Axel Berkofsky
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Professor Axel Berkofsky is Gianni Mazzocchi Fellow at the University of Pavia, Italy and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI), Milan, Italy.
Furthermore, Dr. Berkofsky is a regular contributor to the Zurich-based International Security Network (ISN), the Asia Times as well as other newspapers, journals and magazines writing on Asian politics and security, EU-Asia relations, Japanese domestic and foreign, Chinese foreign policies and North Korea.
Dr. Berkofsky has earned his PhD. in Asian Studies/Political Sciences from the University of Hamburg in 2002 and has previously worked as Senior Policy Analyst, Associate Policy Analyst, and Advisor on Asian Affairs at the Brussels-based European Policy Centre (EPC), as well as Research Fellow at the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) in Brussels.
In Japan, he worked as Research Associate at the Tokyo-based German Institute for Japanese Studies and as freelance journalist for the Tokyo-based Asahi Evening News and Daily Yomiuri Shimbun.
He has altogether published more than 200 articles, papers and essays in newspapers, journals and magazines in Europe, Asia and the US.
Dr. Berkofsky has lived for 3 years in Japan, speaks fluent Japanese and is a regulator commentator on EU-Asia relations, Asian politics and security for European, US and Asian media. He has lectured and spoken at more than 100 universities, research institutes and think thanks in Europe and Asia.
Contacts
Tel.: 0039-055-3840-343, mobile: 0039-340-578-1977
E-Mail: Axel_Berkofsky@yahoo.com, Axel.Berkofsky@unimi.it
Areas of expertise:
1. Asian politics and security
2. Japanese domestic and foreign policies
3. EU-Asia relations (EU-Japan, EU-China)
4. Chinese foreign policies