Anastasiia Starchenko - Institute for Security and Development Policy

Anastasiia Starchenko was an intern at ISDP’s Stockholm Japan Center September 2018-March 2019. In 2018, she graduated with distinction from Tallinn University of Technology with a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, specializing in Japan and East Asia security studies. Ms. Starchenko additionally holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Ukrainian Academy of Banking and has previously worked as a consular assistant at the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Estonia. Her research interests focus on Japan’s global strategic leadership as well as challenges to regional security and cooperation in the Asia Pacific.

Blog Posts

March 27 2019 by Anastasiia Starchenko

March 27 2019 by Anastasiia Starchenko
Challenging China’s Dominance: Japan’s Grand Strategy for Africa

Japan’s collaborative investments in African markets are set to increase as the country attempts to offset the dominance of Chinese economic involvement on the continent. The Japanese government recently announced that it intends to establish a permanent joint council, involving government officials, economic organizations, and Japanese companies operating in Africa. The launch of the new […]
November 19 2018 by Lars Vargö and Anastasiia Starchenko

November 19 2018 by Lars Vargö and Anastasiia Starchenko
A New Dawn for Sino-Japanese Relations? Lessons for Japan-South Korea

Long-strained Sino-Japanese relations might have entered a “new historic phase”, as Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Shinzo and China’s President Xi Jinping expressed their shared willingness to transform the dynamics of bilateral relations “from competition to collaboration” during the official meeting in Beijing on October 26, 2018. On the same day, Abe Shinzo and Chinese Prime […]
September 21 2018 by Lars Vargö and Anastasiia Starchenko

September 21 2018 by Lars Vargö and Anastasiia Starchenko
Abe’s Strategy in the Trump Era: Uncertainty in U.S. Policy Toward Japan

Despite the much-publicized special relationship of U.S. President Donald Trump with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who have met about nine times (and shared three rounds of golf) since late 2016, Trump’s policy agenda on trade and North Korean dialogue signals a disquieting uncertainty in the U.S.-Japan security alliance. Separating increasingly fraught economic talks from […]