Author - Tsuneo "Nabe" Watanabe

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 Can Ukraine as a Digital Country defeat Russia? [co-authored in Japanese] (Nikkei BP, 2022), What is defense diplomacy? : Role of military in peace time [co-eds and co-authored in Japanese] (Keisoshobo, 2021), The World Order after 2021: 20 Angles of the International Affairs [in Japanese] (Shinchosha, 2020), 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). 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.