For four years from 2013 to 2016, our research project entitled “Historical Studies of Disarmament and Arms Transfer in the Global Perspective” had been supported as Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) by Japanese Ministry of Education. In 2015, our research project was selected as an international and domestic research center on the history of the disarmament and arms transfer by Private Universities Foundation for the Development of Fundamental Research Strategies. In 2018, our project was promoted to one of the Special Institute for Research Promotion.
Through comprehensive historical studies, our research institute aims to clarify the essential structure of the modern world that prevents disarmament and arms control.
This Institute puts forward the following three research themes:
■しかくTheme 1: ‘Studies on the global influence of Arms Transfer’, focuses on the causes of the difficulty of disarmament and arms control and the repeated failures of these efforts. A perspective that grasps the ‘global influence of arms transfer’ as something dynamic is indispensable.
■しかくTheme 2:‘Studies on the developments of Disarmament and Arms Control’, poses the issue of demonstrating, in a comprehensive and world-historical structure, the main causes for the difficulties of disarmament.
■しかくTheme 3:‘International Comparison of the Industrial-Military Research Complexes (MIRC) and the Model of Industrialization with an overemphasis on the Military’, focuses on the situation of arms transfers and technology transfers that was progressed through military and technical assistance since the Cold War and on the new international tendencies that resulted from this situation. The simultaneous realization of military independence, industrialization and the cultivation of a high level of human resources has been said an important theme in considering the development of Asian countries today.
In order to disseminate our research results widely, we issue the Research Institute’s bulletin titled
The Journal of Research Institute for The History of Global Arms Transfer (twice a year).