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WESSELS DAVID
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Research announcements Number of the published data : 16
No. Type of announcement Announcement theme Conference name Announcement date
1 Verbal Presentation A Consideration of Religious Issues in the Foreign Policy of Modern Japan Asian Religious Values and Social Justice 2011/09/27
Announcement theme A Consideration of Religious Issues in the Foreign Policy of Modern Japan
Conference name Asian Religious Values and Social Justice
Summary
"Religion" itself was a challenge to Japan's foreign relations from the late nineteenth century. Christianity could not be ignored, and Japan's Shinto traditions were used for national mobilization and the expansion of empire. Japan's re-emergence as a transformed nation-state after its defeat in World War II involves a domestic settlement which is based on freedom of religions and tolerance, with a largely "secular" stance in public life. Internationallly, it promotes a cooperative foreign policy based on a commitment to peaceful settlement of disputes and substantial contributions of foreign assistance. The explicit basis for these policies is humanistic rather than religious. In an era of globalization, can Japan (and other countries) maintain positive engagement with the world without a more "public religious diplomacy"?
 
2 Verbal Presentation Foreign Relations and Foreign Religions: The Case of Japan International Political Science Association World Congress, Santiago, Chile 2009/07/13
Announcement theme Foreign Relations and Foreign Religions: The Case of Japan
Conference name International Political Science Association World Congress, Santiago, Chile
Summary
A study of how foreign relations are conducted with reference to religions that are considered "foreign" to the country.
 
3 Verbal Presentation Religion in International Politics International Political Science Association (IPSA) Conference "International Political Science: New Theoretical and Regional Perspectives" 2008/04/30
Announcement theme Religion in International Politics
Conference name International Political Science Association (IPSA) Conference "International Political Science: New Theoretical and Regional Perspectives"
Summary
Survey of the research on religion in international politics.
 
4 Poster Presentation Can Politics Learn from Religions? The American Political Science Association Annual Meting, Illinois, U.S.A. 2007/08/31
Announcement theme Can Politics Learn from Religions?
Conference name The American Political Science Association Annual Meting, Illinois, U.S.A.
Summary
Paper and poster presentation at the American Political Science Association Annual Meting
 
5 Verbal Presentation Global Politics and Particular Religions International Political Science Association World Congress, Fukuoka, Japan 2006/07
Announcement theme Global Politics and Particular Religions
Conference name International Political Science Association World Congress, Fukuoka, Japan
Summary
Presentation at a panel of the International Political Science Association in July 2006 after one year of organizing the panel (Panel on "Religions facing gloabalisation"
 
6 Verbal Presentation Capacities for Global Politics: Religions and Cultures in the Pacific Rim International Studies Association 46th Annual Convention, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2, 2005 2005/03/02
Announcement theme Capacities for Global Politics: Religions and Cultures in the Pacific Rim
Conference name International Studies Association 46th Annual Convention, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2, 2005
Summary
How religions and cultures affect the political capacities of countries, both domestically and internationally.
 
7 Verbal Presentation Religion, International Politics, Security Oral presentation at the 2004 Autumn Conference of the Japan Peace Studies Association (Keisen Women's University, November 6, 2004) 2004/11/06
Announcement theme Religion, International Politics, Security
Conference name Oral presentation at the 2004 Autumn Conference of the Japan Peace Studies Association (Keisen Women's University, November 6, 2004)
Summary
Oral presentation (in Japanese) at the 2004 Autumn Conference of the Japan Peace Studies Association. Accompanying paper written in English.
 
8 Verbal Presentation Human Rights and Human Security in Asia Japan Association of International Relations, Spring Meeting, Tooyoo Eiwa Women's University 1998/05/16
Announcement theme Human Rights and Human Security in Asia
Conference name Japan Association of International Relations, Spring Meeting, Tooyoo Eiwa Women's University
Summary
A study of the interconnection between human rights and human security in Asia
 
9 Verbal Presentation Migration and National Identity in an Integrating Europe Seminar at Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame. 1995/05
Announcement theme Migration and National Identity in an Integrating Europe
Conference name Seminar at Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame.
Summary
Changing patterns of migration in Europe and impact on identities of people
 
10 Verbal Presentation The Promotion of Human Rights through Diplomacy and Dialogue 1991/03
Announcement theme The Promotion of Human Rights through Diplomacy and Dialogue
Conference name
Summary
Dialogue and diplomacy as foreign policy tools for the promotion of human rights
 
11 Verbal Presentation Human Rights in a North-South Framework: Historical Convergence? International Political Science Association, XIV World Congress, Washington, D.C. 1988/09
Announcement theme Human Rights in a North-South Framework: Historical Convergence?
Conference name International Political Science Association, XIV World Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary
Problems and prospects for international human rights in a world marked by divisions between North and South
 
12 Verbal Presentation Advancing Human Rights: Japan, East Asia, and the World International Political Science Association, XIII World Congress. 1985/07
Announcement theme Advancing Human Rights: Japan, East Asia, and the World
Conference name International Political Science Association, XIII World Congress.
Summary
Presentation at the Human Rights Study Group, International Political Science Association, XIII World Congress. In particular, the prospects for advancing humana rights internationally in East Asia.
 
13 Verbal Presentation Universality and Particularity in Human Rights: Trends in Global Politics and the Reception of Human... Japan Association of International Relations, Nihon University 1984/10
Announcement theme Universality and Particularity in Human Rights: Trends in Global Politics and the Reception of Human Rights in Contemporary Society
Conference name Japan Association of International Relations, Nihon University
Summary
A study of how human rights have both universal and particular dimensions
 
14 Verbal Presentation Human Rights in the World Today Task Force Meeting on Peace and Global Transformation, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan 1982/03
Announcement theme Human Rights in the World Today
Conference name Task Force Meeting on Peace and Global Transformation, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan
Summary
Survey of the state of human rights achievements in the world
 
15 Verbal Presentation Endogenous Intellectual Creativity and the Emerging New Iternational Order, with Special Reference to... Sophia International Workshop,Tokyo, Japan 1981/11
Announcement theme Endogenous Intellectual Creativity and the Emerging New Iternational Order, with Special Reference to East Asia
Conference name Sophia International Workshop,Tokyo, Japan
Summary
 
16 Verbal Presentation Global Human Rights? Concepts East and West Journal of Conflict Resolution Seminar, Yale University 1979/04
Announcement theme Global Human Rights? Concepts East and West
Conference name Journal of Conflict Resolution Seminar, Yale University
Summary
A conceptual study of international human rights based on differences in philosophical foundations in East and West
 
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