Narushige Michishita is a nonresident senior fellow at the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative within the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He is also an executive vice president and professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.

Michishita has served in the government of Japan as a member of the National Security Secretariat Advisory Board and as an assistant counselor at the Cabinet Secretariat for Security and Crisis Management. He has also been a global fellow at the Washington-based Wilson Center and a senior research fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies of Japan’s Ministry of Defense.

A specialist in Japanese security and foreign policy as well as security issues on the Korean Peninsula, he is the author of “The US Maritime Strategy in the Pacific during the Cold War,” in Conceptualizing Maritime and Naval Strategy: Festschrift for Peter M. Swartz, Captain (USN) retired (Nomos, 2020); co-author of Lessons of the Cold War in the Pacific: U.S. Maritime Strategy, Crisis Prevention, and Japan’s Role (Woodrow Wilson Center, 2016); and author of North Korea’s Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 1966-2008 (Routledge, 2009).

Michishita acquired his PhD with distinction from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.