Lionel Fatton

Dr. Lionel Fatton

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.