AIZAWA Riho

Areas of Expertise: U.S. foreign policy U.S.-China relations U.S.-Japan alliance the Indo-Pacific region

Work Profile

2018-2023

The Elliott School of International Affairs, the George Washington University
2016-2020

The Graduate School of Gakushuin Women's College
2012-2016

Gakushuin Women’s College

2023

Speechwriter, International Security Policy Office, Indo-Pacific Regional Policy Division, Bureau of Defense Policy, Ministry of Defense
2021-

Research Fellow (permanent position), The National Institute for Defense Studies, the Ministry of Defense
2021

Policy Research Fellow, The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
2018-2019

Research Intern, The Hudson Institute
2017-2018

Research Assistant, Gakushuin Women's College
2016-2018

Teaching Assistant, Gakushuin Women's College

2020

Japan-US Partnership Program, The Research Institute for Peace and Security
2018-2020

YKK Group's Yoshida Scholarship Foundation
2019-

Young Leader Program, the Pacific Forum (Non-residential)
2017

Abe Tadanori Research Fellowship

"Revitalization of the U.S.-Japan Alliance and a Rising China: Adjusting Engagement and Balancing Policies during the Clinton Administration"

Master's thesis, the George Washington University, 2023
"Reframing the Indo-Pacific and Managing Relations with Like-Minded Countries."

U.S.-Japan Alliance Cooperation in the Post-Pandemic World, ed. by Yuki Tatsumi and Pamela Kennedy(Washington D.C.: Stimson Center, 2022), 11-23.
"Koramu 1: Ukuraina sensō ga jakki suru Chūgoku shidōbu no fuan" [Column 1: Chinese Leadership Unsettled by Ukraine War]

Ukuraina sensō no shōgeki [Impact of Ukraine War], ed. by Masayuki Masuda (Tokyo: the National Institute for Defense Studies, 2022),21-24.
"Strategies for Preventing PRC Illicit Technology Transfer from Japanese Academia"

Capstone Project, 2020 (co-authored.)
"The Roles and Importance of U.S. Alliances and Friends in U.S. National Security Strategies after the Cold War: From the George H.W. Bush Administration to the Barack Obama Administration"

B.A. Thesis, 2016