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CJR Event Program (PDF) JAPAN'S LEADERSHIP IN THE LIBERAL INTERNATIONAL ORDER Centre for Japanese Research Workshop January 24 - 25, 2020 CK Choi Building, room 120 1855 West Mall, UBC Japan's Leadership in the Liberal International Order An international workshop organized by the Centre for Japanese Research at the Institute of Asian Research We would like to acknowledge that the University of British Columbia (Point Grey Campus) is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam) People. Organizers The Centre for Japanese Research (CJR) is one of the five regional centres under the Institute of Asian Research. CJR promotes research topics related to Japan and its relationship to the world. CJR presents lectures, seminars, workshops, and symposia on topics related to Japan. htps://cjr.iar.ubc.ca/ The Institute of Asian Research (IAR) has been the premier Asia-focused research institute and think tank in Canada since 1978. IAR is the focal point for Asia policy and current affairs at the University of British Columbia. IAR hosts five regional centres Introduction Since 2016, Japan has shown remarkable leadership on several dimensions of global and regional economic governance, including trade governance (CPTPP, EU-Japan FTA, RCEP, Japan-US trade agreement, WTO reforms), economic and data governance (Osaka G20 in 2019, including Osaka track on data with trust, quality infrastructure, global finance), regional rules-based order (Free and Open Indo Pacific, stabilized relations with China, strategic engagement with India and ASEAN), and environmental governance (oceans, climate). Key Research Questions: How significant is this new phase of Japanese international leadership in historical perspective? What factors are driving this new global leadership? Where has Japan's leadership been limited, and what are the constraints? What implications and potential for Japan-Canada relations? Focal Themes: Strategic repositioning of Japan in the international system at a time of disruption. CPTPP Other Trade diplomacy: EU-Japan, RCEP, etc. G20 themes: global financial governance (FSB, IMF, WB), data with trust and AI, quality infrastructure, etc.. Global environmental governance: climate, oceans, biodiversity, IWC Free and Open Indo Pacific (FOIP) Conference Host and Organizer: Yves Tiberghien, Co-Director of the Centre for Japanese Research [email protected] Schedule of Events Fri day, January 2 4, 2020 10:30-10:50 Opening Ceremony at UBC 10:50 - 12:30 Panel 1: The Strategic Picture - Explaining the Burst in Japanese Leadership in Support of the Rules-Based Order 14:00 - 15:45 Panel 2: Global Trade Governance: CPTPP, EU- Japan FTA, and RCEP 16:15 - 17:45 Panel 3: International Organizations and Global Economic Governance Sa turday, Januar y 25, 2020 09:15 - 11:00 Panel 4: Free and Open Indo-Pacific (1): Economic Pillars 11:15 - 12:15 Keynote Lecture: "Time to reconsider or go ahead?: Corporate Governance Reforms in Japan under Abenomics" presented by Professor Miyajima Hideaki (Vice President, Waseda University) 13:30 - 15:00 Panel 5: Free and Open Indo-Pacific (2): Security of the Commons 15:00 - 16:00 Concluding remarks and future publication plans Opening Remarks Friday, January 24 | 10:30 - 10:50 Opening Ceremony at UBC Introduction given by Centre for Japanese Research Co-Director, Professor Yves Tiberghien Welcoming remarks on behalf on the University of British Columbia given by Vice Provost International, Professor Murali Chandrashekaran Welcoming remarks on behalf of the Institute of Asian Research given by Director, Professor Timothy Cheek. Keynote remarks given by His Excellency Ambassador Kawamura Yasuhisa. Panel 1: The Strategic Picture - Explaning the Burse in Japanese Leadership in Support of the Rules-Based International Order Friday, January 24 | 10:50 - 12:30 Chair: Honorary Professor Joseph Caron (former Ambassador to Japan) Presenters: T.J. Pempel, University of California Berkeley: “Japan caught in the Economic-Security Dilemma” Harukata Takenaka, GRIPS: "New Normal!!: Proactive Japan and Transformed Domestic Politics” Joseph Caron, Honorary Professor at UBC and Former Ambassador of Canada to Japan: “Will there be a bilateral Canada-Japan foreign and security policy agenda for the new decade?” Discussant: Mireya Solis, Brookings Institution Panel 2: Global Trade Governance: CPTPP, EU-Japan FTA, and RCEP Friday, January 24 | 14:00 - 15:45 Chair: Don Campbell, Former Ambassador to Japan, former Deputy Minister (Canada) Presenters: Vinod Aggarwal, University of California, Berkeley: “Toward a Bipolar Economic Order? US Trade Strategy in the 21st Century” Mireya Solis, Brookings Institution: “Rescuing trade