Nov 09,2014 Topics of the Month Civilizational Divides and Regional Confrontations – 3 Both Gilbert Rozman and Francois Godement’s articles are stimulating and instructive, and it is a pleasure for me to follow up the debate. Issues raised by Rozman are real. I tend to agree with Godement that it is important to see these complicated issues both from a strategic-realist and a civilizational-constructivist perspective, in that order. […] Kazuhiko Togo deterrence , dialogue , Japanese identity , Japanese-Europe dialogue , Russian identity , Ukraine civilization