Joseph Ferguson
Joseph Ferguson is a consultant for LMI in McLean, VA and an affiliate professor of international relations at the University of Washington.
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Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama Meets President Medvedev in New York
Japan’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, fresh from the resounding victory of his party in the Japanese Diet elections, traveled to New York in late September and met (among others) with...
The Ural Summits: BRIC and SCO
On June 15-16 Russia managed to hold two major heads-of-state summit meetings in the city of Yekaterinburg. That Yekaterinburg was chosen as the site is perhaps fitting, because it marks...
Territorial Dispute Takes Second Place to Russian-Japanese Economic Cooperation
On February 18 Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso visited Sakhalin Island, becoming the first Japanese leader to do so since the end of the Second World War. He was there...
SAKHALIN OIL AND GAS PROJECTS: WHAT IS BEHIND RUSSIA’S COERCIVE BEHAVIOR?
On September 18 a Russian high court ordered the temporary suspension of operations at the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas development project due to environmental considerations (Asahi Shimbun, September 18). The...
Al Qaeda’s Threat to Japan: Tokyo’s Wake Up Call to the War on Terrorism
In October of 2003 Japan received its first overt threat from al Qaeda. A videotape was released on which Osama Bin Laden purportedly promised suicide attacks against the United States...
SUBMARINE INCURSION SETS SINO-JAPANESE RELATIONS ON EDGE
Another maritime incident in the waters of the East China Sea near Okinawa has once again enflamed Sino-Japanese relations, which have been sensitive of late. On November 10, a Chinese...
The Diaoyutai-senkaku Islands Dispute Reawakened
On January 15, 2004 patrol boats from the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Forces (JMSDF) allegedly attacked two Chinese fishing vessels in waters near the disputed Diaoyutai/Senkaku Islands, according to a...
Al Qaeda’s Threat To Japan: Tokyo’s Wake Up Call To The War On Terrorism
In October of 2003 Japan received its first overt threat from al Qaeda. A videotape was released on which Osama Bin Laden purportedly promised suicide attacks against the United States...