ICDS Webinar: Critical Underwater Infrastructure Security and Protection in Japan and in the Nordic-Baltic Region

Cooperation between Estonia and Japan has been widening and deepening since 1991. Since Estonia’s accession to the EU and NATO in 2004, bilateral cooperation has also been supplemented with cooperation through the EU-Japan and NATO-Japan formats. Japan is a highly valued partner to these organisations. In recent years, both countries have coalesced on several urgent international issues thanks to their shared core interest in maintaining the international status quo and containing the threats from large revisionist neighbours. Through the implementation of the project pertaining to those shared threats, the understanding on each region’s status quo of and countermeasures against these threats will be deepened.

ICDS hosted a virtual panel discussion by Estonian and Japanese experts addressing the strategies and techniques utilised by revisionist actors, and investigated policy responses and protective measures adopted by countries directly affected or at high risk from these threats.

Speakers:

Kitagawa Keizo (Ph.D., Captain, JMSDF (Ret)), Professor of the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University

Kawashima Shin, Professor of the Department of International Relations, the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Henrik Praks, Research Fellow at the ICDS

Marek Kohv, Head of Security and Resilience Programme at the ICDS

The discussion was be moderated by Toomas Hanso, Research Fellow at the ICDS.