Join the Taiwan and Japan Studies programs for a presentation by Adam Liff, Professor of East Asian International Relations at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies on April 23.
Amid a rapidly changing balance of power and worsening frictions across the Taiwan Strait, this talk surveys the historical evolution of Japanese perspectives on the U.S.-Japan security alliance’s and the Japan Self-Defense Forces’ potential roles in a “Taiwan contingency.” Though Tokyo’s nuanced positions and policies vis-à-vis Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait have generally been overlooked in the U.S.-China-Taiwan centric academic literature and policy discourse, Japan is a critical front-line player.