Asia's Strategic Challenges: In Search of a Common Agenda

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James Steinberg, Deputy Secretary of State, US and Ambassador Yukio Satoh, Former President of The Japan Institute of International Affairs

‘Global strategic challenges as played out in Asia’

On 1-3 June 2009, IISS and the Japan Institute for International Affairs convened the second IISS-JIIA Tokyo Conference. Held at the International House in Tokyo, the forum brought together 50 scholars, senior policymakers, military officials and journalist from ten countries to exchange views on the theme of ‘Global strategic challenges as played out in Asia’.

The conference featured keynote dinner addresses from Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone and from Minister of Defence Yasukazu Hamada as well as a special luncheon presentation by US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg.

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