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Rajaram Panda

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Archive data: Person was Research Fellow at IDSA from January 2009 to January 2012

Joined IDSA
January 2009
Expertise
Japan’s Foreign and Economic Policy, Security and Strategic Perspectives, Resource Diplomacy, India-Japan Relations, Emerging Power Equilibrium in the Asia-Pacific Region, Prospects of Security Architecture in the Asia-Pacific Region, Diaspora and migration remittance issues.
Education
Masters in History from the University of Delhi (1972), M.Phil (1976) and Ph.D. (1981) in Japanese Studies from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Current Project
Strategic Dimension of India-Japan Relations: Convergence and Divergence of Interests in the Evolving Asia-Pacific Security Architecture
Background
Dr. Panda is the head (Cluster Coordinator) of China and East Asia Cluster. He is a leading Japan specialist from India. Prior to joining the IDSA, he was ICSSR Fellow and Research Associate at the Centre for East Asian Studies, SIS, JNU; Foreign Editor of Newstime, Hyderabad; and Chief Program Officer, The Japan Foundation, New Delhi. He has presented a number of scholarly papers at national and international seminars and conferences in India, Japan and Australia on Japan’s economic, political and strategic issues as well as on the State of Japanese Studies in India. He is a frequent contributor to leading Indian dailies on current issues of India-Japan relations. He has published 2 books (sole authoured), 4 co-edited books, contributed Chapter to 9 books, and over 65 research articles in professional journals in India, Japan, the US and England. Dr. Panda was Visiting Fellow at Hitotsubashi University, Japan (1979), Australian National University, Canberra (1979), and Asahi Shimbun Foundation Fellow at Reitaku University, Japan (1992-93).
Select Publications
Pacific Partnership: Japan-Australia Resource Diplomacy (Rohtak: Manthan, 1982).
Japan and the Third World: Political and Economic Enter-Actions, 1980s and 1990s (New Delhi: Lancer Books, 1994).
(co-edited with Yoo Fukazawa), India and Japan in Search of Global Roles (New Delhi: Bibliophile South Asia, 2007)
“Japan’s Cultural Diplomacy: A Perspective,” Reitaku International Journal of Economic Studies (Kashiwa, Japan), vol. 12, no. 2, September 2004.
“India and East Asian Community Concept,” Japanese Studies (Abingdon, Oxon, England), vol. 26, no. 1, May 2006.
“India and Japan in Search for Strategic Partnership,” 2nd Netaji Subhash Bose Commemorative Souvenir (Netaji Subhash Bose-INA Trust, New Delhi, 2008).
Other publications

Senior Fellow
Email:-rajaram_panda[at]yahoo[dot]com
Phone:-+91 11 2671 7983

Publication

Injecting New Dynamism in US-Australia Ties

Labour Party Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, has been in office for nearly one and a half years after his unexpected victory over John Howard in late 2007. For almost three decades after World War II, Australia systematically repudiated the idea of being identified as an Asian country, until the resource boom in the early 1970s that catapulted Australia as one of the major resource exporters to resource-importing countries such as Japan and now China. Since then, Australia’s external orientation has undergone a profound change.

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Volatility in Japanese Politics Intensifies following fundraising Scandal

Ichiro Ozawa, leader of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan and projected to be the man most likely to become Japan’s next prime minister, has become dangerously entangled in an illegal political funds investigation. The resulting damage to the DPJ appears to be severe. It was believed to have had a strong chance to win the coming general elections, scheduled anytime before September 2009. The scandal has injected a new dimension to the already volatile political situation that has evolved in Japan since 1992, when the Liberal Democratic Party lost power for the first time.

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Obama’s New Engagement Policy Towards Japan

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent four-stop swing through Asia – Japan, Indonesia, South Korea and China – in her first tour as Secretary of State represented a strong new beginning for America’s Asia diplomacy. Relations between the US and China and the US and Japan at the moment are free of any acrimony and generally good. However, the recent global economic meltdown has affected the major Asian economies such as Japan and China to some extent given their heavy dependence for exports on the American market.

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Obama’s Likely Policy Towards North East Asia

Expectations are high in Japan, both in the general public and amongst the elite, after Democrat Barack Obama’s ascendancy to the American Presidency. Japan was clearly uncomfortable with Republican Bush administration’s pursuit of a unilateralist foreign policy as against Obama’s more pronounced multilateral approach. According to Professor Kenji Takita of Chuo University, multilateralism is closely associated with smart power and therefore Obama’s shift towards multilateralism is likely to undo some of the damage that the Bush administration’s unilateralism has done to American standing.

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