Last Updated: 2025年08月05日
In the International Relations and Comparative Politics course we welcome students with an interest in Japanese politics and foreign affairs. Professors in our department specialize in international relations, international political economy, security studies, public policies and urban administration. In their research, graduate students cover diverse areas including countries such as Japan, China, India, Europe, America, Middle East, etc. The staff, along with graduate and undergraduate students, are actively engaged in research in line with the international standard. Students will master a variety of methodologies and approaches through team teaching run by the academic staff. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. This department also offers foreign students the opportunity to study the internal politics and diplomacy of their home country from a comparative perspective.
| Students’ research themes | Thematic approach: Regional integration, Preventive diplomacy, Conflict and Peace building, Security, Ethnopolitics, Party politics, Democratization, Welfare state, Educational policy, Transnational relations, Contemporary history of International relations Regional approach: EU studies, French politics, British politics, German politics, Spanish politics, Italian politics, Politics in Northern Europe, American politics, Politics in the Middle East, Politics in ex-Yugoslavia, Indian politics, Sino-Japanese relations, Sino-American relations, Politics in the Mediterranean |
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| Teaching staff | Satoru NAKAMURA, Professor Sho NIIKAWA, Associate Professor Jun ZHOU, Lecturer Masaharu YASUOKA, Professor David ADEBAHR, Lecturer |