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Masako Ikegami

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Dr. Masako Ikegami is Professor of political science at the Department of Political Science, and former Director (2001-08) of the Center for Pacific Asia Studies (CPAS), Stockholm University. She holds Doctor of Sociology from the University of Tokyo (1996), and Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Research from Uppsala University (1998). She gave lectures on security issues at eminent institutions in the United States, Europe and Asia. She has been invited in recent years as guest professor at Tohoku University, School of Law, Sendai, Japan, and guest professor at the School of Policy Studies, Kwansei-Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan.

She holds prestigious Abe Fellowship granted by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in New York and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) in Tokyo, for doing research on ‘Nuclear Strategy of the US-Japan Alliance Revisited: Addressing Increased Nuclear Threat in the Paradox of Global Nuclear Disarmament’. She conducted this research as ‘2010 Abe Fellow’ at the East-West Center in Washington, D.C. and Honolulu in 2011, and Senior Visiting Fellow/Abe Fellow at the Research Institute for Peace & Security (RIPS) in Tokyo. In 2005, she was invited as the POSCO Fellow at the East-West Center, Honolulu, for a project ‘North Korean nuclear crisis and its implications for the future East Asian security’. She is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London, a regular member of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (awarded Nobel Peace Prize, 1995) on arms control & disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation, and a standing board member of the Swedish Pugwash Group chaired by Amb. Rolf Ekéus (formerly director of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq, 1991-97).

Her research ranges from empirical analysis of defence R&D and production, defence policy/decision-making process, arms control & disarmament, nuclear non-proliferation, to nuclear deterrence. She has published two monographs, Military Technology and US-Japan Security Relations (Uppsala University, 1998) and The Military-Industrial Complex: The Cases of Sweden and Japan (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1992), and books chapters such as ‘Japan: a latent but large supplier of dual-use technology’ in Wulf (ed.) Arms Industry Limited, SIPRI (Oxford University Press, 1993), and ‘Japan’ in Singh (ed.) Arms Procurement Decision Making, Vol. 1, SIPRI (Oxford University Press, 1998). She has also published extensively on issues like missile defence, regional security and cooperation, confidence building measures, conflict prevention, reconciliation, and regional/world system. Her recent contributions include ‘New Imperial China: A Challenge for the US-Japan Alliance’ in Asia Pacific Bulletin, No. 122 (July 2011); ‘Challenges of Rising China: A New Cold War or Neo-Imperialism?’ in Ahmed, et al. (eds) Towards a New Asian Order (Shipra 2011); ‘Peace & Conflict in a Globalised World: Linking Regional Security to Global Peace’, in Vasilache & Seidelmann, et al. (eds) States, Regions, and the Global System: Europe and Northern Asia-Pacific in Globalized Governance (Nomos 2011); ‘NATO and Japan: strengthening Asian stability’, NATO Review (summer 2007); ‘The European Union’s progressive foreign policy and role in preventing cross-Strait conflict’ in Tsang (ed.) Taiwan and the International Community (Peter Lang, 2008); ‘Time for conflict prevention across the Taiwan Strait’, China Brief, Vol. 8, Issue 7 (Jamestown Foundation, March 2008); and ‘China’s grand strategy of ‘peaceful rise’: a prelude to a new Cold War?’ in Hsiao & Lin (eds) The Rise of China (Routledge, 2009).

Masako Ikegami conducts research in the areas of international politics, security studies, war and conflict studies, diplomatic history, conflict prevention and resolution, and policy analysis, with reference to the following issues:

• International power politics and the world system change.

• Regional security and confidence building measures (CBM) for conflict prevention in the light of the European confidence building experience during the Cold War;

• Decision-making in the nuclear era: diplomatic historical perspectives;

• International regime of arms control & disarmament, non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and the global proliferation of WMD technology;

• The US-Japan alliance, the US security strategy, and the NATO strategy;

• Nuclear deterrence and nuclear strategy: post-modern approaches;

• Political economy and policy analysis of the defence industry, defence technology R&D and the transfer of advanced dual-use technology in a global setting;

• Regional conflict, reconciliation and peace-building;

• Crisis management and human security: European lessons and Asian facts.

