Yasuhiro Ueki

Yasuhiro Ueki is a professor in the Graduate School of Global Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo. He is a former public information officer and spokesman for the United Nations. He also worked at the UN mission in East Timor and for Unmovic in Iraq. Ueki has an undergraduate degree from Sophia University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. hiro.ueki@sophia.ac.jp

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Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine Has Major Implications Throughout East Asia

Yasuhiro Ueki

• April 4, 2022

Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified military attack on Ukraine has not only undermined the basic norms and tenets of the international order based on the United Nations Charter but it has also provoked strategic recalculations of international relations in the rest of the world, including in East Asia. The Russian invasion has pushed Japan firmly …

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Putin Can Be Charged Personally for Carnage in Ukraine, Legal Experts Say

Yasuhiro Ueki

• March 7, 2022

Russia’s unprovoked military attack on Ukraine meets the definition of “act of aggression,” as defined by the International Criminal Court. The Rome Statute, which is the legal basis of the ICC, states in its Article 8 bis 2 that an “act of aggression means the use of armed force by a State against the …

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With US Leadership Gone, Japan and Europe Can Seize the Day

Yasuhiro Ueki

• November 15, 2018

We live in an age of uncertainty caused by the shifting structure and dynamics of international politics, economics and social change. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said in his address to the General Assembly in September that this uncertainty was “a bad case of trust deficit disorder” at three levels. First, within countries, he …

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Was America’s Attack on Syria Legal? An Asian Expert’s View

Yasuhiro Ueki

• April 26, 2017

The images of civilians, particularly children, being asphyxiated by chemical substances and dying in Idlib Province of Syria on April 4 were a game changer. Judging that the chemical attack was carried out by the Syrian government, the United States, two days later, attacked Syria’s Shayrat airbase with 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles. The US …