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Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University
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International Relations and Comparative Politics

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

Teaching staff

Satoru NAKAMURA, Professor
Subjects: Regional Politics
Research fields: Preventive diplomacy in the Middle East, Middle Eastern political economy, Saudi Arabian history

Sho NIIKAWA, Associate Professor
Subjects: Political Institutions
Research fields: Making and breaking governments in democracies, politics in Germany and Europe, political science methodology (especially qualitative and multimethod research)

Jun ZHOU, Lecturer
Subjects: Political History
Research fields: China’s political system, Modern Chinese history, Socialism, The Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong.

Masaharu YASUOKA, Professor
Subjects: Contemporary Politics
Research fields: Comparative public policy, American politics and government, urban politics contemporary modern American politics (especially the federal system and urban issues)

David ADEBAHR, Lecturer
Subjects: International Relations
Research fields: International relations theory, international relations of the Asia-Pacific, Japanese foreign policy

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