Education

Ph.D. in Peace & Conflict Research — Department of Peace & Conflict Research, Uppsala University, December 1998

Doctor of Sociology — University of Tokyo, Graduate School, Department of Sociology, Tokyo, January 1996

Ph. Licentiate (Fil.Lic.) — Peace and Conflict Research, Department of Peace & Conflict Research, Uppsala University, October 1991

Master of Sociology — University of Tokyo, Graduate School, Department of Sociology, March 1987

Bachelor of Liberal Arts — Department of Liberal Arts, International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, March 1985.

Academic positions and affiliations

January 2010 – present: Professor of political science at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University

2010 – 2011: Affiliated as Guest Professor for a Global Center of Excellence (COE) Program at Tohoku University, School of Law, Sendai, Japan

2010 – 2011: Affiliated as Guest Professor at School of Policy Studies, Kwansei-Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan.

Past academic positions & affiliations

September 2001 – December 2008: Director of the Center for Pacific Asia Studies (CPAS), Stockholm University

April 2005 – December 2009: Professor in Sociology, Peace & Conflict Research, and Japanese/Asian studies, at the Center for Pacific Asia Studies (CPAS), Stockholm University

May 2001 – 2005: Docent (Associate Professor) in Japanese studies, sociology, and peace & conflict research at CPAS, Stockholm University

July 2000 – 2001: Senior Lecturer (universitetslektor) in Japanese studies at CPAS, Stockholm University

August 1999 – June 2000: Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies, Department of Japanese Studies, Stockholm University

1999 – 2010: Affiliated as Guest Lecturer at Institute for International Studies, Meiji-Gakuin University, Tokyo/Yokohama, Japan

January – July 1999: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University

April 1992 – September 1995: Lecturer at Division of Applied Sociology, Department of Sociology, Shikoku-Gakuin University, Kagawa, Japan.

Recent fellowships

2011 September: Senior Visiting Fellow/‘Abe Fellow’ at the Research Institute for Peace & Security (RIPS), Tokyo

2011 June – August: ‘Abe Fellow’ at the East-West Center in Washington, D.C. and Honolulu, Hawaii

2005 April, July: POSCO Fellow at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Teaching

Stockholm University, Department of Political Science

Master’s program in International Relations: ‘War, Peace, and International Security’ (from spring semester 2013)

Master’s program in International Relations: ‘World Order’ (from autumn semester 2012)

Master’s thesis tutoring

Master’s thesis seminar and examination (2011 spring semester)

Political Science III: ‘Security and Strategy in International Relations’, course program (since 2010 autumn semester)

Political Science III: ‘Security and Strategy in International Relations’, Independent Research Project (thesis workshop & tutoring) (since 2010 autumn semester)

Political Science II: ‘Decision-making Analysis in the Nuclear Era’ (since 2010 autumn semester)

Political Science II: ‘Independent Research Project’ (essay workshop & tutoring) (2010-2011)

Political Science I: ‘International Politics’ (since 2010 autumn semester)

Two lectures per semester: ‘Globalization and Development’ (2010-2011)

Kwansei-Gakuin University, School of Policy Studies, Japan

‘Policy Studies’ (in Japanese), 5-day intensive course (2011)

Ongoing research projects

On-going projects

• ‘2010 Abe Fellow’ for research project ‘Nuclear Strategy of the US-Japan Alliance Revisited: Addressing Increased Nuclear Threat in the Paradox of Global Nuclear Disarmament’, granted by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP), Tokyo. A monograph is to be produced from the project.

• Academic contributor for ‘Integrating & Developing European Asian Studies (IDEAS)’, a research project sponsored by the European Commission (European Research Area), through University of Turku, Finland. A commissioned report is to be produced.

• Editing a publication out of a workshop ‘The Nuclear Renaissance and the Risks of Nuclear Proliferation in Asia’ sponsored by the Forum for Asian Studies at Stockholm University, in cooperation with SIPRI, Swedish Pugwash, and Center for Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), 1-4 May 2011.

