From Michito Tsuruoka: Japan's Global Diplomacy (Stimson Center publication)

2015/03/14

Japan's Global Diplomacy (Stimson Center publication)

Yuki Tatsumi (ed.), Japan's Global Diplomacy (Washington, DC: Stimson Center, March 2015) has just been released and is now available at Stimson's website.

It looks at Japan's various bilateral political and security partnerships beyond its immediate neighbourhood. I contributed a chapter on Japan-Europe relations and other authors on Australia (Tomohiko Satake), India (Takaaki Asano) and Russia (Yoko Hirose).

Link to PDF: http://www.stimson.org/books-reports/japans-global-diplomacy/

On the occasion of the release of the publication, the Stimson Center hosted a seminar on 10 March, in which all the four authors participated.

Video of the event: https://vimeo.com/121936190

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.