Ayumi Teraoka

Focus Areas: Alliances, East Asian Security, Japanese Foreign Policy and National Security

Ayumi Teraoka is Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. Previously, she was an America in the World Consortium Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on coercive diplomacy, alliance politics in the Indo-Pacific, and Japanese foreign policy and national security. Her current book project, Strategy of Alliance Management: Procedural Autonomy in U.S.-China Competition, examines the interactive effects of U.S. alliance management efforts and China’s attempts to weaken U.S. alliances from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Her writing has appeared in PS: Political Science & Politics, Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs, The Japan Times, and Foreign Policy, among others. She is a past recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, including Princeton University’s A.B. Krongard fellowship, the Lynde and Harry Bradley fellowship, and the Smith Richardson Foundation’s World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship. 

Previously, Dr. Teraoka worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University, an M.A. in Asian Studies from Georgetown University, and a B.A. in Law from Keio University. 

Education

• Ph.D. in Public Affairs (Security Studies); Princeton University
• M.A. in Asian Studies, Georgetown University 
• B.A. in Law (Political Science), Keio University