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| 1 | More Weapons than Windmills: Japan’s Military and Energy Policy Response to Russia’s Attack on Ukraine , Czech Journal of International Relations, 58( 2), , Jun. 2023, https://doi.org/10.32422/cjir.733 |
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| 7 | The North Korean abduction issue: emotions, securitisation and the reconstruction of Japanese identity from ‘aggressor’ to ‘victim’ and from ‘pacifist’ to ‘normal’  , The Pacific Review, 28( 1), 71- 93, Jan. 2015, https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2014.970043 |
| MISC |
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| 1 | Den japanske kapitalismens vekst og fall [The rise and fall of Japanese capitalism] , Gnist, 51( 3), 66- 75, Sep. 2023
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| 2 | The errors of NATO’s East Asia engagement , East Asia Forum, , , Aug. 2023
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| 3 | Book review (in Norwegian). ‘Hitoshinsei no shihonron [Capital in the Anthropocene], by Saitō Kōhei. Published under the title ‘”Nedvekstkommunisme vil redde verden!” [‘Degrowth communism will save the world!’]’. , Gnist, 51( 1), 82- 87, Mar. 2023
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| 4 | Kapitalismen dreper planeten [Capitalism is killing the planet] , Dagsavisen, , , Dec. 2022
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| 5 | Book Review: 'Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet' by Matthew T. Huber , Capital and Class, 46( 4), , Nov. 2022
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| 6 | No thaw in sight for Japan–North Korea relations , East Asia Forum, , , Sep. 2022
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| 7 | Book review: Hitoshinsei no Shihonron [Capital in the Anthropocene] by Saito Kohei , Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, , , Jul. 2022
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| 8 | Is Japan's postwar pacifism dead? , The Diplomat, , , Jul. 2022
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| 9 | As Japan sanctions Russian coal, it is high time to kick the habit altogether , Climate Home News, , , Apr. 2022
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| 10 | Can Japan's "new capitalism" help its workers? , The Diplomat, , , Feb. 2022
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| 11 | A Biden summit with Kim Jong-un would boost Kim’s legitimacy – so what? , Turkish Politics Quarterly, , , Feb. 2022
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| 12 | Can Japan's "new capitalism" help its workers? , The Japan Times, , , Feb. 2022
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| 13 | A Turning Point for Japan-US Climate Cooperation? , The Diplomat, , , Oct. 2021
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| 14 | Populism in Japan: Fascist, neoliberal and leftist variants (2) , Sōka Hōgaku, 50( 3), 59- 79, Mar. 2021
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| 15 | Populism in Japan: Fascist, neoliberal, and leftist variants (1) , Soka Hogaku, 50( 2), 27- 44, Dec. 2020
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| 16 | National Identity and Japanese Revisionism: Abe Shinzō’s Vision of a Beautiful Japan and Its Limits , Social Science Japan Journal, , , Jul. 16, 2020 |
| 17 | Japan’s growing dependence on coal , East Asia Forum, , , Mar. 2020
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| 18 | Korean Reunification: Can the Dream Be Realized? , UI Brief, , , 2020
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| 19 | The North Korean abduction of Japanese citizens and the rise of the Japanese right , Sōka Hōgaku, 49( 2), 7- 21, Dec. 2019
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| 20 | The identity politics driving the Japan-South Korea trade war , East Asia Forum, , , Nov. 2019
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| 21 | Marketization in North Korea: Scenarios for economic, political and social change , UI Paper, , , 2019
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| 22 | A North Korean détente may intensify Sino-Japanese friction , The Asia Dialogue, , , Jul. 2018
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| 23 | The Trump-Kim summit – high risks and high rewards , Utrikesmagasinet, , , May. 2018
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| Conference Activities & Talks |
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| 1 | Business, politics and global change: the roots of Sweden-DPRK normalization, The Nordic countries' relations with the DPR Korea (Turku University), Nov. 24, 2023, ,
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| 2 | Sveriges relation med Nordkorea – 50 år av diplomati [Sweden’s relations with North Korea – 50 years of diplomacy], Open seminar at Medelhavsmuseet (Stockholm), Aug. 30, 2023, ,
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| 3 | Sweden’s role on the Korean Peninsula, 1950-1985, Closed roundtable at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Stockholm), Aug. 30, 2023, ,
