Misato Matsuoka is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) at the University of Warwick. She submitted her PhD thesis entitled “Moving Beyond (Traditional) Alliance Theory?: a Neo-Gramscian Approach to the U.S.-Japan Alliance” in September 2014. Her research interests include International Relations theories, security studies, Japanese foreign policymaking, regional security in the Asia-Pacific region and domestic politics in Japan.