研究テーマ
The EU and the Indo-Pacific, human rights, connectivity, SDGs
代表者
Paul Bacon教授 (国際学術院）
(1)研究目的
This year the main project I will work on is the Jean Monnet Network project EUIP: The European Union in the Indo-Pacific. For this project we will investigate the expectations of the new European Union Indo-Pacific Strategic by elite policymakers in ten different Indo-pacific countries, including Japan.
(2)研究の意義
This is a prestigious European Commission-funded project. But it is also part of our partnership with Canterbury University NZ as part of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Core-to-Core Program, ‘The European Union and Japan in a Fluid Global Liberal Order’ (grant number: JPJSCCA20180002). I am Deputy Director of this project, and Canterbury University are designated as one of the core partners.
(3)運営方法
For this project in AY 2023 I will interview 12 leading Japanese experts on the EU-Japan relationship. We have designed the research questionnaire, and when the interviews are finished, we will create transcripts and then analyze the findings, first for individual countries in the project, and then engage in comparative analysis of findings from different countries. Pandemic conditions permitting, we will present our preliminary findings at the EUSAAP conference in Bangkok in June 2023. We will then hold a major workshop at Waseda in December 2022, where considered findings will be presented. Both of these events will be co-organized by my WIAPS Study Group.
(4)期待される成果
The country project team leaders, including myself, will prepare and submit an article summarizing all project findings to a leading high-impact journal publication. Also, the project team will produce a co-edited research monograph on all of the project findings. We have already secured an agreement to publish this book from a leading book series on EU Studies. This is the GEM (Globalization, Europe, Multilateralism) Series run by the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. It is therefore strongly anticipated that the project will lead to several high-impact publications.
There are several other projects I am working on, which are also likely to lead to WIAPS workshops and publications.
– I currently hold a JSPS JSPS Kiban C fund, and I am continuing my research on the EU as a diffuser of human rights and environmental protection norms in Southeast Asia.
– On behalf of GSAPS and WIAPS, I am named as the Scientific Officer for two major multi-million Euro EU project applications, GEM-DIAMIOND and NAVIGATOR, in partnership with the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, another of the core partners in the JSPS Core-to-Core project.
– I will also be working with colleagues from the Waseda Qatar University team on a project on ‘The Gulf States and the Indo-Pacific’.
