Faculty Information

■ Specialization and related fields

International Relations, Security and Conflict Studies, Foreign Policy

■ Business career

1.	2019/04～	Aoyama Gakuin University School of International Politics, Economics and Communication Department of International Politics Associate Professor
2.	2017/04～2019/03	Aoyama Gakuin University School of International Politics, Economics and Communication Department of International Politics Assistant Professor
3.	2015/12～2016/12	Visiting Assistant Professor
4.	2015/01～2015/11	Visiting Instructor

■ Activity in society

1.

2019/04～2019/04

講演 "Security Threats and Territorial Disputes: How Bilateral and External Threats Affect Peaceful Resolution"

■ Book and thesis

1.	Book	Regions, Power, and Conflict: Constrained Capabilities, Hierarchy, and Rivalry (Collaboration) 2022/08
2.	Book	Analyzing Strategic Rivalries in World Politics: Types of Rivalry, Regional Variation, and Escalation/De-escalation (Collaboration) 2021/11
3.	Article	Regional Variation in Strategic Positional Rivalries Turmoil and Order in Regional International Politics (eds. William R. Thompson and Thomas J. Volgy) pp.67-86 (Single) 2023/04
4.	Article	Japan’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cautious and Self-restraint-based Approach International Comparative Analysis of COVID-19 Responses pp.53-84 (Collaboration) 2021/11
5.	Article	A Comparative Study of COVID-19 Responses in South Korea and Japan: Political Nexus Triad and Policy Responses International Review of Administrative Sciences (Collaboration) 2021/03
6.	Article	Working Paper: Regional Power Ascent and Territorial Disputes Aoyama Journal of International Studies 7,pp.153-168 (Collaboration) 2020/01
7.	Article	On the Origins, Persistence and Termination of Spatial and Positional Rivalries in World Politics: Elaborating a Two-issue Theory of Conflict Escalation International Area Studies Review (Collaboration) 2019
8.	Article	Regional Alliance Structure and International Conflict World Political Science (Single) 2019
9.	Article	Approaches to Explaining Regional Peace Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory (ed. William R. Thompson) pp.108-128 (Single) 2018/02
10.	Article	The Regional Consequences of Territorial Disputes: An Empirical Analysis of the South China Sea Disputes Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs 4(3),pp.1-21 (Single) 2017/12
11.	Article	Impact of Municipal Mergers on Local Population Growth: an Assessment of the Merger of Japanese Municipalities Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration pp.223-238 (Collaboration) 2016/11
12.	Article	Was Wealth Really Determined in 8000 BCE, 1000 BCE, 0 CE, or Even 1500 CE? Another, Simpler Look Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution pp.2-29 (Collaboration) 2013
13.	Article	A Not So Dangerous Dyad: China’s Rise and Sino-Japanese Rivalry International Relations of the Asia-Paciﬁc pp.497-528 (Single) 2009/09
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■ Academic conference presentation

1.	2021/04/17	Troop Deployment and Extended Deterrence: How the U.S. Overseas Deployment Affects Interstate Conflict (78th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association)
2.	2021/04/08	Reevaluating the Effectiveness of the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: A View of Gender Diversity on the Supply Side (International Studies Association 2021 Annual Convention)
3.	2021/04/08	Structural Balance in International Alliance and Rivalry Networks: Does the Enemy of My Enemy Become My Friend? (International Studies Association 2021 Annual Convention)
4.	2020/02/27	Dynamics of International Relations: How Rivalry and Alliance Structures Change (NTNU-AGU Joint Seminar)
5.	2020/01/21	Evolution of Alliance and Rivalry Networks in International Relations (NetSciX 2020)
6.	2020/01/11	Reevaluating the Effectiveness of the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: A View of Gender Diversity on the Supply Side (第5回ORIS若手国際シンポジウム "Public Response to Government Policy and International Interventions")
7.	2019/12/10	Evolution of Alliance and Rivalry Networks in International Relations (The 8th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications)
8.	2019/07/05	Agent-based Model of Alliance, Rivalry, and War Diffusion (The 4th Pacific International Politics Conference)
9.	2019/04/11	Municipal Merger and the Distribution of Merger Benefits: Evidence from the Assessment of the Japanese Municipalities (The 22nd Annual International Research Society for Public Management Conference)
10.	2019/04/06	Stability and Change in the Foreign Aid Policy: The Role of Political, Bureaucratic, and Societal Veto Players (77th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association)
11.	2019/04/05	Rivalries, Alliance Structure, and War Diffusion: Computational Model of Network Structure and Macro-dynamics (77th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association)
12.	2019/03/27	International Rivalry and Territorial Disputes: How Bilateral and External Rivalries affects Peaceful Dispute Resolution (60th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association)
13.	2018/07/06	A Dynamic Network Approach to Democracy and Territorial Peace (2018 Pacific International Politics Conference)
14.	2018/04/05	External Security Threats and Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes (76th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association)
15.	2017/08/31	From Rivalry to Friendship: Examining the Determinants of Transitions to Peace (113th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association)
16.	2017/04/08	Global Powers and Regional Pacification: The Role of Neighborhood Effects (75th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association)
17.	2017/02/22	Exploring the Coevolution of Territorial Peace and Regime Type (58th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association)
18.	2016/09/02	Great Power Involvement and Regional Conflict (112th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association)
19.	2016/07/02	Global Politics and Local Hostilities: A Multilevel Analysis (2016 Pacific Peace Science Conference)
20.	2016/03/16	Variation in Spatial Rivalries and Regional Conflict Propensities (57th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association)
21.	2015/09/03	Regional Rivalry Density and Interstate Conflict (111th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association)
22.	2015/04/18	Does Centralization Enhance Local Growth? Assessing the Impact of Local Government Consolidation (73rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association)
23.	2015/04/17	Spatial Effects and Conflict: How a Neighborhood Environment Affects Interstate Conflict (73rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association)
24.	2015/01/16	Does Centralization Affect Municipal Performance? Assessing the Impact of Municipal Mergers (86th Annual Conference of the Southern Political Science Association)
25.	2014/11/07	Great Power Involvement and Cooperation among Local States: A Multilevel Analysis (International Studies Association Midwest Annual Conference 2014)
26.	2014/04/05	Shifting Territorial Control and Incentives for Killing Civilians in Intrastate Conflicts: Violence against Civilians in Sierra Leone (72nd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association)
27.	2014/03/26	Rivalries in the Spatial Context: How Neighborhood Affects Onset and Termination (55th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association)
28.	2013/04/12	Veto Players, Foreign Policy Stability, and International Conflict (71st Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association)
29.	2011/11/11	Identifying Regions as Network Communities (International Studies Association Midwest Annual Conference 2011)
30.	2009/04/03	Are Democracies Equally Peaceful? Institutional Diffusion and Use of Force (67th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association)
31.	2009/02/17	Rediscovering Geography: Geopolitics and the Causes of Hegemonic War (50th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association)
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