Dr. Patalano is lecturer in War Studies at the Department of War Studies, King’s College, London. He has completed a PhD on the evolution of Japan’s post-war naval power and military identity funded by the AHRC and the Japan Foundation. His areas of interest encompass modern naval thinking, Japanese naval history, Japanese post-war defence policy, Northeast Asian security. Dr. Patalano is also Deputy Director of the department’s Asia Security & Warfare Research Group (ASWRG) and visiting lecturer on Naval Strategy and East Asian Security at the Italian Naval War College (ISMM), Venice.
Dr. Patalano has been visiting scholar at Aoyama Gakuin University in 2009, where he completed a research project on the importance of submarine warfare in Northeast Asian contemporary strategic balance with a grant from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science. From 2004 to 2005, Dr Patalano was research associate at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo. Previously, he held temporary positions as research assistant at the Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques, Paris (2003), and at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Asian Affairs Office, Rome (2002).
Dr. Patalano authored articles on different aspects of Japan’s post-war defence policy and strategic thinking which appeared in English, Italian and Japanese languages. He is currently editing the book Maritime Strategy and National Security in Britain and Japan from the First Alliance to Post-9/11 (Global Oriental, forthcoming 2010).