"Background, Outlook, and Consequences of the Russia-Ukraine War" Working Group

Russia's invasion of Ukraine painfully demonstrated that large-scale interstate wars continue to be a real threat in the 21st century. The purpose of this working group is to synthesize the findings of area and security studies to explore the reasons why this war occurred, whether it could have been prevented, and what implications it has for Japan's national security in the future.

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Members

HATTORI, Michitaka

Professor of Laboratory of Slavic-Eurasian Studies, Hokkaido University
Specialises in the economic and political situation in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other countries of the former Soviet Union.
After working as an expert researcher at the Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Belarus and as the director of the Russian NIS Trade Association and the Russian NIS Institute, he has been in his current position since October 2022.

GOROKU, Tsuyoshi

Associate Professor, Faculty of International Politics and Economics, Department of International Politics and Economics, Nishogakusha University
Specialised in the history of US-European relations and European security.

Assistant Professor at Keio University Graduate School of Law (research fellowship), researcher at EU Studies Institute in Tokyo (EUSI) (stay in Ukraine), part-time lecturer at the Maritime Self-Defence Force Staff College, before becoming a full-time lecturer at the Faculty of International Politics and Economics, Nishimatsu Gakusha University (2017-2022), current position from April 2022. . He is also a visiting researcher at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) (2017-) and a research member of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) (2017-). 

HIGASHINO, Atsuko

Professor, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
Specialised in international relations theory, European international politics, EU Eastern enlargement and external relations.

HAMA, Yukiko

Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Relations, University of Shizuoka
Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Tsuda College; Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations, Tsuda College; Visiting Fellow, Davis Centre, Harvard University; Research Fellow, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University before assuming her current position in 2019.

Areas of expertise.
International politics, history of international relations, Russian area studies

Main research themes
Russia's Eurasian identity
The phenomenon of geopolitical 'resurgence' in emerging economies
Cultural Cold War theory

HASEGAWA, Takeyuki

PhD in Historical Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University. 
After working as a JSPS Research Fellow PD, he has been in his current position since 2018.
Specialises in contemporary Russian politics and diplomacy.

YAMAZOE, Hiroshi

Head of America, Europe, and Russia Division, Regional Studies Department, National Institute for Defense Studies
Specialised in politics and security in Russia and the former Soviet Union regions.

OGUSHI, Atsushi

Professor, Faculty of Law, Department of Political Science
Specialised in Humanities and Sociology / Political Science / Politics of former Soviet states, particularly Russia.

OKABE, Yoshihiko

Education: Doctor of Philosophy in History Chubu University2021/09/30
Doctor of Philosophy in Economics Kobe Gakuin University2015/03
Research Areas: Humanities & Social Sciences Economic history Ukrainian Studies
Humanities & Social Sciences Historical studies in general
Research Interests
General studies of Ukraine
Ukraine Political economy of Ukraine
Ukrainian diaspora in Manchuria Harbin 

MATSUZAKI, Hideya

Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts Department of International and Cultural Studies, Tsuda College

ASADA, Masafumi

Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Iwate University
International politics between the USSR and East Asia. 

HARADA, Daisuke

Project Director, Research and Analysis Department, Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC)
Diplomacy and security, international, nuclear and energy

MATSUO, Go

Managing Director, Energy Economics and Society Research Institute LLC

After participating in student entrepreneurship, he joined ELEX Corporation in 2012. He worked in the Sales Department and Corporate Planning Department, where he was in charge of building the agency system, responding to the simultaneous equivalence of planned values in 2016, VPP business research and system liaison. After working for ABeam Consulting Ltd, where he was in charge of research and business support for domestic and international power markets and systems, he joined DeNA Co. in 2019. He continued to be in charge of research on domestic and international electricity markets and systems, and was also involved in the development of distributed power supply projects.He has been in his current position since March 2021.He is a member of CIGRE, a regular member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, a member of the Public Utilities Society and the Energy and Resources Society.

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