"Liberal Democracies in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs)" Working Group
Activity records
2025.04.20 (Sun.)
Event
Symposium
Workshop with UTartu “Frontlines of Cognition and Memory in Eurasia: Russia, China and Greater Central Asia in History and Present”
2025.02.19 (Wed.)
News
Announcements
Roundtable Discussion with Dr. Kristi Raik (ICDS) on the Security of Undersea Infrastructure and other Outstanding Issues
2025.02.19 (Wed.)
Event
Seminar
ROLES-ICDS Roundtable on the Security of Undersea Infrastructure and the other Outstanding Issues
2024.07.29 (Mon.)
Event
Seminar
RCAST Security Seminar on Women and Revolutions in Ukraine and Belarus
2023.11.08 (Wed.)
Event
Symposium
Symposium “Russian invasion of Ukraine and Eastern Europe/East of Europe”
Members
Head
Atsuko HIGASHINO
Specialised in international relations theory, European international politics, EU Eastern enlargement and external relations.
Ryo NAKAI
Specialised in comparative politics (party politics and elections, nationalism and ethnopolitics).
Obtained PhD in 2012. He worked as an assistant at Waseda University, a JSPS Research Fellow, an assistant professor at Rikkyo University and associate professor at the Department of Policy Studies, The University of Kitakyushu before assuming his current position on April 1, 2024.
Yoshihisa NISHIYAMA, Ph.D.
Russian politics, historical awareness, nationalism
After working as a part-time lecturer at Chikushi Jogakuen University, The University of Kitakyushu and University of Nagasaki, he became a specially-appointed assistant professor at Hokkaido University's Organisation for International Cooperation before assuming his current position.
Tsuyoshi GOROKU
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-).
Michitaka HATTORI
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.
Kohei IMAI
Norito KUNISUE
Yuma TANAKA
Yuma Tanaka was a Project Researcher at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology’s Open Laboratory for Emergence Strategies (ROLES), the University of Tokyo. Before joining ROLES, Yuma was an Attaché for the Political Section at the Embassy of Japan in Ukraine. He was also previously a Project Officer for the East/Central Asia and Caucasus Department at Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). He also worked as an Attaché for the Economy and Economic Cooperation Section at the Embassy of Japan in Kazakhstan through 2017 to 2020. Yuma holds a M.A. from the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanity and Sociology, and a B.A. from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Hiromi KOMORI
Katherine YUSKO
Tadashi YAMAMOTO
Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI
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