On Friday, November 22, the Security Studies Program of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation co-hosted the event “Technology and Maritime Security Cooperation between NATO and the Indo-Pacific” with the Hudson Institute. The event was part of the “Cooperation between European and Indo-Pacific Powers in the US alliance system” project.
Project participants spoke across three distinct sessions. A video of the event is available
here.
Panel 1: Fleet design and next generation technologies
・Tomonori Yoshizaki, Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
・Giulio Pugliese, Director of the EU-Asia Project at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
・Kåre Groes Christiansen, CEO, Odense Maritime Technology, Denmark.
・Moderator: Timothy A. Walton, Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, Hudson Institute.
Panel 2: Defense industrial cooperation across the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific theaters
・Tsuneo Watanabe, Senior Fellow, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Tokyo, Japan.
・Shin-ae Lee, Research Fellow, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Tokyo, Japan.
・Thomas Wilkins, Associate Professor, The University of Sydney, Australia.
・Moderator: Timothy A. Walton, Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, Hudson Institute.
Panel 3: The Politics of NATO-IP4 Cooperation: How to Overcome Barriers to Progress
・Benedetta Berti, Head, Policy Planning, Office of the Secretary General, NATO HQ.
・Tsiporah Fried, Senior Advisor to the Vice-Chairman for Innovation and Strategy, French Joint Chiefs of Staff.
・Masafumi Ishii, Special Adjunct Professor, Gakushuin University and Former Ambassador of Japan to Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and NATO HQ.
・Moderator: Liselotte Odgaard, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute.
Event Details (Hudson Institute):
Technology and Maritime Security Cooperation between NATO and the Indo-Pacific | Hudson Institute
Public Event Video (Hudson Institute):
https://youtu.be/Pa7sIr3OZR0
