Editors

About the Editor

Oliviero Frattolillo is Associate Professor at Roma Tre University (Dept. of Politics) where he teaches East Asian history. Visiting Scholar at UPenn, Philadelphia (Dept. of History) and at Keio University, Tokyo (Dept. of Law), he is associate member of the Fondation France-Japon - EHESS in Paris. Among his recent published volumes is Reassessing Japan's Cold War (Routledge, 2019). 

 

Yuichi Hosoya is professor of international politics at Keio University, Tokyo. He is also Senior Researcher at Nakasone Yasuhiro Peace Institute (NPI), Senior Fellow at The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research (TKFD), and also Adjunct Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). Professor Hosoya was a member of the Advisory Board at Japan’s National Security Council (NSC) (2014-2016), Prime Minister’s Advisory Panel on Reconstruction of the Legal Basis for Security (2013-14), and Prime Minister’s Advisory Panel on National Security and Defense Capabilities (2013). Professor Hosoya studied international politics at Rikkyo (BA), Birmingham (MIS), and Keio (Ph.D.). He was a visiting professor and Japan Chair (2009–2010) at Sciences-Po in Paris (Institut d’Études Politiques) and a visiting fellow (Fulbright Fellow, 2008–2009) at Princeton University. His research interests include the postwar international history, British diplomatic history, Japanese foreign and security policy, and contemporary East Asian international politics. His comments appeared at New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, USA Today, Die Welt and Le Monde, as well as at major Japanese media. He contributed a book chapter to Yul Sohn and T.J. Pempel (eds.), Japan and Asia’s Contested Order: The Interplay of Security, Economics, and Identity (Palgrave, 2018); Gilbert Rozman (ed.), Asia’s Alliance Triangle: US-Japan-South Korea Relations at a Tumultuous Time (Palgrave, 2015); Gilbert Rozman (ed.), East Asian National Identities: Common Roots and Chinese Exceptionalism

(Stanford University Press, 2012) among others

 

Antony Best is Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. His most recent single-authored book is British Engagement with Japan, 1854-1922: The Origins and Course of an Unlikely Alliance (Routledge, London, 2021), and he is one of the co-authors of International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond, 3rd edition (Routledge, 2015).