Shamshad A. Khan

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Archive data: Person was Research Assistant at IDSA from June 2009 to September 2013

Joined IDSA
June 1, 2009
Expertise
Japan: Re-militarization debate in Japan, Japan’s role in international security, Constitution and internal politics, India -Japan relations
Education
PhD, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Backgrounder
Shamshad Ahmad Khan was Government of Japan’s Mombusho Fellow and was affiliated with Waseda University, Tokyo, as research student during his fellowship. He has completed his PhD on “Political debates on amending Japanese Pacifist Constitution” and MPhil on “Japanese Constitution: Relevance of Pacifism in the Post Cold War Period”. He also takes keen interest in Pakistan especially its internal politics and analyses Pakistan’s Urdu Press.
He is multi-lingual; apart from English, he also knows and speaks Hindi, Urdu, Arabic and Japanese.
He was associated with Radio Japan NHK as a programme monitor and content analyst from February 1998 to March 2007. Prior to joining IDSA, he worked with the Press Trust of India, a premier Indian news agency, as a journalist at its New Delhi office. He was also Visiting Research Fellow at the Hokkaido University, Japan from December 1, 2010 to March 2, 2011.
In 2011, he got Nakasone Award for his contribution to Japanese studies in India.
Some Publications

Research Assistant
Email:- shamshadnhk[at]gmail[dot]com
Phone:- +91 11 2671 7983

Publication

Japan’s New Defence Guidelines: An Analysis

During the entire post-World War II period Japan isolated itself from the ongoing power struggle. Even during the height of the Cold War when its two neighbours – the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China – went nuclear, Japan followed the three principles of ‘not possessing’, ‘not introducing’ and ‘not manufacturing’ nuclear weapons. Successive Japanese parliaments also passed resolutions putting a one per cent GDP cap on defence spending and imposed a blanket ban on arms exports and arms-related technologies.

Why Culture Matters?

While earthquake resistant buildings and safety of dams and nuclear plants are important, orderly public behaviour under stress, as demonstrated by the Japanese people, is also vital.