ISS: Research Staff: MASLOW, Sebastian

Institute of Social Science The University of Tokyo

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MASLOW, Sebastian

Division Department of International Japanese Society 　
Research Fields International Relations, Contemporary Japanese Politics
E-mail

s-maslowiss.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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https://researchmap.jp/smaslow

Teaching and Research Appointments

Jun 2024 - Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
April 2020 - March 2024 Lecturer, Department of Global Studies, Sendai Shirayuri Women’s College
April 2018 - March 2020 Research Fellow, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
October 2017 - March 2018 Project Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University
April 2015 -　March 2017 Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Law, Tohoku University
March 2015 Graduate School of Law, Tohoku University, Ph.D. course work completed (Political Science)
October 2012 -　April 2014 Assistant Professor, Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Heidelberg
September 2009 Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, M.A. in Information Sciences
September 2007 Freie Universität Berlin, B.A. in Japanese Studies

Topics of Research

1Crisis narratives and Japanese national security

2Think tanks in Japanese politics

3Comparative politics of arms exports

Selected Publications

  • “Japan’s Geopolitics: Mapping a New Geostrategic Space in the Indo-Pacific.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics, edited by Zak Cope, May 2024.
  • “Rethinking change in Japan's security policy: punctuated equilibrium theory and Japan's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine,”Policy Studies45(3-4): 653-676 (with Paul O’Shea), January 2024.
  • “The 2020/2021 Tokyo Olympics: Does Japan get the gold medal or the wooden spoon?” Contemporary Japan35(1): 16-34 (with Paul O’Shea), April 2023.
  • Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State (co-edited with Christian Wirth). Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021.
  • “’Making the alliance even greater’: (Mis-)managing U.S.-Japan relations in the age of Trump,”Asian Security 17(2): 649-669 (with Paul O’Shea), June 2021.
  • “Japan's new arms export policies: strategic aspirations and domestic constraints,” Australian Journal of International Affairs 74(6): 649-669 (with Alexandra Sakaki), November 2020,
  • “Knowledge Regimes in Post-Developmental States: Assessing the Role of Think Tanks in Japan's Policymaking Process,” Pacific Affairs 91(1): 95-117, March 2018.
  • “Japan’s Foreign Policy.” In Routledge Handbook of Politics in Asia, edited by Shiping Hua, 342-354. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.
  • Risk State: Japan’s Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty (co-edited with Ra Mason and Paul O’Shea). Abingdon: Routledge, 2015.
  • “A Blueprint for a Strong Japan? Abe Shinzo and Japan's Evolving Security System,” Asian Survey 55(4), 739-765, July 2015.
  • “China and Japan: Partner, Rival, and Enemy?” In China’s International Roles: Challenging or Supporting International Order?, edited by Sebastian Harnisch, Sebastian Bersick, and Jörn-Carsten Gottwald, 188-206. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015.
  • “Yet Another Lost Decade? Whither Japan’s North Korea Policy under Abe Shinzō,” The Asia-Pacific Journal/Japan Focus 11(15-3), April 2013.
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