Narushige(Michi) MICHISHITA, Ph.D.
field of study:
InternationalRelations (Strategic Studies)
Area Studies (Japan, Korea)
current research interest:
Cold WarMilitary Strategies in the Pacificin the 1980s
current position:
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo
Professor (International Security Studies)
Executive Adviser to the President
Director, Security and International Studies Program/Maritime Safety and Security Policy Program/Strategic Studies Program
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC
Global Fellow
previous position:
Senior Research Fellow, National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Japan Ministry of Defense
Assistant Counsellor, Cabinet Secretariat for Security and Crisis Management, Government of Japan
education:
Ph.D. with distinction, InternationalRelations (Asian Studies), The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, USA, May 22, 2003
M.A., International Relations (Strategic Studies) and International Economics, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, USA, May 26, 1994
B.A., International Relations, College of International Relations, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 1990
Graduated, Korean Language Institute, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea, 1988
publications:
Lessons of the Cold War in the Pacific: U.S. Maritime Strategy, Crisis Prevention, and Japan’s Role (Woodrow Wilson Center, 2016) (co-authored with Peter M. Swartz and David F. Winkler),
North Korea’s Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 1966-2008 (London: Routledge, 2009) (The Japanese version of this book received the best book award from the Japan Association for International Security in 2013.) (The Korean version is also available: 『북한의벼랑끝외교사, 1966-2013년』이원경옮김, 한울, 2014년.)
“The nuclear threat to Japan from North Korea,”Straits Times, October 1, 2016.
“Tribunal ruling a double-edged sword for China's neighbours,”Straits Times, July 23, 2016.
“Kim Jong Un's New Game,”Straits Times, February 23, 2016.
“Strategic cooperation key to Japan’s peaceful future,”East Asia Forum, May 29, 2015.
“Japan faces tricky entry into world arms market,”Straits Times, December 3, 2015.
“Changing Security Relationship between Japan and South Korea: Frictions and Hopes,” Asia-Pacific Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2014, pp. 19-32.
“Japan’s Response to Nuclear North Korea,” in Gilbert Rozman, ed., Asia at A Tipping Point: Korea, the Rise of China, and the Impact of Leadership Transitions (Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies) (Korea Economic Institute, 2012).
“Hugging and Hedging: Japanese Grand Strategy in the Twenty-First Century,” (with Richard J. Samuels) in Henry R. Nau and Deepa M. Ollapally, eds., Worldviews of Aspiring Powers: Domestic Foreign Policy Debates in China, India, Iran, Japan and Russia (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 146-180.
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Narushige MICHISHITA, Ph.D.
Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
7-22-1, Roppongi, Minato-ku Tokyo 106-8677, Japan
phone: +81-3-6439-6236
fax: +81-3-6439-6010
e-mail:
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Narushige Michishita is professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo. Previously, he served as senior research fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies of the Ministry of Defense and assistant counsellor at the Cabinet Secretariat for Security and Crisis Management of the Government of Japan. A specialist in Japanese security and foreign policy as well as security issues on the Korean Peninsula, his works include North Korea's Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 1966-2008 (Routledge, 2009). Michishita has acquired Ph.D. and M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and B.A. from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He is fluent in Japanese and Korean.
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