Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Announces New Japan Chair with Focus on Nuclear Disarmament
28 Marzo 2024 - 10:02AM
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace announced today that
it is establishing, with the support of the government of
Japan, a Japan Chair for a world without nuclear weapons. The work
conducted at Carnegie will focus on preventing conflict and
building international cooperation necessary for nuclear
disarmament. George Perkovich, a vice president and senior fellow
at Carnegie, will be the inaugural Chair. Mariano-Florentino (Tino)
Cuéllar, president of Carnegie, met with Shigeo Yamada, the
Japanese ambassador to the United States, to mark the occasion.
In expressing gratitude to Ambassador Yamada, Tino
Cuéllar noted that “the government of Japan recognizes the
importance of nuclear disarmament as few others do. So long as some
states—or at least their leaders—appear interested in using force
to achieve their territorial ambitions, other countries must
prudently maintain the means of deterrence while we all redouble
our efforts, including here at Carnegie with the new Japan Chair,
to reduce the danger nuclear weapons pose to humanity and the
planet.”
Following the meeting yesterday, the Japan embassy
in the United States shared a photo where Ambassador
Yamada and President Cuéllar “reaffirmed their close coordination
to advance the activities of a Japan Chair for a world without
nuclear weapons established at the CEIP.”
The Japan Chair reflects Carnegie’s understanding
that building a durable international peace requires cooperation
among the United States, Japan, and other partners on issues from
nuclear policy and regional security to trade, the climate
transition, and safe applications of artificial intelligence.
Consistent with its mission, Carnegie remains committed as a global
think tank to provide independent analysis and innovative policy
solutions in support of that goal.
George Perkovich, a Carnegie scholar since 2002, is
an award-winning author of numerous books on nuclear weapons
history, nonproliferation, and disarmament. He has advised the
U.S. and Japanese governments on nuclear policy and
related issues for many years.
The Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace is a nonpartisan global think tank with
operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
In a complex, changing, and increasingly contested world, the
Carnegie Endowment generates strategic ideas and independent
analysis, supports diplomacy, and trains the next generation of
international scholar-practitioners to help countries and
institutions take on the most difficult global problems and advance
international peace.
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Miriam Magdieli
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
+1 240 899 2998
miriam.magdieli@ceip.org