Tanaka, Akihiko

Professor of International Politics, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo
Professor of Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo

RESEARCH AREAS

International Politics, Postwar Japanese Politics

PROJECT:

• National Security Research Project

PROFILE:

Received his PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Has been a researcher at the Research Institute for Peace and Security, a research associate at the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Tokyo, where he was later named associate professor, and director of the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Oriental Culture. Served as a member of the East Asia Vision Group from 1999 to 2001 and as a special member of several government advisory councils.

PUBLICATIONS:

• “The Development of the ASEAN+3 Framework,” in Advancing East Asian Regionalism (Routledge, 2007)
• “Global and Regional Geo-strategic Implications of China’s Emergence,” in Asian Economic Policy Review, Vol.1 No.1 (Blackwell Publishing, 2006)
• Human Beliefs and Values in Striding Asia, coeditor (Akashi Shoten, 2006)
• Values and Life Styles in Urban Asia, coeditor (Institute of Oriental Culture, 2005)
• The New Middle Ages: The World System in the 21st Century (International House of Japan, 2002)