Dr. Toshi Yoshihara

 

Dr. Toshi Yoshihara is a senior research fellow at the Institute. Currently, he is professor in the Strategy and Policy Department at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He previously served as a visiting professor at the U.S. Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama and as a research analyst at RAND Corporation and the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.

 

His research interests include U.S. alliances in the Asia-Pacific region, China’s military modernization, Chinese strategic culture, security dynamics on the Korean Peninsula, Japan’s defense policy, and China-Taiwan relations. Dr. Yoshihara’s current research agenda encompasses China’s strategic interests in the Persian Gulf and Central Asia, the evolution of China-South Korea relations, the geostrategic dimensions of Korean unification, and Taiwanese civil-military relations.

 

Dr. Yoshihara holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and an M.A. in international relations from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.