Name

Dr. Matsuoka Misato

Position

Ass. Professor

Affiliation

Teikyo University, Faculty of Language Studies

Research focus

International relations theories, security studies, Japanese foreign policy-making, regionalism in the Asia-Pacific and Indo-Pacific

relevant Publications

Matsuoka, Misato. (2021). “The Significance of the Liberal Japan-U.S. Alliance and the ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP)’: Reflections on the Abe Administration’s Security Policy (3) (Japanese).” Synodos. https://synodos.jp/international/24211.

Matsuoka, Misato. and Hughes, C. W. (2020). “Japan’s International Relations”, Hiroko Takeda and Mark Williams (Eds.): Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Japan. London: Routledge, pp. 234-256.

Matsuoka, Misato. (2020). ‘The Role of Informal Political Actors in Japanese Security Policymaking: The Case of Kitaoka Shin’ichi.’ Australian Journal of International Affairs 74 (6), 670-686.

Matsuoka, Misato (2018): “Amae as Emotional Interdependence: Analyzing Japan’s Nuclear Policy and US-Japan Nuclear Cooperation Agreement”, Felix Rösch, Atsuko Watanabe (Eds.): Modern Japanese political thought and international relations. London, New York: Rowman & Littlefield International (Global dialogues), pp. 151–166.

Matsuoka, Misato (2018): Hegemony and the US-Japan alliance. London: Routledge