Giulio Pugliese

Lecturer in Strategic Communications at King's College London and the Director of the EU-Asia Project at the European University Institute [EUI]

Giulio Pugliese is Lecturer in Strategic Communications at King's College London and the Director of the EU-Asia Project at the European University Institute. He specialises in the international politics of the Asia-Pacific with a focus on U.S.-Japan-China relations and on Europe’s diplomatic and security outlook towards the region. His work has been published on academic and policy-oriented outlets, including in International Affairs, The Australian Journal of International Affairs, Pacific Affairs, The Pacific Review, Defence Strategic Communications, Gaikō, Chūō Kōron, and Tōa. He is co-author of Sino-Japanese Power Politics: Might, Money and Minds (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017, also available in Korean). He has been audited by the Italian Parliament on the merits of Italy’s security intervention in the Indo-Pacific, and is co-authoring a paper commissioned by the European Parliament on EU-Taiwan relations.

Dr Pugliese earned a Laurea (B.A.) in Political Science and East Asian Studies at the University of Naples, “L’Orientale” (cum laude), an M.A. in International Economics and International Relations (concentrating on East Asian Studies) at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, graduating with Honors and passing the final exam with Distinction. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. He was a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Department of Chinese Studies in Heidelberg University, a Lecturer in War Studies at King’s College London, a Lecturer in Japanese Politics at the University of Oxford, and a recipient of a British Academy post-doctoral fellowship. He has held visiting scholar positions at GRIPS, Johns Hopkins University SAIS, and George Washington University. In 2023, he was awarded the Nakasone Incentive Award for his research on Japanese diplomacy.