Commission of History of International Relations (CHIR), Japan Conference 2009,
“The Cold War and the Regional Integration: Comparative Studies on the History of International Relations between Europe and Asia”
Program
5th December 2009, (Saturday) Part I Comparative Studies of the Cold War in the International Relations between Europe and Asia
Key Note Speech 10:00-10:30 z Hirotaka WATANABE (Minister, the Japanese Embassy in France) « The Cold War and the International Relations in the Western Alliance in the Atlantic and the Pacific » z Kazuo OGOURA (President, the Japan Foundation) « Japan and Europe: a historical perspective »
Session 1. The Cold War from Regional Perspectives 10:30-12:00 Chair Nobuhiro SHIBA (Professor, University of Tokyo) Presenters z Alyan AGLAN (Assistant Professor, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre) « The former Resistance fighters facing European integration and the Cold War: 1943-1956 » z Shuichi KAWASHIMA (Lecturer, Meiji University) « From Weltpolitik to Europapolitik: Re-examining French Memorandum of September 1958» z Itsuki KURASHINA (Associate Professor, Akita International University) « Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the "Fifth-Country" Problem: US Policy against Nuclearization of West Germany »
Lunch 12:00-13:30
Session 2. The Continuation of the Cold War in Europe and Asia 13:30 -15:00 Chair Osamu ISHII (Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University) Presenters z Alfredo CANAVERO (General Secretary of CHIR, Professor, University of Milan) « Italy and the Cold War » z Hiroshi MOMOSE (Emeritus Professor, Tsuda College) « Small Nation's Two-Way Realism vs. Great Power Politics: Postwar Finland in the Eyes of a Japanese Researcher » z Olavi K. FÃLT (Professor, University of Oulu) « Europe in the World after the Second World War and Finland as a part of Europe »
Session 3. The Cold War and the Rise of Anti-Establishment Movements 15:00-16:30 Chair Takashi OSHIMURA (Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University) Presenters z Wilhelm VOSSE (Professor, International Christian University) « The German Peace Movement and its Influence on German Politics and Political Culture in the 1970s and in the 1980s » z Nobuo SHIMOTOMAI (Professor, Hosei University) « The Cold War in East Asia Era: With special emphasis on Soviet-DPRK Relations 1956-1972 » z Konstantin SARKISOV (Professor, Yamanashi Gakuin University) « The Russian Anti-Establishment Movement » Commentator Takashi OSHIMURA (Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University)
Reception at the Aogaku Kaikan 17:00-19:00
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6th December 2009 (Sunday) Part II Regional Integration and Disintegration in Europe and Asia General Chair Takashi OSHIMURA (Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University)
Key Note Speech 10:00-10:30 z Robert FRANK (President of CHIR) « French Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War »
Session 1. Twenty Years after the Collapse of the Cold War: Europe and Asia 10:30-12:00 Chair Yuichi MORII (Associate Professor, University of Tokyo) Presenters z « The EU's Policy Towards Russia and the Neighborhood, 1989-2009 » z Kumiko HABA (Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University) « Twenty Years after the End of the Cold War and the Reorganization of Central and Eastern Europe» z Min SHU (Associate Professor, Waseda University) « Leadership in Regional Integration: A Functional Approach » z Ryoko YOSHINO (Researcher, Aoyama Gakuin University Research Institute) « Construction of the Identity in European Integration and USA as the Other: 1969-1973»
Lunch 12:00-13:30
Session 2. East Asian Regional Cooperation 13: 30-15:00 Chair Motoko SHUTO (Professor, Tsukuba University) Presenters z David LOWE (Professor, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin Univ.) « The Colombo Plan and ‘Soft’ Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific: Australian and New Zealand Cultural Diplomacy in the 1950s and 1960s» z Alfredo C. ROBLES, Jr. (Professor, De La Salle University, Philippines) «Launching FTA Negotiations between ASEAN and the EU: Paradoxes and Dilemmas» z Hugues TERTRAIS (Professor, University of Paris) « Did the End of the Cold War boost Regionalism in Asia ? » Commentator Satoshi AMAKO (Professor, Waseda University)
Coffee Break 15:00-15:30
Session 3. Round Table Discussion 15:30-16:30 Chairs Hirotaka WATANABE (Minister, the Japanese Embassy in France) Kumiko HABA (Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University) Panelists z Robert FRANK (President of CHIR, Professor, University of Paris) z z Hiroshi MOMOSE (Emeritus Professor, Tsuda College) z Alfredo C. ROBLES, Jr. (Professor, De La Salle University, Philippines)
Closing words by Professor Takashi OSHIMURA 16:30
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