MICHISHITA, Narushige

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  • Position:
    Director of Security and International Studies Program; Associate Professor
  • Degree:
    Ph.D. (International Relations), Johns Hopkins University
  Specialty:
  Strategic Studies; Japanese Defense and Foreign Policy; Security Issues on the Korean Peninsula
• Current Research Interests:
  Historical analysis of Japanese defense and foreign policy in the 1970s and 1980s
• Professional Career:
  Senior Research Fellow, Second Research Office, Research Departmen
  National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)
  Japan Ministry of Defense (MOD)
  July 2004-March 2007
  
  Assistant Counsellor (National Security and Crisis Management), Cabinet Secretariat
  April 2001-June 2006
  
  Deputy Director
  Office of Strategic Studies, Defense Policy Bureau, Bureau of Defense Policy, JDA
  January 2000-November 2000
  
  Research Fellow, Third Research Office, Second Research Department, NIDS
  April 1990-April 2001
  
• Selected publications:
  North Korea’s Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 1966-2008 (London: Routledge, 2009)
  <http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/North-Koreas-Military-Diplomatic-Campaigns-1966-2008-isbn9780415449434>.
  
  “Kim Jong Un, Uranium, and the Artillery Barrage: How to Think Strategically about North Korea?”
  Korea Platform, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
  <http://csis.org/files/publication/Platform%20Nov-29-30.pdf>.
  
  “Signing a Peace Agreement: Issues for Consideration,” International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, vol. 19, no. 1 (2010), pp. 29-63.
  
  “Robust Engagement,” The American Interest, vol. 5, no. 3 (January/February 2010), pp. 86-89.
  
  “The ‘Basic Defense Force Concept’ as Strategy,” in Williamson Murray and Tomoyuki Ishizu, eds., Conflicting Currents: Japan and the United States in the Pacific (Praeger Security International) (Praeger, 2009), pp. 133-142.
  
  “Playing the Same Game: North Korea’s Coercive Attempt at U.S. Reconciliation,” The Washington Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3 (October 2009), pp. 139-152
  <http://www.twq.com/09october/docs/09oct_Michishita.pdf>.
  
  “The Future of North Korean Strategy,” The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, vol. 21, no. 1 (March 2009), pp. 103-121.
  
  “Japan’s Response to 9-11,” in Han Sung-Joo, ed., Coping With 9-11: Asian Perspectives on Global and Regional Order (Tokyo: Japan Center for International Exchange, 2003).
  
  “Changing Faces of Japanese Defense Policy: Past and Future,” Global Economic Review, vol. 31, no. 4 (2002), pp. 91-100.
  
  “Alliances After Peace in Korea,” Survival, vol. 41, no. 3 (Autumn 1999), pp. 68-83.
  
• Social contributions:
  Articles and views published in Asahi Shimbun, Bloomberg News, Dong-A Ilbo, The Economist, Mainichi Shimbun, Reuters, Tokyo Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun, and others.
  Appeared on NHK World, NHK, BS11, Asahi Newstar as well as other foreign broadcasting.
• e-mail: michi
  
  

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