# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Does Japan have a grand strategy?
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 13 Oct, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Tue, 13 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: A talk by Professor Saori Katada, UC Santa BarbaraAbout this EventJapan is a liminal power, straddling contrasting identities in terms of its power status—from small power to great power—shaped by shifts in material capabilities, international standing, and overlapping social and geographic affiliations (e.g. Western, modern, and Asian). Using a historical institutionalist approach, this talk traces the evolution of Japan’s grand strategy from the Meiji period (1868) to the 2020s. How did Japan's core decision-makers construct - or reconstruct - the country's grand strategy at critical junctures in time, including in the contemporary era characterised by the "Free and Open Indo-Pacific" strategy?Speaker: Prof Saori Katada, UC Santa BarbaraCommentator: Prof John Nilsson-WrightModerator: Dr Giulia GarbagniSpeaker bio:Saori N. Katada is the Louis G. Lancaster Chair of International Relations at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Political Science. Previous to her current appointment at UCSB, she was Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California. Her 2026 book with Kei Koga, Japan’s Grand Strategy: Liminal Power in an Uncertain World, was published by Oxford University Press. Her single-authored books include: Japan's New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific (Columbia University Press, 2020), and Banking on Stability: Japan and the Cross-Pacific Dynamics of International Financial Crisis Management (University of Michigan Press, 2001), which received the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Book Award. She served as the vice president of the International Studies Association and on the editorial team of the Review of International Political Economy. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her B.A. from Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo).
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cambridge/does-japan-have-a-grand-strategy/100002002621902018
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- **Event Highlights**: 
  - Duration: 2 hours
  - Location: 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College, CB3 9EU
  - Languages: English

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- **city**: Cambridge
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College, CB3 9EU
- **lat**: 52.2007174
- **long**: 0.1133306
- **full address**: 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College, CB3 9EU, Silver Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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- **Q**: When and where is Does Japan have a grand strategy? being held?
  - **A:** Does Japan have a grand strategy? takes place on Tue, 13 Oct, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Tue, 13 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm at 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College, CB3 9EU, Silver Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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  - **A:** Does Japan have a grand strategy? is organized by Centre for Geopolitics.

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