From Michito Tsuruoka: Interview with European Geostrategy

2014/06/05

Interview with European Geostrategy

My interview with European Geostrategy (online) is now available here. I was interviewed by Luis Simon about Europe's security role in Asia, including the Indo-Pacific region and Europe-Japan security cooperation.

Full text link: http://www.europeangeostrategy.org/2014/04/interview-michito-tsuruoka/

ブリュッセル自由大学（VUB）のLuis Simonさんによるインタビュー形式で、インド洋地域を含むアジアの安全保障における欧州の役割、及び日欧安保協力の可能性について議論しました。全文（英語）はこちらをご覧ください。掲載されたEuropean Geostrategyは、欧州の安全保障関連で活発且つ鋭い発信をしている新興のウェブサイトです。

全文リンク： http://www.europeangeostrategy.org/2014/04/interview-michito-tsuruoka/

Michito Tsuruoka, PhD is an Associate Professor of Keio University. He is based at the Faculty of Policy Management, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC). Until March 2017 for 8 years, he was at the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Ministry of Defense, Japan. In 2013-14, he was a Visiting Fellow at Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), London.

His research interests include European politics, European foreign policy, NATO, nuclear policy, extended deterrence, defence diplomacy and Europe-Japan/Asia relations. Prior to his tenure at the NIDS, Tsuruoka served as a Special Adviser for NATO at the Embassy of Japan in Belgium (2005-2008) and a Resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) on the GMF-Tokyo Foundation Fellowship (2009). From April 2012 to April 2013, he served as Deputy Director of the International Policy Division, Bureau of Defense Policy, Ministry of Defense, where he was mainly in charge of the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus) and the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF).

Tsuruoka studied politics and international relations at Keio University and Georgetown University and received a PhD in War Studies from King's College London.