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VOSSE, Wilhelm M.
Professor

Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University

■ Academic Background

1.	1993/04～2000/05	Political Science, University of Hanover, Germany, Graduated, Dr. phil.
2.	1990/09～1991/06	Political Science, International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Studying abroad,
3.	1986/10～1992/12	University of Hanover, Germany, Graduated, M.A.

■ Professional Background

1.	2015/04～	Director, Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), International Christian University (ICU)
2.	2015/04～2017/03	Department Chair, Department of Politics and International Studies, International Christian University (ICU)
3.	2013/09～2014/08	Academic Visitor, St. Antony's College, Oxford University
4.	2012/04～2013/03	Department Chair, Department of Politics and International Relations, International Christian University
5.	2012/04～	Professor of Political Science, Department of Politics and International Studies, International Christian University (ICU)
6.	2011/04～2012/03	Major Coordinator, Peace Studies, International Christian University
7.	2008/04～2010/03	Major Coordinator, Peace Studies, International Christian University
8.	2008/07～2013/03	Director, Social Science Research Institute, International Christian University
9.	2007/09～2012/08	Chair and Co-Convener, UNU Global Seminar Japan, United Nations University
10.	2007/01～2007/07	Visiting Researcher, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
11.	2005/04～2006/03	Director, International Education Exchange Office, International Education Exchange Office, International Christian University (ICU)
12.	2006/04～2012/03	Associate Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, International Christian University (ICU)
13.	2000/09～2006/03	Assistant Professor, Division of Social Science, International Christian University (ICU)
14.	1995/09～2000/08	Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
15.	1994/10～1995/03	Lecturer, Institute of Political Science, University of Hanover (Germany)
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■ Present Specialized Fields

International relations, Politics (Key Word：Germany,Japan,security policy,Japanese foreign policy,defense policy,European Union)

■ Profile

Wilhelm is a professor of political science and international relations at the International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo, Japan, and between 2013 and 2014 a Visiting Academic at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and at St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford, UK. In 2007, he was visiting scholar at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University, USA.
Before joining ICU in 2000, he was a lecturer in the Department of Policy Management at Keio University (SFC), Japan, and from 1994 to 1995 a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Hanover, Germany. For a long time, his research was about social movements and the state-society relationship in Japan. Over the last decade, his research interests have been Japanese foreign and security policy and the public discourse and opinions about security and defense issues.
He is currently involved in a research project on EU-Japan cooperation on security problems, and is, among others, interested in the multinational cooperation in the counter-piracy missions off the coast of Somalia and the Gulf of Aden.

■ Main Course Titles

Japan's International Relations, Japanese Politics, Peace Studies I, Peace and Conflict Studies I, Security and Conflict Resolution

