Japan’s Defense Engagement in the Indo-Pacific

Nanae Baldauff is Partners across the Globe Fellow at the NATO Defense College (Rome, Italy), the first Japanese national to be selected for this position. She is Associate Research Fellow at UNU Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Bruges, Belgium, and Senior Researcher at Keio Research Institute at SFC, Japan. She has a Ph.D. in political science (Ghent University, Belgium) and holds a master’s degree in European governance (University of Luxembourg). She serves as Director for NATO and EU of the International Security Industry Council of Japan. Nanae is a recipient of the Japan Foundation fellowship. Her area of interest is foreign and defense policy (Japan, Indo-Pacific, and Europe), security communities, defense industry cooperation, and security in and from space.

• Introduction.- A Framework for the Study of Defense Engagement.- The Evolution of Japan’s Postwar Defense Policy.- Japan and Australia: From a Distant Country to a Quasi-ally.- Japan and India: Growing Partnership in the Shadow of a Rising China.- Japan and the Southeast Asian Region: Building Habits of Cooperation.- Japan and Europe: Indivisibility of Security.- Conclusion.