Dear Sir/or Mme,
We have a following international Conference at Aoyama Gakuin University in this weekend.

Title :
CHIR(Committee of the History of International Relations) International Conference in Tokyo.

The Cold War and the Regional Integration --Comparative studies on the International Relations between Europe and Asia--

Place :
Soken Bldg. 12th floor, Grand Hall(International Conference Hall)
Aoyama Gakuin University
map:
http://www.aoyama.ac.jp/other/map/aoyama.html
access:
http://www.aoyamagakuin.jp/access2.html

Time: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, 5, 6, December, 2009.

If you wish to join, please send your Name, Affiliation, and E-mail address to info@ri.aoyama.ac.jp

Thank you.

Prospects(PDF) Program(PDF)

CHIR　Japan Conference 2009
5―6 December 2009 (Interim)

“The Cold War and the Regional Integration: Comparative Studies
on the History of International Relations between Europe and Asia”

Program
5th December 2009, (Saturday)
Part I  Comparative Studies of the Cold War in the International
Relations between Europe and Asia

10:00-11:00　Key Note Speech
Hirotaka WATANABE (Minister, the Japanese Embassy in France)
« The Cold War and the International Relations in the Western Alliance
in the Atlantic and the Pacific »
Kazuo OGOURA (President, the Japan Foundation)
« Japan and Europe: a historical perspective »

11:00-12:30
Session 1. The Cold War from Regional Perspectives
Chair　 Nobuhiro SHIBA (Professor, University of Tokyo)
Presenters
Alyan AGLAN (Assistant Professor, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre)
« The former Resistance fighters facing European integration and the
Cold War: 1943-1956 »
Shuichi KAWASHIMA (Lecturer, Meiji University)
« From Weltpolitik to Europapolitik: Re-examining French Memorandum of
September 1958»
Itsuki KURASHINA (Associate Professor, Akita International University)
« Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the "Fifth-Country" Problem: US Policy
against Nuclearization of West Germany »

12: 30-14:00　Lunch

14:00 -15:30
Session 2. The Continuation of the Cold War in Europe and Asia
Chair　　Osamu ISHII (Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University)
Presenters
Alfredo CANAVERO (General Secretary of CHIR, Professor, University of Milan)
« Italy and the Cold War »
Hiroshi MOMOSE (Emeritus Professor, Tsuda College)
« Small Nation's Two-Way Realism vs. Great Power Politics: Postwar
Finland in the Eyes of a Japanese Researcher »
Olavi K. FÃLT (Professor, University of Oulu)
« Europe in the World after the Second World War and Finland as a part
of Europe »
Nobuo SHIMOTOMAI (Professor, Hosei University)
« The Cold War in East Asia Era: With special emphasis on Soviet-DPRK
Relations 1956-1972 »

15:30-16:30
Session 3．The Cold War and the Rise of Anti-Establishment Movements
Chair      Takashi OSHIMURA (Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University)
Presenters
Wilhelm VOSSE (Professor, International Christian University)
« The German Peace Movement and its Influence on German Politics and
Political Culture in the 1970s and in the 1980s »
Konstantin SARKISOV (Professor, Yamanashi Gakuin University)
« The Russian Anti-Establishment Movement »
Commentator　Takashi OSHIMURA (Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University)

17:00-19:00
Reception at the Aogaku Kaikan


6th December 2009 (Sunday)
Part II  Regional Integration and Disintegration in Europe and Asia
General Chair   Takashi OSHIMURA (Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University)

10:00-10:30　Key Note Speech
Robert FRANK (President of CHIR)
« French Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War »

10:30-12:00
Session 1． Twenty Years after the Collapse of the Cold War: Europe and Asia
Chair　 Yuichi MORII (Associate Professor, University of Tokyo)
Presenters
Fraser CAMERON (Director, the EU Russia Centre)
« The EU's Policy Towards Russia and the Neighborhood, 1989-2009 »
Kumiko HABA (Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University)
« Twenty Years after the End of the Cold War and the Reorganization of
Central and Eastern Europe»
Ryoko YOSHINO (Researcher, Aoyama Gakuin University Research Institute)
« Construction of the Identity in European Integration and USA as the
Other: 1969-1973»
Min SHU (Associate Professor, Waseda University)
« Leadership in Regional Integration: A Functional Approach »

12:00-13:30　Lunch

13: 30-15:30
Session 2． East Asian Regional Cooperation
Chair　　Motoko SHUTO (Professor, Tsukuba University)
Presenters
David LOWE (Professor, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin Univ.)
« The Colombo Plan and ‘Soft’ Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific:
Australian and New Zealand Cultural Diplomacy in the 1950s and 1960s»
Alfredo C. ROBLES, Jr. (Professor, De La Salle University, Philippines)
«The Integration of Southeast Asia and an ASEAN-EU FTA»
Hugues TERTRAIS (Professor, University of Paris)
« Did the End of the Cold War boost Regionalism in Asia ? »
Commentator  Satoshi AMAKO (Professor, Waseda University)

15: 30-16:00　Coffee Break

16:00-17:00
Session 3． Round Table Discussion
Chairs　Hirotaka WATANABE (Minister, the Japanese Embassy in France)
Kumiko HABA (Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University)
Panelists  
Robert FRANK (President of CHIR, Prossor, University of Paris)
Fraser CAMERON (Director, the EU Russia Centre)
Hiroshi MOMOSE (Emeritus Professor, Tsuda College)
Alfredo C. ROBLES, Jr. (Professor, De La Salle University, Philippines)

17:00　Closing words by Professor Takashi OSHIMURA
−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−

Commission of the History of the International Relations (CHIR), Japan Conference in 2009

Project of the Regional Reorganization between the Enlargement of the EU and East Asia
(Aoyama Gakuin Research Institute)
Project of the Comparative studies on Regional Integration between Europe and Asia(JSPS GASR)

Supported by: Japan Foundation

−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−