From Michito Tsuruoka: East Asian Strategic Review 2017

2017/05/26

East Asian Strategic Review 2017

East Asian Strategic Review 2017, an annual publication of the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Japan, is now available in English and can be downloaded for free at the NIDS website. I contributed a chapter on changes in Europe's strategic environment and their impact on East Asia (Chapter 1) - my very last work at NIDS.

EASR 2017:
http://www.nids.mod.go.jp/english/publication/east-asian/e2017.html

EASR 2017 (Japanese):
http://www.nids.mod.go.jp /publication/east-asian/j2017.html

防衛研究所編『東アジア戦略概観2017』の英語版が公開されました。上記防衛研究所のウェブサイトで全文がダウンロード可能です。私は、「欧州戦略環境の変動ーー東アジアへの影響」（第1章）を担当しました。防衛研究所での最後の仕事でした。

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.