Miller Conducts Workshop at Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies
Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was invited by the National Institute for Defense Studies at the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo, Japan to conduct a workshop on the Indo-Pacific and deliver a lecture to Japan’s Self-Defense Forces (SDF) officer enrollees.
The National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) is the Ministry of Defense’s core policy research arm while also offering training to high-level officers of the SDF. Miller, along with Commander Abhijit Singh of the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India, spoke at the two-day workshop on India’s challenges, China’s rise, and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific. She also gave a lecture on how history issues affect Indian foreign policy to the class of Colonel and Lt. Colonel officers from the SDF and overseas enrolled in NIDS’ training courses.
Manjari Chatterjee Miller is Associate Professor (with tenure) of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. She works on foreign policy and security issues with a focus on South and East Asia. She specializes in the foreign policies of rising powers, India and China. Her book, Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China (Stanford University Press, 2013) argues that the bitter history of colonialism affects the foreign policy behavior of India and China even today. She is currently working on rising powers, and the domestic ideational frameworks that explain their changing status.