{"id":5965,"date":"2021-04-02T18:30:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T09:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:49:24","slug":"ascione-benjamin-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/faculty-en\/5965","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin J. ASCIONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Degree:<br \/>\n<\/strong>PhD (Policy and Governance) Australian National University<br \/>\nMA (International Relations) Waseda University<\/li>\n<li><strong>Background:<\/strong><br \/>\nAssistant Professor (non-tenure-track), Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University (2022-present)<br \/>\nAssistant Professor (non-tenure-track), Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University (2021-2022)<br \/>\nPost-doctoral Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (2018-2020)<br \/>\nJapan and Korea Editor, East Asia Forum (2010-present)<br \/>\nResearch Associate, Japan Center for International Exchange (2010-present)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Field of Specialization<\/h3>\n<p>Political Science, International Relations, Security Studies<\/p>\n<h3>Research Theme<\/h3>\n<p>International Relations in the Asia-Pacific, Japanese Foreign and Security Policy, the Domestic Politics-foreign Policy Nexus<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Major Works \/ Publications \/ Awards<\/h3>\n<h4>Major Works \/ Publications<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Australia-Japan Relations Stocktake Report, Australia-Japan Research Centre (2021)<\/li>\n<li>Peak Japan, East Asia Forum Quarterly, vol 10 no. 3 (ed) (2018)<\/li>\n<li>Japan\u2019s elusive dream of \u2018contestable party politics\u2019, Australia and Japan in the Region, Vol. 5 No. 10 (2017)<\/li>\n<li>Can Abe revise Japan\u2019s peace constitution?, East Asia Forum (2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Publications Awards<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Fellowship, Australia-Japan National Parliamentary Fellowship Program (2016)<\/li>\n<li>Japanese Studies Fellowship, Japan Foundation (2015)<\/li>\n<li>Australian National University Vice Chancellor\u2019s Award for Innovation and Excellence in Service Quality (2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Academic Societies \/ Service to Society<\/h3>\n<h4>Service to Society<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Editorial Board, East Asia Forum (2016-present)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Web Page \/ Researcher DB<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastasiaforum.org\/author\/benascione\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Asia Forum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/search?text=Ben%20Ascione\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Financial Review (afr.com)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1013-5449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">orcid.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100003004_en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waseda University Researchers Database<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"\/fire\/gsaps\/en\/about\/faculty\">Back<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor (non-tenure-track)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16312,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions\/16312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}