Professor, Keio University
Satoru Mori is Professor of Contemporary International Politics at the Faculty of Law and Deputy Director of the Keio Center for Strategy at Keio University, Tokyo. His research focuses on U.S. strategy in Asia, U.S. defense innovation and its implications for allies, and the history of U.S. defense strategy during the Cold War. A former official of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Professor Mori holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, LL.M. degrees from Columbia University and Kyoto University, and an LL.B. from Kyoto University. He previously served as Professor of Global Politics at Hosei University (2010–2022) and was a visiting researcher at Princeton University and George Washington University. He currently chairs the Japan–U.S. alliance project at the Nakasone Peace Institute and the security policy project at the Japan Institute of International Affairs, and serves on multiple government advisory bodies, including the Ministry of Defense’s New Defense Policy Roundtable.
