Toshihiko Aono

Professor Toshihiko Aono is a scholar of international history at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, and a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES). His expertise spans US diplomatic history, Cold War dynamics, and international relations. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2007) and has held academic positions at Hitotsubashi since 1998, advancing to full professor in 2019. His research emphasizes superpower relations, Cold War intersections across regions, and historical case studies like the Berlin and Cuban Missile Crises.

• Affiliations: Graduate School of Law & School of International and Public Policy, Hitotsubashi University; Visiting Fellow, Cambridge University (2022–2024).
• Key Work: Published in Diplomatic History and co-edited volumes, with a forthcoming Cold War history book for general readers in Japanese.

Research interests include Cold War normalization processes in East Asia, superpower diplomacy, and transnational historical methodologies. His recent work examines post-1970s East Asian Cold War dynamics and intersections between global Cold War dimensions.