Profile
Director, Regional Studies Department
National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)
Tomotaka Shoji
Security and international relations in Southeast Asia
Tomotaka Shoji has worked as a researcher at the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) since October 2002. His areas of expertise include security and international relations in Southeast Asia, particularly in Vietnam. He received a PhD in international relations from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo. His recent papers in English include "Vietnam's Security Cooperation with the United States: Historical Background, Present and Future Outlook" (NIDS Journal of Defense and Security, No. 19, December 2018) and “Japan’s Security Cooperation with ASEAN: Pursuit of a Status as a ‘Relevant Partner’” (NIDS Journal of Defense and Security, No.16, December 2015).
List of publications
- 2025.03.13 ASEAN in 2025: Challenges for the Region under Malaysia’s Chairmanship
- 2025.01.08 US-ASEAN Relations under Trump 2.0: Concerns Outweigh Expectations
- 2024.10.22 Vietnam’s New General Secretary and the Future of “Bamboo Diplomacy”
- 2024.07.22 Vietnam's Domestic and Foreign Policies: Successive Leadership Resignations and Their Impact on Foreign Policy
- 2024.03.14 Vietnam’s China Policy ― Deference and Check
- 2024.02.15 The ASEAN policies of the Biden administration in the United States ― The basic stance which emerges from its jumbled messages
- 2023.08.24 Japan’s Security Policy on ASEAN ― On the 50th Year of Friendship and Cooperation
- 2023.05.16 The Philippines' policy on the South China Sea under the Marcos administration: Recalibrating its distance from the United States and China
- 2023.01.25 ASEAN Summit Outcomes and Future Outlook: Issues in Regional and External Relations
- 2022.11.01 Southeast Asia and the United States under the Biden administration: from expectations to bewilderment
- 2022.11.01 Southeast Asia and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine — Diverse Relations, Mixed Reactions
- 2020.10.06 ASEAN’s Growing Concern About China’s Assertive Stance in the South China Sea
- 2020.04.30 The Security and Diplomatic Dimensions of COVID-19: The View from ASEAN
- 2019.05.10 ASEAN’s Ambivalence toward the Vision of a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” Mixture of Anxiety and Expectation