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Dr. Lionel Fatton

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​Dr. Lionel P. Fatton is a Swiss journalist working for the Japanese News Agency Kyodo.
He is specialized in:
- Conflicts, humanitarian issues and human rights.
- Coverage of the U.N. Geneva and specialized agencies.
- International relations and security, neoclassical realism.
- Military affairs and civil-military relations.
- International and security dynamics in East and Southeast Asia, China-Japan-US relations, Japan’s defense policy.
   In addition to his work for Kyodo News, he is also assistant professor at the Webster University, Dept. of International Relations, Geneva, and fellow of:
  • The Charhar Institute, Beijing, China,
  • Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan,
  • And collaboration on various research projects related to security dynamics in the Asia-Pacific region.
He is a member of the advisory Board at the “Conflict Barometer,” of the Institute for International Conflict Research, University of Heidelberg.  

During his career he received several awards and qualifications:
  • Qualification aux fonctions de maître de conférences, science
  • politique (senior lecturer/associate professor qualification in political science), Conseil national des universités, France.
  • First Class Honors (Ph.D. thesis), Sciences Po Paris.
  • Quarter Award, Column Contest 2012, Global Voices from Japan.
  • Certificate of Merit (academic record), Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Japan.
  • Dean’s List Nomination, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Japan.   
 
He is the author of several publications, among others:

- Japan’s Awakening: Moving Toward an Autonomous Security Policy
- Understanding Preventive Wars: Lessons from Pearl Harbor.
- Japan’s Armed Forces and the U.S. Policy vis-à-vis Asia: Moving toward a New Posture?.

​In addition to many articles in: The Japan Times, Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, Nagasaki Shimbun, Kōchi Shimbun, Chūgoku Shimbun, Saga Shimbun, Kyodo News, The Korea Times, Bangkok Post, Le Temps and Le Monde. 
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