PROF. YOICHIRO SATO

PROFESSOR YOICHIRO SATO holds a BA (Law) from Keio University, MA (International Studies) from University of South Carolina, and Ph.D (Political Science) from University of Hawaii. He currently teaches at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. He also held other positions including a lecturership at Auckland University, professorship at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) of the U.S. Department of Defense, and a visiting senior research fellow at Yusof Ishak Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS). His most recent works include Handbook of Indo-Pacific Studies (co-edited with Barbara Kratiuk, Jeroen Van den Bosch, and Aleksandra Jaskólska, Routledge, 2023), Alliances in Asia and Europe: The Evolving Indo-Pacific Strategic Context and Inter-Regional Alignments (co-edited with Elena Atanassova-Cornelis and Tom Sauer, Routledge, 2023), and Security Order and Strategic Alignment in Europe and the Asia-Pacific: Times of Global Power Shifts (co-edited with Elena Atanassova-Cornelis and Tom Sauer, Routledge, 2025). He is active in media and foreign policy circles, appearing and having written for and been quoted, in more than 30 media and think tank outlets globally, including BBC, Al Jazeera, and Bloomberg.

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