Rohan Mukherjee is a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a non-resident Visiting Fellow at the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo. In July 2016, he will join Yale-NUS College in Singapore as an Assistant Professor of Political Science. He received his PhD in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. Dr. Mukherjee’s research focuses on how the desire for great-power status influences the behavior of rising powers in international security regimes. His writings on India’s national security and foreign policy have appeared in various journals including Survival, Global Governance, International Affairs, and International Journal, as well as edited volumes by Stanford University Press, Brookings Press, and Oxford University Press.

Anthony Yazaki is a Research Fellow at the UNU Centre for Policy Research, where he works on UN policies in the fields of peace and security as well as international development. Mr. Yazaki previously worked as a producer for the Washington, DC bureau of NHK News, where he covered the US State Department and American foreign policy. He holds a Master of Science degree from the United Nations University in Sustainability, Development and Peace, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from the George Washington University.