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| 4 | The positive consequences of superpower détente: The case of Swedish-North Korean normalization in 1973, Peace Forum 2022: The U.S.-China strategic competition and its impact: Perspectives from South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, Nov. 18, 2022, ,
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| 5 | What shaped Sweden-Korea relations in the 1970s?, What shaped Sweden-Korea relations in the 1970s?, Aug. 18, 2022, ,
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| 6 | Hate on the bookshelves: Explaining the prevalence of anti-Korean hate books in Japanese book stores, Japanese Association for International Korean Studies, Mar. 27, 2021, ,
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| 7 | Temporal identities and security policy in postwar Japan, Online book talk at King's College London, Mar. 22, 2021, ,
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| 8 | Capitalism in the workers’ paradise: How marketization is (and isn’t) changing North Korea, Online guest lecture, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Mar. 19, 2021, ,
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| 9 | Online roundtable participant, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, EUrAsia 2021: the Pandemic, the Biden administration and their impact on European and Asian regionalisms, Mar. 18, 2021, ,
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| 10 | Japan's discursive struggle over climate change, VSJF Fachgruppentagung 2020 (German Association for Social Science Research on Japan), Nov. 21, 2020, ,
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| 11 | Abductions, nuclear weapons, and identity: Japan-North Korea relations in the postwar period, Guest lecture (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia), Nov. 13, 2020, ,
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| 12 | A Critical Look at the Norwegian “Peace Nation”: Lessons for Japan, Peace Education Forum in Asia: Exploring Common Program for Peace Education among Asian Universities (Hanshin University, South Korea), Jan. 15, 2020, ,
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| 13 | Breaking out of the postwar regime: How discursive struggles shape Japanese security policy, Contemporary Japan Group (Institute of Social Science, Tokyo University), Oct. 4, 2019, ,
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| 14 | North Korea – Myth and Reality, Swedish Institute of International Affairs Seminar, Mar. 12, 2018, ,
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| 15 | Long live pacifism! Narrative power and the demise of Japan’s pacifist model in international politics, The Power of Narratives in East Asian International Relations (The Swedish Defence University and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs), Dec. 7, 2017, ,
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| 16 | Japanese Pacifism is Dead, Conference: Japan’s Changing Diplomatic and Security Practice (Joint Research Workshop in London between King’s College London and Freie Universität Berlin), Oct. 26, 2017, ,
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| 17 | North Korea from a Japanese perspective: The impact of the abduction issue, North Korea and Japan: A Troubled Relationship (Axel & Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, Sweden), Oct. 12, 2017, ,
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| 18 | North Korea and its neighbors, A Night of Conflicts (Utrikespolitiska föreningen Växjö, Sweden), Sep. 13, 2017, ,
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| 19 | The Death of Japan’s Pacifism, Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society (Sweden), May. 18, 2017, ,
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| 20 | Kim Jong-un’s first five years in power, North Korea and East Asian Security (Swedish Institute of International Affairs), Mar. 17, 2017, ,
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| 21 | Japan’s Temporal Others: How the Past Has Shaped Japanese Postwar Security Policy, Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society (Norway), Apr. 28, 2016, ,
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| 22 | Discursive Power Struggle: How Discourses Enable and Constrain the US, Japan and China, 55th Annual Convention, International Studies Association (ISA, Canada), Mar. 26, 2014, ,
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| 23 | What Peace Enables: From the “Normalisation” of Sino-Japanese Relations to the “Normalisation” of Japanese Security Policy, Global Power Shifts (Swedish Institute of International Affairs), Aug. 28, 2013, ,
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| 24 | Japanese identity and the abduction issue: from “aggressor” to “victim”, from “pacifist” to “normal” country?, Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society (Denmark), Mar. 14, 2013, ,
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