Japan’s maritime security policy in the Indo-Pacific with Professor Alessio Patalano, Veerle Nouwens and Nick Childs

Robert Ward hosts Alessio Patalano, Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, Veerle Nouwens, the Executive Director of IISS-Asia, and Nick Childs, the IISS Senior Fellow for Naval Forces and Maritime Security. 

Robert, Alessio, Veerle, and Nick discuss Japan’s maritime security policy in the Indo-Pacific.

Topics discussed include: 

• Japan’s positioning of maritime security policy in relation to other domains; 
• China’s perspective on Japan’s growing maritime capabilities; 
• Japan’s strategic navigation between different layers of partnerships; 
• The impact of Trump’s possible re-election on Japan’s maritime security policy. 

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Date recorded: 04 April 2024 

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