Profile

The Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Senior Fellow
Tsuneo "Nabe" Watanabe
Japan-US alliance, Security in Asia, Politics and diplomacy of Japan and the United States
Tsuneo “Nabe” Watanabe is a senior fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, an independent policy research organization in Tokyo. In October 2016, Watanabe joined the Sasakawa Peace Foundation after serving a senior fellow and a director of foreign & security policy research at the Tokyo Foundation in 2009 to 2016. He served a senior fellow at the Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute in Tokyo in 2005 to 2009. In 1995, Watanabe joined Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. He served a visiting research scholar, research associate, fellow and senior fellow until 2005. He is currently adjunct fellow of the CSIS.
His publications include “Powers out of Control: Why the US, China & Russia are Threats to the World?” [co-authored with Daisuke Kondo et.al. in Japanese] (Kodansha, 2017), “Asia Pacific Countries and the US Rebalancing Strategy”[co-authored with David W.F. Huang et.al.] (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016), “NATO and Asia Pacific”[co-authored with Alexander Moens and Brooke A. Smith-Windsor et.al.](NATO Defense College, 2016), “NATO after the Cold War“[co-authored with Tomonori Yoshizaki et.al. in Japanese] (Minerva Shobou, 2012), “Are the US and China Trading Places in 2025: History Tells the Truth of the US-China Relations” [in Japanese] (PHP Research Institute, 2011). Watanabe received his D.D.S. from Tohoku University in Japan and his M.A. in political science from the New School for Social Research in New York.
List of publications
- 2023.3.14 What’s New in Japan's Three Strategic Documents
- 2022.3.22 【Shaping the Pragmatic and Effective Strategy Toward China Project:Working Paper Vol.8】What are the common strategic interests and rationale to compete with China by Japan and the US?
- 2021.5.11 The Strategic Significance of the Japan-U.S. Summit — Challenges for Economic and Security Cooperation vis-a-viz China
- 2019.10.30 Japan’s Rationale for the Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy [1]