Breaking New Ice: Japan-Russia Relations and the Arctic, Implications for the United States

A conversation with:
Shoichi Itoh
Senior Fellow
Institute of Energy Economics
Dr. James D.J. Brown
Professor of Political Science
Temple University, Japan Campus
Dr. Sheila A. Smith
John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Studies
Council on Foreign Relations
Dr. Elizabeth Wishnick (Moderator)
Senior Research Scientist, China and Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Division
Center for Naval Analyses
This series of five expert dialogues examines US collaboration with Indo-Pacific partners in sustainable resource development and governance in the Arctic, in the context of concern over the potential for deepening Sino-Russian collaboration in resource governance and trade. The fifth and final dialogue in our series examines perspectives from two Japan-based scholars who will discuss how the Arctic figures into Japan-Russia relations, with a particular emphasis on the energy sector, and from a US expert on Japanese foreign policy and US-Japan relations, who will discuss the implications for the US. The three speakers will also address how changing geopolitics in the Arctic, especially the Sino-Russian partnership and the rise of China in the Indo-Pacific, impacts Japan's foreign relations with Russia and the US.