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Omission Accomplished: the Iraq invasion in American and Japanese security narratives

Wednesday 18 January 2017 6.30pm to 8.00pm

Hosted by the Department of International Relations and Centre for International Studies

TWR1G.01, Tower 1,

Speaker

Professor Marie Thorsten

Chair

Professor William A. Callahan

This presentation will examine the significance of the Iraq invasion in Japanese and American domestic and bilateral security narratives at the start of the new Trump administration.

Marie Thorsten is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies at LSE and Professor at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. She teaches international relations and media studies and is the author of Superhuman Japan: Knowledge, Nation and Culture in US-Japan Relations.

William A. Callahan is Professor of International Relations at LSE.

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