Yukinori Komine, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of International Relations and Global Security at the American Public University. Dr. Komine is also an Associate in Research with the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. Komine is the author of books, Secrecy in U.S. Foreign Policy: Nixon, Kissinger and the Rapprochement with China (2008) and Negotiating the U.S.-Japan Alliance: Japan Confidential (2017). His other scholarly works regarding U.S.-Japan-China-Soviet/Russia relations have also been published in Diplomacy & Statecraft, Diplomatic History, The International History Review, and The Journal of Cold War Studies.