Donatello Osti

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Donatello Osti

Donatello Osti is a research assistant at the International Peace & Security Institute and a recent graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. He taught English in Japan as part of the government run JET Programme.

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Japan’s economy a year after: post-disaster and post-growth?

Donatello Osti - Asian Waves - 23/3/2012
The triple disaster of March 11, 2011 in northern Japan resulted in more than 19,000 deaths and roughly 340,000 displacements. A year after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, the country is still coming to grips with its huge losses; furthermore, it is confronted with the burden of reconstruction and rebuilding, estimated at $238 billion...

How Asia’s economy is key for America

Donatello Osti - U.S. and the World - 20/2/2012
Economic growth and job creation will be key issues in the 2012 presidential campaign. With the European economy in the doldrums, only Asia is capable of spurring US economic growth. The recent visit of Xi Jinping – the likely future president of China – to the White House reinforces the narrative that US jobs are tightly linked to China...

Life after Kim Jong Il: speculating on North Korea’s uncertainties

Donatello Osti - Asian Waves - 23/12/2011
The sudden death of Kim Jong Il has generated wariness and anxiety in and around the Korean peninsula. Although North Korea’s collapse has been forecast for a couple of decades, this time might just be different...

The US and the Pacific: toward a new regional integration model?

Donatello Osti - Asian Waves - 23/11/2011
As Europeans were trying to resolve their debt crisis at home, world leaders from another part of the world gathered in Hawaii (at the APEC summit meeting of November 10-12) to outline the future of the “Asian Century”...

US-Japan relations after the earthquake: opportunity rising from disaster

Donatello Osti - Asian Waves - 3/5/2011
Since the March 11th earthquake and tsunami, US personnel has systematically conducted relief operations in cooperation with Japanese civil society and the Self-Defense Forces (SDF)...

Japan’s uniqueness in facing disaster

Donatello Osti - Asian Waves - 21/3/2011
To most people perhaps, the images of Japanese shopkeepers trying to save bottles of sake from falling off supermarket racks during the greatest earthquake of the last 100 years, simply make no sense. Likewise are the calm attitudes of millions of commuters stuck in Tokyo without any means of transport...

Social networks and awakening societies

Donatello Osti - Mideast Flashpoints - 7/3/2011
The constant flux of news from Facebook pages, Twitter tweets and RSS feeds leaves little time to reflect on what technology really adds to global politics. Many commentators have praised social media for being a pivotal instrument in the uprisings in North Africa and the Arab world. Meanwhile, they have cited cyber threats and WikiLeaks as perilous to freedom and security...

The US and China through the Korean prism

Donatello Osti - U.S. and the World - 26/1/2011
President Obama’s State of the Union address predictably focused on domestic issues: creating jobs, promoting innovation and out-performing American’s competitors. Yet, all these issues are tied to the economic relationship with China...

Japan’s new national defense program – shaping up for the 21st century?

Donatello Osti - Asian Waves - 11/1/2011
Japan announced its defense program in mid-December foreseeing a more dynamic, proactive and flexible military approach in the next decade. This policy shift could be simply described as rebalancing and adjusting Japan’s threat assessment and priorities from the Cold War era to the rising power of China...