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PROFILE NAME

Junjiro Shida

Visiting Senior Fellow, The University of Tokyo of the Economic Security Intelligence Lab, ESIL
Research Center for the Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo
Senior Associate Professor, Department of International Culture, Faculty of International Studies, Meio University

Dr. Shida holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Chuo University. His research focuses on Cold War history, hybrid warfare, cognitive warfare, Japan’s defense policy, and international politics in the Indo-Pacific. His major works include The End of the Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy: The George H. W. Bush Administration and German Unification (Yushindo, 2020), which received the 26th Shimizu Hiroshi Prize from the Japanese Association for American Studies, and Hybrid Warfare: The Shifting International Order (Namiki Shobo, 2024).

Based in Okinawa, he actively collaborates with government institutions such as the Ministry of Defense, the Self-Defense Forces, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as academic and policy communities both in Japan and abroad.