Professor, Kyushu University


Chisako T. MASUO is a Professor of international relations at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University and an Adjunct Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), who focuses on Chinese foreign and maritime policies. 

 

She was given the Nakasone Yasuhiro Award of Excellence in 2021 for her contribution to China studies and policy discussions regarding China’s Coast Guard Law. She worked with late Harvard professor Ezra F. Vogel as his research assistant before obtaining the Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2008 and served as his coordinate research scholar at Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2014-15. 

 

She had visiting fellowship at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and at China Foreign Affairs University in 2019. She has written papers and conducted extensive research activities not only in Japanese, but also in English and Chinese.

 

[Recent Publications] 

 

1. Chisako T. Masuo, “Fighting Against Internal and External Threats Simultaneously: China’s Police and Satellite Cooperation with Autocratic Countries”, IAI Papers, Istituto Affari Internazionali (Rome), Jan. 10, 2023,
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2. Chisako T. Masuo, “China’s ‘National Spatial Infrastructure’ and Global Governance: Chinese Way of Military–Civil Fusion (MCF) over the Ocean”, Maritime Affairs (Journal of the National Maritime Foundation of India), 17:2 (27 Jan 2022), pp. 27-42. 

3. 益尾知佐子 (Chisako T. Masuo), 『中国の行動原理：国内潮流が決める国際関係』(China’s Behavioural Principles: International Relations Determined by the Domestic Currents), 中公新書 (Chuko Publishing), 2019.