From Michito Tsuruoka: GMF Video Interview on Common Security Challenges Facing Japan and Europe

2015/04/10

GMF Video Interview on Common Security Challenges Facing Japan and Europe

My GMF video interview on common security challenges facing Japan and Europe is now available (GMF website and YouTube). I gave this interview during the Japan Trilateral Forum, Brussels in January 2015.

GMF: http://www.gmfus.org/videos/michito-tsuruoka-use-force-and-japan%E2%80%99s-expectations

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8ZBfscWme8

2015年1月にブリュッセルで開催のGMFのJapan Trilateral Forumで収録したビデオインタビューです。欧州とアジアに共通する挑戦としての「力による現状変更」や、アジアにおける欧州の役割への期待についてコメントしました。

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.