Research Interests
Regional Integration, International Relations Theory, International Organization
Academic Degrees
- M.A. (Political Science), Waseda University, 1989
Short Bio
Hidetoshi NAKAMURA is currently Professor of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science and Economics; Deputy Dean for International Affairs, Faculty of Political Science and Economics; Head of European Research Unit, Organization for Regional and Inter-regional Studies (ORIS) and Director, Waseda Institute for British Studies (WIBS) at Waseda University. He studied Politics and International Relations at Waseda and the University of Oxford.
He is the coordinator of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Core-to-Core Program, A. Advanced Research Networks, on ‘The European Union and Japan in a Fluid Global Liberal Order: Establishing an Inter-Regional Studies Centre’ from April 2018 to March 2024.
His recent publications include ‘Diffusing the Abolitionist Norm in Japan’: EU “Death Penalty Diplomacy” and the Gap between Rhetoric and Reality in EU-Japan Relations’, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 59:5, 2021, pp. 1230-46; ‘Ordinary/Civilian, not Normative/Post-modern: Lessons from the Japanese security policy’, in Berkofsky, Axel, Christopher W Hughes, Paul Midford and Marie Söderberg (eds.) The EU-Japan Partnership in the Shadow of China: The Crisis of Liberalism (Routledge, 2018), pp. 59-80; and ‘Regional Security Communities’, in Mario Telò (ed.), Globalisation, Multilateralism, Europe: towards a better global governance? (Routledge, 2013), pp.333-348. With Paul Bacon and Hartmut Mayer, he also edits The European Union and Japan: A New Chapter in Civilian Power Cooperation? (Routledge, 2015).