multilateralism: Japan’s mission impossible?” Grace Jaramillo, APFC: “CPTPP in the midst the of US-China Trade War. How Japan has performed so far and what has been the consequences for its leading Global Value Chains across the Pacific Rim.” Yves Tiberghien, UBC Political Scince and CJR/IAR/SPPGA: “Rules and Order as National Interest: Explaining Japan’s Leadership in the CPTPP, EU-Japan FTA, and RCEP” Hiroki Takeuchi, Southern Methodist University: "Is the Liberal International Order Dead? Global Value Chains and CPTPP" Discussant: Leslie Armijo, Simon Fraser University Panel 3: International Organizations and Global Economic Governance Friday, January 24 | 16:15 - 17:45 Chair: Saori Katada, University of Southern California Presenters: Phillip Lipscy, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto: "Japan and International Organizations in the Liberal International Order" Alan Alexandroff, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto: "Old and the New: Can Japan lead the way to a new Liberal Order?" Masahiro Kawai, University of Tokyo; Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia; and Former ADBI Dean, "Global Economic Governance: A Japanese Perspective" Discussant: Vinod Aggarwal, University of California, Berkeley Panel 4: Free and Open Indo-Pacific (1): Economic Pillars (infrastructure, trade, energy, and digital connectivity issues) Saturday, January 25 | 09:15 - 11:00 Chair: Grace Jaramillo, APFC Presenters: Masahiro Kawai, University of Tokyo; Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia: “FOIP and BRI: Is convergence possible?” Saori Katada, University of Southern California: “Partnership for Quality Infrastructure; developmental atavism or new liberal order?” Jeff Kucharski, Royal Roads University: “Japan, FOIP and the geopolitics of energy in the Indo-Pacific” Discussant: Alan Alexandroff, Munk School, UofT Keynote Lecture Saturday, January 25 | 11:15 - 12:15 Keynote lecture presented by Professor Hideaki Miyajima. Prof. Miyajima is the Executive Vice President for Financial Affairs at Waseda University. He is also a professor of Japanese Economy at Waseda's Graduate School of Commerce. Topic: "Time to reconsider or go ahead?: Corporate governance reforms in Japan under Abenomics." Panel 5: Free and Open Indo-Pacific (2) - Security of the Commons Saturday, January 25 | 13:30 - 15:00 Chair: Jeff Reeves, Vice President, APFC Presenters: Kristi Govella, University of Hawaii at Manoa: "Coping with Competition in the Global Commons: Japan in the Outer Space, Cyberspace, and Maritime Domains." Sayuri Romei, Public Policy Fellow, Wilson Center, “Japan’s global leadership and alignment with the United States and Europe.” David Welch, University of Waterloo, "Engaging China's hot-button maritime and territorial disputes" Discussant: Paul Evans, SPPGA Professor, UBC Contributors Alan S. Alexandroff is the Director of the Global Summitry Project at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto as well as the Editor of Global Summitry. The Journal includes several podcast series including the ‘Now’, ‘Summit Dialogue’ and ‘Shaking the Global Order’ series. Dr. Alexandroff has long manned the blog post Rising BRICSAM. Dr. Alexandroff focuses his research work on the contemporary global governance architecture. His most recent article is: ‘Liberal Theory, liberal context and the G20’ a chapter in the edited volume by Steven Slaughter, The G20 and International Relations Theory. Edward Elgar. 2019. Vinod “Vinnie” Aggarwal is Travers Family Senior Faculty Fellow and Professor in the Department of Political Science, Affiliated Professor at the Haas School of Business, and Director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Business and Politics. He has held fellowships from the Brookings Institution, Rockefeller Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, East-West Center, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Japan Foundation as an Abe Fellow. Dr. Aggarwal has authored or edited 21 books; his latest is Responding to the Rise of China. He has also published over 130 articles and book chapters. His current research examines comparative regionalism, industrial policy in high technology, disaster management, and the political economy of great power competition. Professor Aggarwal received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Leslie Elliott Armijo is an Associate Professor, School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, and an expert on large emerging powers, especially in Latin America and South Asia. Recent publications include “The Political Economy of Development Finance in Latin America” (Oxford Research Encyclopedias,
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