研究テーマ
欧州連合、人権、地域組織、欧州連合とインド太平洋, 国際安全保障
European Union, human rights, regional organization trade, the EU and the Indo-Pacific, international security
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 will continue to be the Jean Monnet Network project EUIP: The European Union in the Indo-Pacific, which is entering its final year. For this project we are investigating 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 has also been 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 was Deputy Director of this project, and Canterbury University were designated as one of the core partners.
(3) 運営方法
For this project in AY 2024 I interviewed 12 leading Japanese experts on the EU-Japan relationship. I designed the research questionnaire, created transcripts and analyzed the findings, first for individual countries in the project, and then engaged in comparative analysis of findings from different countries. I recently held two events in connection with this project, both of which were co-organized by my WIAPS Study Group’ an online workshop in December with members of the academic research team to debate findings, and a major event at the EU Delegation in January, attended by 20 senior EU and EU member state practitioners, where I presented the project findings.
(4) 期待される成果
I have been invited to prepare and submit an article summarizing the EUIP project findings for Japan to a special issue of International Affairs, 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. We will hold our concluding symposium and workshop for this project in Brussels in September 2025. This will be branded as a co-organized WIAPS event.
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 Kiban C fund, and I am continuing my research on the EU as a diffuser of labour rights in Southeast Asia.
-On behalf of GSAPS and WIAPS, I am named as the Scientific Officer for the major multi-million Euro EU project applications GEM-DIAMIOND, in partnership with the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, another of the core partners in the JSPS Core-to-Core project.
-I am also working with colleagues from the Waseda Qatar University team on a project on ‘The Gulf States and the Indo-Pacific’. We are aiming to produce a two-volume study on Regional Security Complex Theory and the Indo-Pacific. We have already received and edited 13 book chapters manuscripts, and are commissioning six more for August 2025. We will hold a large workshop in October 2025, which will also be branded as a co-organized WIAPS event, and aim to publish the first of the two books in AY2025. From October 2025 this will become the main project I am working on.
-I am also awaiting the outcome of an Kakenhi Kiban B application, for project funding to continue and expand my research on RSCT.
-I will also apply for JSPS bilateral funding for similar research with colleagues from Chulalongkorn University.
Based on my research for this project, I currently have a co-authored journal article submission under review with The Pacific Review, a leading IR journal.
