Berger Gives Talks on U.S.-Japan Relations
Thomas Berger, Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, gave three recent talks on the state of relations between the United States and Japan.
Berger spoke at the University of Toronto Department of Political Science on December 15, 2017 on “Necessary Illusions: Identity, Interests and the US-Japan Alliance in the Age of Trump.”
On November 30, 2017, Berger spoke as part of a panel entitled “US-Japan Reconciliation in a Global Context” at the conference “Post-War U.S.-Japan Reconciliation: The Strategic Benefits of Healing,” held at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C..
Berger delivered a talk entitled “Taking up the Sword again? Shinzo Abe, Donald Trump and the Changing East Asian Security Environment,” at the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales at the Université de Montreal on November 17, 2017.
A new book chapter from Berger, entitled The Triumph of Hope over Experience: The False Promise of Japanese Soft Power in East Asia, also recently appeared in print (James D. J. Brown and Jeffrey Kingston, eds. Japan’s Foreign Relations with Asia, New York and London: Routledge, 2017).
Thomas Berger joined the Department of International Relations in 2001. Previously, he taught for seven years at the Johns Hopkins Department of Political Science in Baltimore. He is the author of War, Guilt and World Politics After World War II, Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan and is co-editor of Japan in International Politics: Beyond the Reactive State.