Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies


Yoko Iwama is Professor of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). She is also the director of Security and Strategy Program (SSP) at GRIPS.

 

Born in Kobe in year 1964, she graduated from Kyoto University in 1986 and earned her PhD in Law at the University. She was a student at the Free University of Berlin between 1989-1991.

 

Having served as Special Assistant of the Japanese Embassy in Germany (1998–2000), she joined GRIPS in 2000 and was appointed Professor in 2009. She is single with two children. Her specialty is international security and European diplomatic history centering on NATO, Germany, and nuclear strategy including nuclear sharing. She has served on numerous government committees and is a regular contributor to major newspapers.

 

Her publications include John Baylis and Yoko Iwama (eds.) Joining the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Deterrence, Non-Proliferation and the American Alliance, (Routledge 2018); Pascal Lottaz and Yoko Iwama (eds.) Neutral Europe and the Creation of the Nonproliferation Regime:1958-1968 (Routledge, 2024); Yoko Iwama (ed.) The Realities of Nuclear Sharing: NATO’s Experience and Japan (Shinzansha, 2023 in Japanese). She received the 2022 Inoki

Masamichi Prize of Japan Society for Security Studies for her book, The 1968 Global Nuclear Order and West Germany (Yuhikaku, 2021 in Japanese).