Participant Biographies

Andrew Oros

Andrew Oros

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Studies, Washington Cellege
Extended Deterrence and Assurance in Japan

Dr. Oros has studied at three universities in Japan and was an invited research fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo in the summer of 2009. He is a specialist on the international and comparative politics of East Asia and the advanced industrial democracies, with an emphasis on contending approaches to managing security. He also serves as chair of the Division of Social Sciences. Prior to earning his Ph.D., he worked as the editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies and as a studies associate for the Pacific Council on International Policy, the western partner of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations.