In this research seminar, Yusuke Ishihara shows that Japan made major and important decisions on geopolitical, economic, and regional-political processes in the post-war era.
The 1970s witnessed significant changes to the post-war international order: the rise and fall of U.S.-Soviet détente, Sino-U.S. rapprochement, the crisis of the Bretton-Woods system/the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and shifts to a multilateral landscape in East Asia. In this research seminar, Yusuke Ishihara shows that Japan made major and important decisions on these geopolitical, economic, and regional-political processes. His PhD research explains the evolution of Japan’s post-war international standing, including how and why the vital post-war bargains that were embraced in the 1950s, when Japan was occupied by the U.S., were renegotiated by Tokyo during the 1970s.
Yusuke Ishihara is a Research Fellow of National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), specialising in Japan-Australia-US strategic relations. His publications include ‘Japan-Australia Defence Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region’, William Tow and Tomonori Yoshizaki (eds) Beyond the Hub-and-Spokes (NIDS, 2014) and Australia Chapter in East Asian Strategic Review 2013 and 2014. He concurrently works as Deputy Director in International Policy Division, Bureau of Defense Policy, Ministry of Defense Japan.