People
Michito Tsuruoka
Associate Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Keio University
Deputy Director, Keio Center for Strategy (KCS)
Studied politics and international relations at Keio University, Georgetown University and received a PhD in War Studies from King’s College London. His areas of expertise include international security and contemporary European politics.
Dr Tsuruoka served as an advisor for NATO at the Embassy of Japan in Belgium from 2005 to 2008 and as a Resident Fellow the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) in 2009. Prior to joining Keio, he was at the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Ministry of Defense as a Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow from 2009 to 2017. While at NIDS, he served as a Deputy Director of the International Policy Division, Bureau of Defense Policy, Ministry of Defense (2012-13) in charge of multilateral security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region, and a Visiting Fellow at the Royal United Kingdom Institute for Defense and Security Studies (RUSI) (2013-14). From March 2023 to March 2024, Dr Tsuruoka was on sabbatical as a Visiting Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) at The Australian National University (ANU).
Research
International Security, Contemporary European Politics
Publications
・“The European Union as Seen by Japan in an Age of Uncertainty,” in Natalia Chaban and Martin Holland (eds.), Shaping the EU Global Strategy: Partners and Perceptions）
・(Co-authored with Nicola Casarini) “Non-Proliferation,” in Emil Kirchner and Han Dorussen (eds.), EU-Japan Security Cooperation: Trends and Prospects
・”Competing Visions of Japan’s International Engagement: Japan First vs Global Japan,” The International Spectator 55 (1) pp.34 – 47 2020.
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