Faculty List of International Peace Studies

Faculty members in charge of supervising Master's thesis

POPOVSKI Vesselin
Specialized field International Relations, Peace and Security, Human Rights, International Law
Research theme Global Approaches to Peace, Responsibility to Protect, Development of International Law
KOIDE Minoru
Specialized field International relations
Research theme A Comparative Analysis on the Japanese and Korean Foreign Policy Making Process
LUCKHURST Jonathan
Specialized field International relations, global economic governance.
Research theme Global economic governance since the twentieth century; Group of Twenty (G20) relations; multilateralism; shifting authority, ideas, and beliefs in international relations.
LENZ Hartmut
Specialized field International Relations, Global Governance, Game Theory
Research theme International Bargaining – Rationality and Choice, Great Power Politics in the World, Principles of International Relations, Seminar I-III, Capstone, Theory of European Integration
EMMANUEL Nikolas
Specialized field Political Science (International Relations and Comparative Politics)
Research theme Incentives, International Cooperation, African Politics, Peacebuilding/Statebuilding, International Migration Policy
EDWARDS Sachi
Specialized field Education
Research theme Higher education, internationalization and cross-cultural learning, interfaith dialogue and peace education, religious influences on society and culture, indigenous traditions and decolonization.

Joint Faculty Members (Teaching classes only)

YAMADA Ryusaku
Specialized field Politics
Research theme 1. A Study on the "Debate on Mass Society" in Japan in the 1950s
2. Civil Society Arguments in Japan and Europe: Mass Society Theory and Radical Democracy in the 1980s
3. Paradigm Shift of Political Theory
4. Transition and Continuity of the 20th-Century Democratic Theory: Mass Society, Civil Society, Citizenship
5. Mankind, Nation, Citizen: Civil Society, Nationalism, Globalism and New Political Theory
SINCLAIR Robert
Specialized field Philosophy
Research theme 20th Century Anglo-American Philosophy, American Pragmatism
KOLI Anar
Specialized field Global Environmental Politics, International Relations, International Political Economy, South Asian Studies
Research theme My research interests are broadly focused on global environmental politics which particularly encompass climate change, social vulnerability, environmental policy networks, and civil society research.
FISKER-NIELSEN Anne Mette
Specialized field Social Anthropology with reference to Japanese Politics, Religion, Society, and Gender
Research theme Anthropology of Japan; Anthropology of Politics and Religion in Japan; Anthropology of Gender; Anthropology of Religion; Youth and Popular Culture in Japan; Komeito and Soka Gakkai; Okinawa; Community relations in democracy and peacebuilding in local-national relations; Social Theory in Anthropology.
CHAN Alex
Specialized field Sociology
Research theme Media Sociology; Youth and Gender Studies; Ethnicity and Identity; Poverty and Elderly; Migration and Refugees;
YOSHIE Hirokazu
Specialized field History
Research theme Monarchy and public education in modern history of Japan

Adjunct Faculty Members (Teaching classes only)

Olivier Urbain
TANAKA Fukuichiro
Roger Mottini

In charge of Research Ethics

MITSUMURA Masakazu
Specialized field Pedagogy
Research theme 1. Designing, developing, and evaluating bullying prevention program
2. Designing and evaluating the VTS model using participatory theatre