Dr Takuya Matsuda is an Adjunct Lecturer at Aoyama-Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. Dr Takuya holds a PhD from the War Studies Department at King’s College London. The writing of this report mainly took place when he was a project researcher at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo. Dr Takuya was previously a visiting scholar at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University and a Hans J Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center. His research focuses primarily on alliance politics, great power relations, international relations theory, and US grand strategy. His work on international security affairs has been published both in scholarly and policy outlets such as the Australian Journal of International Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, War on the Rocks, and Foreign Policy. Dr Takuya received his MA from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and BA from Keio University in Tokyo (Japan).
