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Axel Berkofsky is a senior lecturer at the University of Pavia, Italy, and a senior associate research fellow at the Milan-based Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI). He is also an Executive Committee board member at the Stockholm-based European Japan Advanced Research Network (EJARN) and research affiliate at the EU Centre for Japanese Studies at the Stockholm School of Economics. Previously, he was senior policy analyst and associate policy analyst at the European Policy Centre (EPC) and research fellow at the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS), both in Brussels, and also lectured and taught at numerous think-tanks, research institutes and universities in Europe and Asia. His research interests are Japanese and Chinese foreign and security policies, Chinese history, Cold War history, Asian security and EUAsia relations. He has authored two and edited four books and has widely published articles and essays in academic journals, as well as newspapers and magazines. Recent publications include A Pacifist Constitution for an Armed Empire (FrancoAngeli, Milan 2012), Understanding China (co-edited with Silvio Beretta and Lihong Zhang, Springer 2017), and ASEM and the Security Agenda: Talking the Talk but also Walking the Walk? in Gaens and Khandekar (eds.) Inter-Regional Relations and the AsiaEurope Meeting (ASEM) (Palgrave 2017).
Renato Cruz De Castro is a professor in the International Studies Department, De La Salle University, Manila, and holds the Charles Lui Chi Keung Professorial Chair in China Studies. He recently held visiting research positions at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) and the East-West Center in Washington DC as the U.S.ASEAN Fulbright Initiative Researcher. In 2009, he was the US State Department ASEAN Research Fellow from the Philippines and was based in the Political Science Department of Arizona State University. He taught international relations and security studies at the National Defense College and the Foreign Service Institute (Philippines), is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Albert Del Rosario Institute for Strategic and International Studies (ADR Institute), and was a consultant in the National Security Council of the Philippines during the Aquino administration. He earned his PhD from the Government and International Studies Department of the University of South Carolina, and is an alumnus of the Daniel Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii, US. He has written over ninety articles on international relations and security.
Akiko Fukushima is a professor in the School of Global Studies and Collaboration, Aoyama Gakuin University. She holds a PhD from Osaka University and an MA from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. She is also a non-resident fellow of the Lowy Institute, Australia. In the past, she held positions as adjunct professor at Keio University Law School, Director of Policy Studies at the National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA), senior fellow at the Japan Foundation and a visiting scholar of CSIS, US. She also served on Japanese government, committees including the Advisory Council on National Security and Defense Capabilities and the Advisory Council of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her publications include Multilateralism Recalibrated in Postwar Japan (CSIS, 2017), Global Merits of Alliance: A Japanese Perspective in The USJapan Security Alliance (Palgrave, 2011), Conflict and Cultural Diplomacy (Keio University Press, 2012), Japans Perspective on Asian Regionalism in Asias New Multilateralism (Columbia University Press, 2009), Human Security and Global Governance in Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Japanese Foreign Policy: The Emerging Logic of Multilateralism (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999).
Madhuchanda Ghosh is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the Presidency University, Kolkata, India. She received her PhD in IndiaJapan Relations from the Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her research interest is foreign policy studies pertaining to India, the US, Japan and China. She conducted extended research in Japan and has been the recipient of Japan Foundation fellowships in 2011 and 2014. In 2014, she was a Visiting Japan Foundation Scholar at Rikkyo University, Tokyo, and in 2006, visiting researcher at the Graduate School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo, as a Tokyo Foundations SYLFF fellow. She is the editor of three books, of which the latest is USAs Policy towards China, India and Japan (Atlantic Publishers, 2013). Other publications include Indias Economic Dynamism and IndiaJapan Relations in An Introduction to Contemporary IndiaJapan Relations (University of Tokyo Press, 2017) and India and Japans Growing Synergy: From a Political to a Strategic Focus ( Asian Survey 48:2, 2008).
Bjrn Elias Mikalsen Grnning is Centre for Asian Security Studies Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. He holds a doctoral degree in Political Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology with a dissertation examining Japans security policy response to the contemporary power shift in Chinas favour. He has served as a trainee at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo, as a visiting research fellow at Keio University and as a specially appointed researcher at Osaka University. The topics of his publications include Japans security, defence and alliance policy, missile defence and maritime security. He is the author of Japans Shifting Military Priorities: Counterbalancing Chinas Rise ( Asian Security , 2014) and co-author of Protecting the Status Quo: Japans Response to the Rise of China in Ross and Tunsjo (eds.) Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China: Power and Politics in East Asia (Cornell University Press, 2017).
Yusuke Ishihara is a research fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) of the Ministry of Defense, Japan. His expertise is Japanese foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific region. In 2014 to 2015, he served as a deputy director at International Policy Division, Bureau of Defense Policy, where he handled Japans security engagement with ASEAN and regional multilateral institutions in Asia. His publications include JapanAustralia Defense Cooperation in the Asia Pacific Region in ANUNIDS Joint Research: Beyond Hub and Spokes (Tokyo: NIDS), March 2014, pp. 93122, and JapanAustralia Security Relations and the Rise of China , UNISCI Discussion Papers, No. 32, May 2013, pp. 8198. He is also the author of the Australia chapter in the recent series of East Asian Strategic Review (EASR), and NIDS annual report on security affairs in Asia and beyond.