PROF. NARUSHIGE MICHISHITA

Narushige Michishita is Executive Vice President and Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo. He is also Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington DC and Director of the Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies (YCAPS) Japan. He has previously served as a member of the National Security Secretariat Advisory Board, a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, a senior research fellow at Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Ministry of Defense, and as an assistant counselor 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, Michishita is the author of “The US Maritime Strategy in the Pacific during the Cold War,” in Sebastian Bruns and Sarandis Papadopoulos, eds., Conceptualizing Maritime and Naval Strategy: Festschrift for Peter M. Swartz, Captain (USN) retired (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2020); 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); and North Korea’s Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 1966-2008 (Routledge, 2009). He acquired his Ph.D. with distinction from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.

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