Staff Profile

Previous Positions

Chair of Japanese Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1989-2002;
Director of the Newcastle East Asia Centre January 1989- September
1996

Visiting Research Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford
(October 1987-December 1988)

Assistant Director for Regional Security Studies, International Institute for Strategic Studies London (October 1984-September 1987) Research Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International Studies
IUHEI), PSIS, Geneva, Switzerland (September 1980-September 1984)

In-service trainee with the Commission of the European Community, DG
III, Brussels (1979-80) Research on Euro-Japanese economic relations

Memberships

Kokusai Mondai Kenkyujo (Tokyo)
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Asienkunde British Association for Japanese Studies Vereinigung fur sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung, Berlin
International Institute for Strategic Studies, London

Languages

German, French, Japanese, Chinese

Research Interests

Reinhard Drifte’s main research interests are Japan’s foreign and security policy, security issues in Northeast Asia, and EU-Northeast Asian relations. He is currently working on various issues in Japanese-Chinese relations, including territorial disputes

Other Expertise

Reviewer for Routledge publication proposals
Reviewer for Pacific Review article proposals
Research/lecture assignments for the German Development Agency (GIZ)

Postgraduate Supervision

International relations and security issues in Northeast Asia

• Drifte R. Japan's Security Relations with China since 1989 : From balancing to bandwagoning?. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
• Drifte R. The ending of Japan's ODA loan programme to China - all's well that ends well?. Asia-Pacific Review 2006, 13(1), 94-117.
• Drifte R. Japan's quest for a permanent UN Security Council seat: a matter of pride or justice?. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 2000.
• Drifte R. Japan's Eurasian diplomacy: power politics, resource diplomacy or romanticism. In: Akiner S, ed. The Caspian: Politics, Energy and Security. Abingdon: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004, pp. 278-294.
• Drifte R. The UK-Japan security relationship: Complementing each other's national strength. RUSI Journal 2003, 148(5), 68-71.
• Drifte R. Transboundary pollution as an issue in Northeast Asian regional politics (ARC Working Paper 12). London: Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics, 2003. Available at: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/asiaResearchCentre/publications/workingPapers.aspx.
• Drifte R. Japan's energy policy in Asia: Cooperation, competition, territorial conflicts. Dundee University, 2002. Available at: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cepmlp/journal/html/vol11/vol11-3.html.
• Drifte R. Japanese-Chinese security relations. Japan between the giants. Asia-Pacific Focus (Korea) 2002, VI(XXV), 130-151.
• Drifte R. The EU and North Korea. In: Akaha Ts, ed. The future of North Korea. London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 157-170.
• Drifte R. Britain, Japan and the European Union: Prospects for regional co-operation. RUSI Journal 2001, 146(4), 83-86.
• Drifte R. EU - Kita Chosen 'sekkin' no teiryu. Sentaku Magazine 2001, 38-39.
• Drifte R. Japan and multilateral approaches in East Asia. In: Constructing cooperative security in East Asia. 2001, Tsukuba University: TARA Center.
• Drifte R. Japanese - Chinese security relations: the Japanese way of engagement. Social Science Japan 2001, 21, 26-29.
• Drifte R. Japan's Eurasian diplomacy: Hard-nosed power politics, resource diplomacy or romanticism. In: Holzhausen A, ed. Can Japan globalize? Studies on Japan's changing political economy and the process of globalization in honour of Sung-Jo Park. Berlin: Springer/Physica Verlag, 2001, pp. 257-274.
• Drifte R. Looking forward - Prospects for multilateralism: Implications for Japan. In: Regnier P; Warner D, ed. Japan and multilateral diplomacy. London: Ashgate, 2001, pp. 185-199.
• Drifte R. The Perry Report and US-North Korea Relations. Asien: deutsche Zeitschrift fur Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur 2001, 79, 50-61.

• Drifte R. China and Japan. Between co-operation and competition. In: Breslin, S, ed. Handbook of China`s International Relations. London: Routledge, 2010, pp.138-146.
• Drifte R. The Future of the Japanese-Chinese Relationship: The Case for a Grand Political Bargain. Asia-Pacific Review 2009, 16(2), 55-74.
• Drifte R. Alignment despite antagonism: The US-Korea-Japan security triangle. Journal of Japanese Studies 2001, 27(1), 197-200.
• Drifte R. US impact on Japanese-Chinese security relations. Security Dialogue 2000, 31(4), 449-462.
• Drifte R. From 'Sea of Confrontation' to 'Sea of Peace, Cooperation and Friendship'? - Japan facing China in the East China Sea. Japan Aktuell 2008, (3), 27-51.
• Drifte RWF. Japan's Energy Policy in Asia: Cooperation, Competition, Territorial Disputes. Oil, Gas and Energy Law 2005, 3(4).