| Position | Member, Board of Trustees; Vice President; Director, Global Leadership Development Program; 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 | Military Strategies in the Pacific in the 1980s |
- Professional Career
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
Office of Strategic Studies, Defense Policy Bureau, Bureau of Defense Policy, JDA
January 2000-November 2000
April 1990-April 2001
Japan Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
2015-2016
Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
2017-
- Selected publications
<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
Appeared on NHK World, NHK, BS11, Asahi Newstar as well as other foreign
- Media Expertise
Narushige Michishita welcomes media inquiries on the following subjects:
・Security and Foreign Policy Issues
・Japanese Defense Policy
・Security Issues on the Asia-Pacific region
- Contact
E-mail: michi
*Please add”@grips.ac.jp” to send a message.
