At GRIPS Forum on May 1, 2023, Dr. Keiichi Tsunekawa, Professor Emeritus, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), gave a lecture titled “The Advent of Emerging-economy Countries: Challenges for Japan”.

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Abstract:

This lecture will clarify economic and political characteristics of the emerging-economy countries (EeCs) and discuss what kind of challenges their advent poses to Japan. Profound changes in the distribution of economic and military power in the world have heightened the risk of decoupling the global economy. They also have strengthened the political/military surge of the statist-unilateralist trend, diametrically opposite to liberal internationalism that Japan endorses as principles governing the world. To cope with these challenges, Japan needs to seriously consider how to use its limited resources to reach out to and develop closer ties with the EeCs.

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Speaker: Dr. Keiichi Tsunekawa

　　　　　　　Professor Emeritus, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

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Speaker’s Profile:

Keiichi Tsunekawa is professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). He is also visiting professor at the GRIPS. Born in Chiba Prefecture of Japan in 1948, he studied political science at the University of Tokyo (M.A.) and Cornell University (Ph.D.). His recent publication includes Emerging states at crossroads (co-edited with Y. Todo, Springer, 2019) and Will the emerging states change the world?(in Japanese, Chukoshinsho, 2023) .

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