Global Affairs
Research Center
(GARC)
What's new?
January 2024:
Ryukoku-Stockholm University
Joint Research Seminar
Klara Melin, a PhD Candidate at Stockholm University, presented her field work findings in Japan when she was a visiting fellow at GARC from October to December 2023. The event was co-hosted by GARC, the Department of Economic History and International Relations (Stockholm University), and the European Institute of Japanese Studies (Stockholm School of Economics).
Picture: Klara Melin
About GARC
Designated as a Priority Reinforcement Research Promotion Project by Ryukoku University, the Global Affairs Research Centre (GARC) has been in its fourth year. Following the tradition of its predecessors (the Afrasian Centre for Peace and Development Studies and the Afrasian Research Centre), the mission of the GARC is to tackle problems of the global scale by providing cross-disciplinary insights beyond the confines of existing academic subjects through international research collaboration. Studying issues of conflict resolution and beyond, the GARC has emerged as a unique research arm of Ryukoku University in the sense that it focuses on such key concepts as relationality and subjectivity by drawing on Buddhist studies, international relations, area studies, and communication studies (including language education). Moreover, the GARC seeks to disseminate its research members’ findings mainly through international conferences and academic journals to raise Ryukoku’s international research profile.
Message from the Director
Although the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting border closures have made it difficult for GARC members to travel overseas for data collection and fieldwork, we remain active in holding webinars and online workshops with scholars in and outside Japan. Moreover, we have published more than 10 Web of Science Core Collection publications since 2019. At a time when global issues such as armed conflicts, economic recessions, energy supplies, climate change, migration, and public health have become more profound and interwoven, the GARC will continue to strive to shed light on these challenging issues. We look forward to collaborating with more early-career and established scholars across disciplinary and geographical boundaries as the research centre enters its next stage.
by Prof. Ching-Chang CHEN
Professor of International Politics Head, Department of Global Studies Director, Global Affairs Research Center Ryukoku University
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Our Members
International. Interdisciplinary. Curious.
Director, GARC
Prof. Ching-Chang CHEN
Educational Background
1998 BA in Political Science, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
2003 LLM in Diplomacy, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
2004 MScEcon in International Politics (Research Training), University of Wales,
Aberystwyth, UK
2008 PhD in International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
Research Areas
International Relations Theory
Critical Security Studies
Foreign Policy Analysis
Postcolonial Studies
Professor
Prof. Kosuke SHIMIZU
Educational Background
1991 BA Seinan Gakuin University, Japan
1993 MS, Seinan Gakuin University, Japan
1998 PhD, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research Areas
International Relations Theory
Feminism
Postcolonialism
Buddhism Studies
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Associate Professor
Dr. Mami IWATA
Educational Background
Shin Buddhism, Graduate School of Letters, Ryukoku University
Research Areas
History of Thought
Religious Studies
Philosophy - Chinese, Indian, Buddhist
Associate Professor
Dr. Yuka OTANI
Educational Background
will follow soon
Research Areas
will follow soon
Email address will follow soon
Professor
Prof. Reinaruth Ma CARLOS
Educational Background
1992 BA in Economics, Kobe University, Japan
1994 MA in Economics, Kobe University, Japan
2001 PhD in Economics, Kobe University, Japan
Research Areas
International Labor Migration
Asian Economies
Economic Development
Professor
Prof. Tatsuo HARADA
Educational Background
MA in Economics, Osaka City University, Japan
Research Areas
Political Economy of Human/Social Development in Developing Countries
Professor
Prof. Fumihiko SAITO
Educational Background
1984 BA Doshisha University, Japan
1986 BA Amherst College, USA
1988 MA Yale University, USA
2002 PhD Ryukoku University, Japan
Research Areas
International Development
International Cooperation
Development Ethics
Sustainability Studies
Professor
Prof. Yugo TOMONAGA
Educational Background
2003 MA La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
2004 MA Momoyama Gakuin University, Japan
2011 PhD Graduate School for Advanced Studies at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan
Research Areas
Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
Transnational Solidarity Movement by Indigenous and Minority Groups
Human Rights Education
Professor
Prof. Shingo HAMANAKA
Educational Background
1993 BA Wakayama University, Japan
1995 MA in Political Science, Kobe University, Japan
2000 PhD in Political Science, Kobe University, Japan
Research Areas
Comparative Politics
International Relations Theory
Muslim Migration
Israel-Palestine Relations
Democratization
Research Associate
Dr. Andrei YAMAMOTO
Educational Background
2014 BSc International Governance (Asia Pacific Studies), Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan
2015 MSc Global Governance & Diplomacy, University of Oxford, UK
2021 PhD International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Research Areas
International Relations Theory
Postcolonial Studies
Political Philosophy
Research Associate
Naofumi YAMADA
Educational Background
2015 BA Intercultural Communications, Ryukoku University, Japan
2017 MA Intercultural Communications, Ryukoku University, Japan
Since 2020 PhD-candidate International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Research Areas
Critical International Relations
Religion & Politics