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The new strategic balance in North-East Asia
28-29 Sept. 2006, Paris. With the support of the DAS (MinDef) and the DGCID (MoFa).
At a time of change of government in Tokyo and new tensions in the Korean peninsula with the announcement of a nuclear test, both these questions took on a particular importance.
Asia Centre, in partnership with the JIIA and in cooperation with the IHEDN, brought together at the Ecole Militaire a panel of experts and top ranking politicians from Japan, France and Europe. These included the former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Koji Kakizawa, the directors of IHEDN, V.A. François Dupont, and JIIA, Makio Miyagawa, the chairman of the Board of IISS, F. Heisbourg, and FRS director G. Schlumberger. The question of a new strategic balances in North-East Asia was considered from the perspectives of military modernisation and China’s strategic stance, Sino-Japanese relations (cooperation and strategic interests) and from a sense of history’s legacy and how to overcome it. The exchange ended with a roundtable on the roles of North-East Asia in the Community of East Asia...
With the following Japanese participants: Takashi Kawakami (U. Takushoku), Tsutomu Kikuchi and Seiichirô Takagi (U. Aoyama Gakuin), Tsutomu Ôkawa (Japanese Embassy in China), Katsuhiko Suetsugu (Asia Pacific Energy Forum) and European participants: C. W. Hughes (U. Warwick) R. Dujarric (NIPS /JIIA), J-M. Bouissou and K. Postel-Vinay (CERI), E. Seizelet (CNRS / IAO), B. Tertrais (FRS), J-P. Cabestan, G. Delamotte and F. Godement, C.A. A-F. de Saint-Salvy, P. Boone and L. Frouart (DAS), P. Lévy and M. Briens (CAP).