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【河野太郎】留学生がコロナ水際対策で入国できない「日本人だろうが留学生だろうがちゃんと隔離をして検査やればいいだけの話」【切り抜き】 youtu.be/_nFH9mSwces YouTubeより

Proudly congratulate Stella Zilian successfully defending doctoral thesis "Technological change and inequality. A quantitative study of social inequality in times of digitalization"#WUecon Wilfried Altzinger, Heinz D. Kurz, Andrea Grisold @KarinHeitzmann wu.ac.at/economics/news…

🚨 UI Brief alert!🚨 Our associated fellow Erik Isaksson has written our latest UI brief – that analyses the values discourse emphasizing democracy, human rights, the rule of law and freedom used by the Japanese government 🇯🇵 Read the UI brief here👇 ui.se/butiken/uis-pu…

Deeply saddened to learn about this tragic loss of Professor Nakayama 中山 俊宏 🖋 Toshihiro Nakayama. He was a great scholar and a mentor who inspired me to pursue a think tank career around US-Japan relations. まだ信じられないです。心からご冥福をお祈り申し上げます。 asahi.com/articles/ASQ59…

Met former PMs 安倍晋三 and Yoshiro Mori. We had wonderful discussions on various topics. The Japan-India association is playing a commendable role in boosting ties between our nations.

日本の民主主義、大丈夫？

Russia Day was celebrated at RU embassy in Tokyo today. In attendance was ex-PM Hatoyama Yukio & upper-house member Suzuki Muneo. Hatoyama gave speech in which he regretted that US did not heed RU warnings about NATO expansion. Suzuki pledged that he’ll always be friend of RU.

Nguyen Ha (Vanderbilt University Political Science) and I just published in IR of Asia Pacific, on the collective #emotions that shape #Japan’s security policy, especially #resentment and #status #misrecognition. We analyze interviews with 18 leading 🇯🇵 conservatives. It’s OA! academic.oup.com/irap/advance-a…

Why the War in Ukraine is not about Democracy versus Authoritarianism- ⁦Michito Tsuruoka / 鶴岡路人⁩ is absolutely spot on. Very worth a read to understand how specific narratives about democracy -and not openness- can be very counterproductive. rusi.org/explore-our-re…

安倍氏は「攻めの外交」で成果を出したように見られがちです。しかし。実際には、日米同盟が崩壊しかねないという切迫感を深め、日本の安保力の強化を急いだ日々でした。その内幕を描いています。 nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO…

I learned some things about feline poxvirus as an EXAMPLE to talk about a similar virus. If a cat gets a catpox, it can spread to cat people. If there’s an outbreak & only cat folks can be tested, it will seem like ONLY cats or cat people get it. Cats start getting dirty looks.

いろいろ議論は分かれそうな気がするが、この論文は外から見た社会科学的分析として読む価値あり。日本の近年の安全保障政策の変化は、憲法第九条によって日本が劣位におかれているという意識（resentment）が原動力になっているという見立て。 academic.oup.com/irap/advance-a…

”Vad betyder ’journalistrugby’?” - ser frågan ställas indignerat, men det är fel fråga. Fråga istället ”hur fungerar ett ord som ’journalistrugby’?” Funktionen hos sortens ord - som självklart inte har någon vedertagen betydelse - är att 1) provocera 2) skapa oro 3) trolla. >

すごい。ジョンソンが休暇先から帰国する飛行機がガトウィック空港に着陸するシーンを、「スムーズな着陸です」などと生中継。どうなっているんだ・・・。ジョンソン劇場に乗っ取られ気味。英国、大丈夫か。

Why & how have US FP elites embraced the depiction of China as an ideological threat even though other discursive formulations were equally plausible & available? Find out in my article in @JIRD_jour with Björn Jerdén which is finally out! link.springer.com/article/10.105…

Had a wonderful time last weekend at the EAJS Conference presenting my research as part of the panel 'Narrative, Status, and Heroes behind Abe's Japan' alongside Giulio Pugliese, Giulia Garbagni, and Erik Isaksson Met amazing people and learned a lot about Japan #EAJS2023

Avspänning nyckeln till att kunna upprätta relation mellan Sverige och Nordkorea konstaterar UI:s forskare på #uievent.

What drives #Japan’s #militarization, and what are some of the other trends and developments in its foreign #security policy and domestic #politics? Read our Trend Report 5 by Erik Isaksson 👇 oiip.ac.at/cms/media/tren…

Vienna standing up against against far-right extremism, racism & far-right deportation plans. #wien #wienliebe #democracy #humanrights #DemokratieVerteidigen

Happy to share our new policy analysis: Identity Continuities, Far-Right Acquiescence, and the “New” and the “Old”: Finnish and Swedish NATO Accession and Neutrality by our Ernst Mach Fellow Erik Isaksson 👇 oiip.ac.at/publikation/id…