Japan’s Role in a Fragmenting World, with Professor Michael Green

Japan’s Role in a Fragmenting World

with Professor Michael Green of the US Studies Centre

Join members and friends to hear from Professor Michael Green, CEO of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, about Japan's role in this new era of fragmenting relationships. Under former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, during the first Trump Presidency, Japan initiated a Free and Open Indo-Pacific framework that fostered deeper connectivity across the Pacific, Southeast Asia, and the Euro-Atlantic.

But can Japan sustain its leadership in the latest Trump era? Are Japan’s domestic politics stable enough to support an active diplomatic strategy? Amid ongoing uncertainty in Washington, can Japan help shape U.S. engagement in the Indo-Pacific? Most importantly, how can Japan and Australia work together to strengthen their partnership and engage with the U.S.?

This is a not-to-be-missed event providing food for thought for business and anyone interested in the Australia - Japan - US relationship.

The talk will be followed by Q&A and networking over drinks.

Registration is now open HERE. We look forward to seeing you.

SPEAKER BIO

Dr Michael Jonathan Green is Professor and CEO at the United States Studies Centre. A noted Japan expert, Dr Green was previously Senior Vice President for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and is on leave from Georgetown University where he was Director of Asian Studies and Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy. He served on the staff of the National Security Council (NSC) at the Bush White House from 2001 through 2005.

Dr Green has authored numerous books and articles on Japan and Indo-Pacific security, including most recently Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō. He received his master’s and doctoral degrees from Johns Hopkins University and did additional graduate and postgraduate research at Tokyo University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has a black belt in Iaido.