Shino Watanabe is Associate Professor, Faculty of Global Studies, at Sophia University, Tokyo. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, she received her MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and earned her Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, University of Virginia. Professor Watanabe also served as a Security Studies Fellow for the Research Institute for Peace and Security–Center for Global Partnership at the Japan Foundation and as a Research Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs, Tokyo.