Recent Presentations
Renewable Energy Strategies Leading to Closer Europe-Japan Cooperation After 3/11”, to be presented at: Annual Conference of the International Studies Association (ISA), San Diego, USA, April 1-4, 2012.
“The Impact of Out-Of-Area Missions on Interregional Security Cooperation: The Case of Europe and Asia-Pacific”, presented at: .International Studies Association Asia Pacific Inaugural Conference “Regions, States and Peoples in a World of Many Worlds”, Brisbane, Australia, September 29-30, 2011.
“The Impact of the Cold War on German Political Culture in the 1970s and 1980s”, paper presented at “Twenty Years After the End of the Cold War, Aoyama Gakuin University International Symposium, Tokyo, December 5, 2009
“From U.S. Embrace to Normal State? Japan’s Public Discourse in the Aftermath of the Iraq War”, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, USA, March 26 – 30, 2008
“Normalization or Europeanization of Japan”, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, New York, USA, February 15 – 18, 2009.
“Heightened Threat Perception and the Future of Japan’s Anti-Militarism”, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan, Berlin, Germany, November 23-25, 2007
"Japan’s Anti-Militarism In Times of Crisis: Public Threat Perceptions and Its Significance For Policy Preferences in Japan Today”, paper presented at Harvard University, Contemporary Japan Politics Study Group. May 2, 2007
“Globalization and threat perception in Japan, Germany and the United States”, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Mid-Western Political Science Association, Chicago, 12-15 April 2007
World Conference of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), July 9-12, 2006, Fukuoka, Japan. Paper presented, “Are American from Mars and Japanese from Venus? A Comparative Look at Public Attitudes on Peace and Security in Japan and the United States”.
“Insecurity is what we make of it. Threat Perception and Its Significance for Policy Preferences in Japan Today“, paper presented at the Workshop: Insecurity and Public Attitudes. Public Threat Perception, Risk Evaluation, and Policy Preferences in the Post-Industrial Era, June 27 – July 2, 2006, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.
“Are Americans from Mars and Japanese from Venus? A New Look at Militarism in Japan”, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Conference Japan, Tokyo, June 24-25, 2006.
“Changing Attitudes on International Engagement in the Japan and the USA”, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Mid-Western Political Science Association, Chicago, 6-9 April 2005
“Are American from Mars and Japanese from Venus? A Comparative Look at Public Attitudes on Peace and Security in Japan and the United States”, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Pullman, WA, USA, June 15-17, 2006
“Worldviews: Citizen Evaluations of Threat, Risk, and Security, and the Link to Political Action”, paper co-presented with Andrew Appleton (WSU) at the Annual Conference of the Western Political Science Association, Albuquerque, NM, USA, 16-18 March 2006.
“In need of a new environmental movement? Localized movements and global environmental problems”, paper presented at the Asian Studies Conference Japan, Tokyo, 23-24 June 2003
“Japan's Civil Society Revisited”, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan, Tutzing, Germany, 21-23 November 2003.
“Japan in the 1990s. Changes in Political Participation”, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan. Halle, Germany, 21-23 November 2002
“Protesting the Construction of River Dams in Postwar Japan”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Washington D.C., 5 April 2002
“The Long Protest for the Long River. The Protest Movement Against the Construction of the Estuary Dam in the Nagara River”, paper presented at the Grassroots Activism and the Environment in Asia (Conference) at the ICU Institute for Asian Cultural Studies, Tokyo, November 2000.
”Doitsu no seito to seitonaishiminshugi ni miru shimin to seiji no kankei. The Significance of Inner-Party Democracy for the Relationship Between Citizens and Politics in Germany”, paper presented at the International Conference on Local Political Parties, Kanagawa Network, Yokohama, Japan, November 1998.