and then we will soon have another distinguished speaker, Dr Régis Dandoy, a specialist of electoral studies and electoral observation\monitoring. It features electronic voting!

though it happened last month, we were very honored to host a talk by Dr. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, one of Latvia’s top strategic minds and the leading China expert in the Baltic States.

Had an opportunity to share my own career experiences with the younger generation of JSPS research fellows

On March 10, We welcomed Dr. Vytautas Kuokštis (Vilnius University, TSPMI) for the RCAST Security Seminar at the University of Tokyo, titled ‘The Political Economy of the Lithuanian Growth Puzzle’.

roles.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/news/2025...

visiting Tallinn (then Rīga later) to see the post "Baltic Synchro" society.

If you've been interested in public opinion surveys on Japan's diplomacy and security, here we have one (The University of Tokyo, ROLES, SAFER project). We will continue this on a regular basis in the future, sometimes including survey experiments.

roles.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/publicati...

Fresh from the oven! My article about Nationalism and environmentalism from the global perspective: A comparative survey analysis of eco‐nationalism, in @n_nationalism (Nations and Nationalism)
doi.org/10.1111/nana...

Wishing you all a good holiday season.