Historian of modern Japan and East Asia
Dr Andrew Levidis is a historian of modern Japan and East Asia, whose work focuses on political history, history of international relations, and the modern historiography of war. Dr. Levidis’s research focuses on Japanese politics and diplomacy in the 1930s, history of civil-military relations in prewar Japan, interaction of war and society since the nineteenth century, and the historical foundations of conservatism. In particular his research examines Japanese army factionalism in the 1930s, and the relationship between the transformation in the shape of war, and changes in domestic politics and supreme command from World War I to the 1940s.