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『Think Global, Gear Local :
Norms and Ideas of Risk in Counterterrorism』
日時: 平成１８年５月１２日（金）１４：３０～１６：３０
会場: 経済学部第二校舎棟５階 ５４５共同研究室
司会: ロバート・アスピノール教授 （本学経済学部）
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David Leheny spoke about some ways in which the Japanese state has adopted global norms on counterterrorism for its own political purposes. For example the perceived increase in the risk of terrorist attack that followed 9/11 led Japan to pass new laws. Even though Japan was not a target of the 9/11 attackers, the Japanese government wanted to follow the USA’s new tough stance on counterterrorism. Japan wanted to be perceived as a “normal country” that could defend itself. One of the new laws revised the rules on what the Coast Guard could do if they encountered a “suspicious vessel”. In December 2001 the Coast Guard chased a “suspicious vessel” outside of Japanese waters for the first time. The chase resulted in the vessel being blown up (probably by a self-destruct device). It was later raised and put on display at a maritime museum. Actually it seems that the vessel was probably engaged in drug-smuggling rather than in any terrorist activity. Nevertheless the Japanese state could justify increasing its powers over international waters by appealing to international norms on counterterrorism. These new powers can then be used in all sorts of ways.
(by Robert Aspinall)
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