Dr Akiko Fukushima
Dr Akiko Fukushima is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Tokyo Foundation Japan with a Doctoral degree from Osaka University and M.A. from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.
Her carrier includes a Professor at School of Global Studies and Collaboration, Aoyama Gakuin University and Director of Policy Studies at the National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA).
Concurrently Dr. Fukushima is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Hague Journal of Diplomacy. She has also been on the Japanese government committees on foreign, defense and security policies.
Her publications include Japanese Foreign Policy: The Emerging Logic of Multilateralism (1999) by MacMillan, ,and “Multilateralism Recalibrated,” in Postwar Japan (CSIS 2017). She has contributed chapters to edited volumes including “A New Logic of Multilateralism on Demand,” The Palgrave Handbook of Diplomatic Reform and Innovation(Palgrave 2023).
She has contributed articles to journals including “Reshaping the United Nations with Concept of Human Security Version 2.0” Strategic Analysis (October, 2020), and “ From the Asia-Pacific to the Indo-Pacific: Its Motives, Aims and Future,” (CGAI, 2021), “Covid 19: Implications for the Indo-Pacific” (ASPI, 2023), and “The Security Relations between Japan and Australia for the stability of the Indo-Pacific,”(FRS, 2024).