Yuji Maeda is a doctoral student at the Department of Politics, University of Virginia (UVA). He is also Research Fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Tokyo. His interests include International Relations theory, military history, security in East Asia, and U.S.-China relations. Prior to joining NIDS and UVA, he obtained MSc in International Relations (Research) from the London School of Economics, with an award-winning dissertation: “Neorealism and the Conduct of War: Systemic and Behavioral Implications of the Russo-Japanese War.”