■ Books and Articles

1.	Book	Governing Insecurity in Japan: The Domestic Discourse and Policy Response (Collaboration) 2016/12
2.	Book	Broadening of security- and trade politics Japanese Foreign Policy 2015/2016 [In German] (Collaboration) 2016/11
3.	Book	National Security as a Dominating Factor of Japanese Foreign Policy 2014/2015 (Collaboration) 2015/11
4.	Book	From Abenomics to “proactive pacifism”: Developments in Japanese Foreign Policy 2013/2014 (in German) (Collaboration) 2014/11
5.	Book	Governing Insecurity in Japan. The Domestic Discourse and Policy Response (Collaboration) 2014/06
6.	Book	Heightened Threat Perception and Japan’s Anti-Militarism (Collaboration) 2014/06
7.	Book	From Noda to Abe: Japan's foreign policy reaction to increasing threat perception [In German] (Collaboration) 2013/11
8.	Book	The DPJ approach to enhance Japan’s diplomatic role: Japanese Foreign Policy 2011/12 [In German] (Collaboration) 2012/11
9.	Book	Comparing Japanese, Australian and European Responses to ‘out-of-area’ Security Challenges (Single) 2012/10
10.	Book	Im Land der untergehenden Sonne: Japan im Jahr 2030 [In the land of the setting sun: Japan in 2030] (Single) 2012/09
11.	Book	Japan: Public Opinion and the Political Reaction Concerning the Iraq War (Collaboration) 2012/05
12.	Book	Herausgefordert durch Wirtschaftskrise und Naturkatastrophe: Japanische Außenpolitik 2010/2011 Challenged by an Economic Crisis and a Natural Catastrophe: Japanese Foreign Policy 2010/2011 (Collaboration) 2011/11
13.	Book	Auf der Suche nach einer neuen globalen Rolle: Japanische Außenpolitik 2009/2010 [In Search of New Global Role: Japanese Foreign Policy 2009/2010] (Collaboration) 2010/11
14.	Book	Toward Theories and Policies of “Peace, Security, and Conviviality (Collaboration) 2010/03
15.	Book	Will Japan be the Britain or the Germany of Asia? Domestic Changes and Future Options for Japanese Foreign and Defense Policy (Single) 2010/03
16.	Book	Rationalität im Diskurs [Discourse on Rationality] (Collaboration) 1994/10
17.	Article	Learning multilateral military and political cooperation in the counter-piracy missions: a step towards de-centering of Japan's security policy? (Single) 2017/09
18.	Article	Opportunities and challenges of an independent deployer in informal organizational structures: Japan’s Contribution to the CGPCS (Single) 2014/11
19.	Article	Middle Power, Civilian Power, or New Power? Comparing Underlying Factors of the Security Policy in Japan and Germany (Single) 2012/09
20.	Article	Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security: From Pacifism to Realism? (Single) 2011/09
21.	Article	European Lessons for East Asia Community Building (Single) 2011/03
22.	Article	The German Peace Movement and its Influence on German Politics and Political Culture in the 1970s and 1980s (Single) 2010/03
23.	Article	Grundzüge und Tendenzen der japanischen Außenpolitik. Zwischen Weltwirtschaftskrise und nuklearer Bedrohung [Recent Developments and Trends in Japanese Foreign Policy. Between Global Economic Crisis and Nuclear Threat] (Single) 2009/11
24.	Article	Grundzüge und Tendenzen der japanischen Außenpolitik. Internationale Profilierung durch globale Herausforderungen [Recent Developments and Trends in Japanese Foreign Policy. Enhancing its International Profile by Addressing Global Challenges] (Single) 2008/11
25.	Article	Grundzüge und Tendenzen der japanischen Außenpolitik [Main features and tendencies of Japans foreign policy] (Single) 2007/11
26.	Article	Need for a New Environmental Movement: A Fragmented Environmental Movement in Times of Global Environmental Problems (Single) 2006/06
27.	Article	Are Americans from Mars and Japanese from Venus? New Approaches in Explaining Different Public Attitudes Towards Foreign Policy in Japan and the United States (Single) 2006/03
28.	Article	Civil Society in Times of Depolitizatio (Single) 2004/06
29.	Article	Japan - A Disaffected Democracy? On Political Trust, Political Dissatisfaction, Political Activity, and Environmental Issues (Single) 2002/11
30.	Article	The Long Protest for the Long River. The Protest Movement Against the Construction of the Estuary Dam in the Nagara River (Japan) (Single) 2001/03
31.	Article	The Emergence of a Civil Society in Japa (Single) 1999
32.	Article	Die Umweltbewegung im gegenwärtigen Japan - Strukturen, Probleme, Wirkungen [The Environmental Movement in Contemporary Japan. Structure, Problems, and Influence] (Single) 1998
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■ Academic Conference Presentation

