Section: Research Student Profiles

Yukiko Ochiai

Name
Yukiko Ochiai
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
Rm 3.04 Chrystal Macmillan Building Edinburgh UK EH8 9LL
E-Mail
Research Interests
Intelligence assessment,Vietnam War
URL
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/research_student_profiles/politics_and_ir/yukiko_ochiai
Yukiko Ochiai

Qualifications

  • BSc University of Wales, Aberystwyth
  • MSc University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Working Title

Intelligence Assessments and the Origins of the Vietnam War, 1961 - 1965

Research Interests

My thesis examines the role of intelligence assessments in US policy toward the Vietnam conflict from December 1961 to July 1965. It uses hitherto untapped primary sources gathered at three archives and through FOIA requests. The findings are to be placed in the wider academic debates on the origins of the Vietnam War, the nature of intelligence assessment, and the causes of war.

Supervisors

Prof. John Peterson

Prof. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Publications/Conference Papers

Book Reviews:

Mark Atwood Lawrence, Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2005), Intelligence and National Security, vol.23 no.2 (April 2008).

Douglass H. Hubbard Jr., Special Agent, Vietnam: A Naval Intelligence Memoir (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2006), Intelligence and National Security (forthcoming).

Conference Paper:

“Intelligence Assessments and the Origins of the Vietnam War,” Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA), the 2007 annual conference, March 2007.

Research Group Membership

International Politics

 

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