Guest Lecture: Alliances in a Changing World
On May 20, I had the pleasure of giving a lecture on Japan’s historical alliances (the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, the Russo-Japanese Alliance, the Tripartite Pact, and the US-Japan Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security), theories of alliance formation (balance of power, balance of threat, bandwagoning, liberal hegemony), and theories of burden-sharing (buck-passing, alliance dependence, burden-sharing dilemma, abandonment-entrapment dilemma) with University of Amsterdam students. I particularly enjoyed walking through how international relations theories can help us understand and make predictions about the real world and getting engaging and thoughtful questions from the students!
The slide shows the Middle East because we were discussing Walt’s Origins of Alliances, but to be clear, I am a Japan and Indo-Pacific security expert!
Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn if you would like me to join your class as a guest lecturer on any of these topics!