1.	2016/06/26	Japan-EU Security Cooperation in Out-of-Area Missions: The Case of the Counter-Piracy Mission Off the Coast of Somalia (International Studies Association (ISA) Asia-Pacific Conference 2016)
2.	2016/06/03	Trying to Make Sense of Recent Changes in Japanese Security Policy: From Peace Studies to Critical Security Studies (“Rethinking Peace Studies”)
3.	2016/03/11	Japan’s New Security Partnerships (School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London)
4.	2016/02/20	Decentering after Developing Independent Political and Military Capabilities? Japan’s Counter-Piracy Mission and Beyond (“Non-American Directions in Japanese Security”)
5.	2015/06/26	The Japanese Counter-Piracy Missions and its Contribution to Abe’s Policy of ‘Proactive Pacifism’” (Hitotsubashi University, Department of Public Policy and Law)
6.	2015/02/26	Japan’s New Security Cooperation in Counter-Piracy Missions (University of Oxford)
7.	2014/11/17	Japan’s Expanding Global Security Footprint: Maritime Security and the Counter-Piracy Missions (University of Warwick, Department of Politics and International Studies.)
8.	2014/06/24	Increasing threat perceptions and anti-militarist norms in Japan (Book launch: Governing Insecurity in Japan: The Domestic Discourse and Policy Response)
9.	2014/06/16	EU-Japan Cooperation in the Development and Implementation of Renewable Energy (European Japan Advanced Research Network (EJARN) 2014 Conference “Approaches to Renewable Energy and Energy Security in Europe and Japan, Political and Economic Dimensions”)
10.	2014/03/03	Japan is Fighting Captain Hook: The Case of Japan's Counter‐Piracy Mission in the Gulf of Aden (University of Cambridge, East Asian Studies Seminar Series)
11.	2012/04/01	Renewable Energy Strategies Leading to Closer Europe-Japan Cooperation After 3/11 (Annual Conference of the International Studies Association (ISA))
12.	2011/09/29	The Impact of Out-Of-Area Missions on Interregional Security Cooperation: The Case of Europe and Asia-Pacific (International Studies Association Asia Pacific Inaugural Conference “Regions, States and Peoples in a World of Many Worlds”)
13.	2009/12/05	The Impact of the Cold War on German Political Culture in the 1970s and 1980s (Twenty Years After the End of the Cold War)
14.	2009/02/15	Normalization or Europeanization of Japan ("Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, New York, USA")
15.	2008/03/26	From U.S. Embrace to Normal State? Japan’s Public Discourse in the Aftermath of the Iraq War ("Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, USA")
16.	2008/01/12	Perceptions of Insecurity and its Impact on Policy Preferences ("ICU, Center of Excellence Symposium")
17.	2007/11/23	Heightened Threat Perception and the Future of Japan’s Anti-Militarism ("Annual Conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan, Berlin, Germany")
18.	2007/05/02	"Japan’s Anti-Militarism In Times of Crisis. Public Threat Perceptions and Its Significance For Policy Preferences in Japan Today, Cambridge" ("Contemporary Japanese Politics Study Group, Harvard University, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies")
19.	2007/04/12	"Globalization and threat perception in Japan, Germany and the United States" ("Annual Conference of the Mid-Western Political Science Association, Chicago ")
20.	2007/01/15	Insecurity is What We Make of It: A Comparative Look at Threat Perceptions and their Significance for Policy Preferences in Japan and the United States ("Violence, Instability and Peace Seminar, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway")
21.	2006/07/09	Are American from Mars and Japanese from Venus? A Comparative Look at Public Attitudes on Peace and Security in Japan and the United States ("World Conference of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), Fukuoka, Japan")
22.	2006/06/24	Are Americans from Mars and Japanese from Venus? A New Look at Militarism in Japan ("Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Conference Tokyo, Japan ")
23.	2006/06/15	Are American from Mars and Japanese from Venus? A Comparative Look at Public Attitudes on Peace and Security in Japan and the United States ("Annual Conference of the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, Pullman")
24.	2006/06	Insecurity is what we make of it. Threat Perception and Its Significance for Policy Preferences in Japan Today ("Workshop: Insecurity and Public Attitudes. Public Threat Perception, Risk Evaluation, and Policy Preferences in the Post-Industrial Era, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. ")
25.	2006/03	"Worldviews: Citizen Evaluations of Threat, Risk, and Security, and the Link to Political Action" ("Annual Conference of the Western Political Science Association, Albuquerque")
26.	2005/04	Changing Attitudes on International Engagement in the Japan and the USA ("Annual Conference of the Mid-Western Political Science Association, Chicago")
27.	2005/02/03	Japanese Environmental NGOs from a European Perspective ("EU-UNU Tokyo Global Forum, Bridging the Gap. Involving Citizens and NGOs in the Democratic Process, United Nation University, Tokyo")
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■ Lectures

1.	2017/03	The Impact of Japan’s New Security Partnerships (School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London)
2.	2016/02	Decentering after Developing Independent Political and Military Capabilities? Japan’s Counter-Piracy Mission and Beyond (Osaka University)
3.	2009/06	Wird Japan zum Großbritannien Asiens oder zum Deutschland Asiens? Beobachtungen zur außenpolitischen Entwicklung Japans im 21sten Jahrhundert
4.	2006/02	Civil Society Environmental Dialogue Japan - Germany

■ Academic Society Memberships

1.	2006/01～	International Studies Association, ISA, USA
2.	2001/01～	American Political Science Association, ASPA, USA
3.	2000/09～	Social Science Research Institute, ICU, Tokyo
4.	1995/01～	German Association of Political Science, DVPW, Germany
5.	1988/11～	German Association of Social Science Research on Japan, Germany

■ Research Topics, Funded Research, and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

1.	2017/04～2020/03	Cyberspace and International Relations: Security Cooperation between Japan, Europe and NATO (Key Word : 安全保障政策、日本政治、サイバーセクリティ、国際関係学、外交政策)
2.	2012/04～2015/03	Japan, Australia, EU and NATO Security Cooperation in Out-of-area Missions (Key Word : 外交政策 / 安全保障政策 / 日本 / 欧州連合 / 海賊 / NATO / 安全保障 / 国際関係 / 日本の外交政策 / 日本政治 / EU)
3.	2009/04～2012/03	Comparison of Japanese and German Foreign and Defense Policy after 9/11 (Key Word : 外交政策 / 防衛政策 / 世論調査 / ドイツ / 日本)

■ Exhibitions, Concerts and Athletic Meets

2004/11/01～2005/01/31

Survey on Attitudes and Global Engagement (SAGE) (Harvard Dataverse Network)

■ Websites

https://icu.academia.edu/WilhelmVosse

■ E-Mail Addresses

■ Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research Researcher Number

70327732

■ ORCID

0000-0002-5188-4227