Rethinking the San Francisco System in Indo-Pacific Security Enduring Legacies, Structural Contradictions and Geopolitical Rivalry

Yoneyuki Sugita is professor at Kobe Women’s Junior College. He received his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. His major works include  Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War  eds. by Michael W. Myers and Puck Brecher (U. of Hawaii Press, 2019);  Japan’s Search for Strategic Security Partnerships  eds. by Gauri Khandekar and Bart Gaens (Routledge, 2017);  Japanese Development Cooperation  eds. by André Asplund and Marie Soderberg (Routledge, 2017); and  Pitfall or Panacea: The Irony of US Power in Occupied Japan 1945-1952  (Routledge, 2003).

Victor Teo is Research Fellow associated with the Beyond Cold War Project based at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Research of Arts Social Sciences and Humanities. He was previously Wang Gungwu Senior Visiting Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute Singapore and served as a faculty member at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author and editor of seven books related to China, Japan and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and his latest publication is Japan’s Arduous Rejuvenation as a Global Power: Democratic Resilience and the US-China Challenge (Palgrave Macmillan 2019). Dr Teo was called to the Bar of England and Wales by Middle Temple (UK) and received his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.