HOME Fellows YAMAZOE Hiroshi
Education
2002
MA in Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
2005
MA in Russian Studies, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
2008
PhD in Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
2012
Visiting Fellow, Royal United Services Institute, London
Publications
“Russia’s War and International Norms: Concerns over Its Relations with China and North Korea,”
Imbalanced Partnerships: China, Russia, and North Korea (NIDS China Security Report 2026) NIDS, November 2025.
“Documents from the 2022 Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire Consultations”
NIDS Commentary, April 2025.
“Russia’s Classical Notion of Great Power and Waning “Sphere of Influence,”
The Shifting Dynamics of Great Power Competition (NIDS Perspectives) NIDS, July 2023.
"Nuclear Weapons for Russia's International Struggle: Ultimate Means, Conflict Localization Means, and Narrative Offensive Means in the 'Strategic Deterrence' Concept" [In Japanese]
International Politics, March 2021.
"Russia's Multi-layered Means of Conflict"
NIDS Briefing Memo, October 2020.
"Different concepts on borders and treaties in the Russian and the Qing Empires: Nikolai Ignat'ev and negotiations toward the Treaty of Peking, 1860" [In Japanese]
Russian History, April 2020.
"The Growing Influence of China as Seen from Central Asia and Russia: Cooperation in Eurasian Space and Pursuit of Autonomy"
NIDS China Security Report 2020: China Goes to Eurasia, NIDS, November 2019.
"The Traditional Structures of the International Environment in Central Asia and the Potential for Change"
NIDS Briefing Memo, April 2019.
"Sino-Russian Cooperation from the Perspective of the U.S.-Japan Alliance"
Asia Policy, National Bureau of Asian Research, January 2018.
"Continuity and evolution in Russian military in East Asia" [In Japanese]
Japan Institute of International Affairs, Economic interactions in Asia-Pacific and Russia's Eastern pivot, March 2017.
"Russia's Involvement in the Issue of Syria"
NIDS Briefing Memo, December 2016
"The Prospects and Limits of the Russia-China Partnership"
RUFS Briefing, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), December 2015
"Three Level Factors of the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine"
NIDS Briefing Memo, November 2015
[Presentation] "Russian Approach to China after the Ukrainian Crisis"
ICCEES IX World Congress, August 2015
"Security relationship between Russia and China" [In Japanese]
Northern Territories Society website, March 2015
"Russian advance to the East in the middle of 19th century" [In Japanese]
Takashi Okamoto ed., Suzerainty and World History (Nagoya University Press, 2014)
International Conventional Weapons Market and Russia [In Japanese]
Toyo Shoten, 2014
"Russian Security Policy and Counter-terrorism Efforts in Central Asia: Benefits and Shortcomings of Cooperation in the SCO and the CSTO"
Shinji Hyodo and Carolina Vendil Pallin (eds), Neighbourhood Watch: Japanese and Swedish perspectives on Russian security(FOI-NIDS, 2012)
"Friends or Rivals? Sino-Russian 'Naval Cooperation 2012' "
RUSI Newsbrief, vol. 32, no. 4 (July 2012)
"Russia's Security Relations with China: Less Future Risks, More Practical Benefits" [In Japanese]
Russian and East European Studies (Tokyo), vol. 40 (2012)
"Defense Policy Debates in the Russian Military Doctrine: Emphasis on Traditional Military Concept and Nuclear Forces" [In Japanese]
The Journal of International Security (Tokyo), vol. 39, no.1 (2011)
"Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership from the Perspective of Historical Factors in Russia's Policy toward China"
NIDS Briefing Memo, No. 140 (2010)
