Akitoshi Miyashita was Professor of International Relations and the founding Dean of the English Track Program at Tokyo International University (until 2024). He has been a visiting scholar at the Japan Institute of International Affairs, Vanderbilt University (on Fulbright), University of California at Irvine, and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. His research interests include theories of International Relations, Japanese foreign policy, international security of Asia-Pacific, and the social science methodology. He is currently researching on politics of identity in Sino-Japanese relations and completing a book manuscript, tentatively entitled: International Politics: Mechanisms for War and Peace. Dr. Miyashita is the author of Limits of Power: Asymmetric Dependence and Japanese Foreign Aid (Lexington Books, 2003), Handbook of Japanese Postwar Diplomacy (in Japanese, 2017), and co-editor of Japanese Foreign Policy in Asia and the Pacific (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002), among others. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University, M.A. in international affairs from American University, and B.A. in international studies from Tokyo International University.