Takuya Matsuda is a Non-Resident Fellow in the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) and an assistant professor at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. His research focuses on alliance politics, great power relations, and US grand strategy with a focus on the western Pacific. His work has been published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, Survival, War on the Rocks, and Foreign Policy. He has held research positions at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University, the Notre Dame International Security Center, the National Taiwan University, and the University of Tokyo and received his PhD from King’s College London, MA from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and BA from Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.