Assessing Japan’s October 2021 general elections from a Foreign Policy Persepctive and how it will affect EU-Japan Relations
On 1 December 2021, the EU launched its brand new infrastructural development scheme – “The Global Gateway”. By pledging to mobilise up to 300 billion EUR in investments by 2027, the EU is adding significant firepower to its toolkit of economic statecraft.
Who is Fumio Kishida, the new leader of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party succeeding Yoshihide Suga after his stepping down as Prime Minister? Standing for the 31 October 2021 general elections we look ahead and assess who he is and what he represents within the party and for the country.
As the EU is asserting itself as an Indo-Pacific player by working with existing multilateral groupings, it maintains a degree of strategic ambiguity, especially regarding China. While this ambiguous stance may limit cooperation with the Quad on traditional security issues, the Quad and the EU hold the potential to jointly deliver on several, cross-domain transnational issues.
Event report available for the conference organised by the Antall József Knowledge Centre in cooperation with the European Institute for Asian Studies on the changing geopolitical and geo-economic dynamics in East Asia
2021 marks the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the free trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union
The virtual meeting between the leaders of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) that took place on the 12th of March
Japan, caught in between North Korea’s growing ballistic and nuclear armament on one side and China’s rising power on the