• Co-author for a publication project, China and International Security: History, Strategy, and 21st Century Policy, D. C. Chau & Kane (eds), Praeger, 2012.

Academic cooperation and exchange

• Tohoku University, School of Law, Sendai, Japan, for a Global Center of Excellence (COE) Program ‘Gender Equality and Multicultural Conviviality in the Age of Globalization: Globalization and Nationalism’, through inter-university agreement.

• Tamkang University, College of International Studies, Taipei/Taiwan, for a project ‘Taiwan and the World: Political, Economic, and Social Dynamism’, through inter-university agreement.

• S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore for a research project ‘Asian security and confidence building measures’ through inter-university academic exchange agreement.

Selection of publications

Monographs

Ikegami-Andersson, Masako (1998) Military Technology and US-Japan Security Relations: A Study of Three Cases of Military R&D Collaboration, 1983-1998, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Report No. 51, Uppsala University, 203 pages (ISBN 91-506-1318-9).

Ikegami-Andersson, Masako (1992) ‘The Military-Industrial Complex: The Cases of Sweden and Japan’ Dartmouth Publishing: Aldershot/Brookfield USA/Hong Kong/ Singapore/Sydney, 143 pages (ISBN 1-85521-309-5).

Ikegami, Masako (1996) Anzen-Hosho no Shakaigaku – Atarashii Anzen-hosho-sochi o Motomete – [Sociology of Security – Searching for an Alternative Security Complex–], (doctoral dissertation), University of Tokyo, Graduate School, Department of Sociology, 163 pages.

Edited books/journals

Co-Editor, Strategic Yearbook 2007: China Rising, Swedish Defence College & Finnish National Defence University, with Prof. Bo Huldt, et. al. (ISSN 1404-5842; ISBN 978-91-85401-89-5)

Editor-in-Chief, annual The Stockholm Journal of East Asian Studies, vol. 12-17 (2002-2007), Center for Pacific Asia Studies (CPAS), Stockholm University (ISSN 0284-883X).

Editor, Searching for Common Ground in South Asia, workshop report of a CPAS-SIPSIR workshop ‘New Initiatives for Risk Reduction on Unsettled Asian Borders’, Stockholm, 26-29 September 2003, CPAS, Stockholm University, December 2003 (ISBN: 91-973604-4-9).

Editor, New Northeast Asia Initiatives, workshop compendium from an international workshop ‘New Northeast Asia Initiatives: Development Cooperation and Cooperative Security’, CPAS, Stockholm University, 2001 (ISBN 91-973604-3-0).

Book chapters/journal articles in English

Ikegami, Masako (forthcoming) ‘Diplomacy of Violence: an Essence of the North Korean Nuclear Conundrum’, Asia Pacific Issues, Honolulu: The East-West Center.

Ikegami, Masako (forthcoming) ‘The Rewritten History: The Obstacle to Reconciliation’, M. Chung (ed.) The Power to Heal: Ways and Obstacles to Collective Reconciliation in Eastern and Western Traditions, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

Ikegami, Masako (forthcoming) ‘Security Cooperation in Asia: Lessons of the CSCE and the Role of Japan’, Vanoverbeke (ed.) Japan-EU Partnership: Facing Common Global and Regional Challenges, Institute for European Studies-ULB, Brussels: Free University Press.

Ikegami, Masako (2012) ‘The Agenda and Potential of the East Asian Community: A Critical Historical Sociological Analysis of Imperialism in Asia’, GEMC Journal, No. 6/7 (March 2012), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

Ikegami, Masako (2011) ‘Taiwan’s Strategic Relations with its Neighbours: A Countervailing Force to Rising China’, Lim & Damm (eds) European Perspectives on Taiwan, VS Verslag/Springer Academic Publisher: Germany, pp. 107-124.

Ikegami, Masako (2011) ‘New Imperial China: A Challenge for the US-Japan Alliance’, Asia Pacific Bulletin, No. 122 (12 July 2011), Washington, D.C.: The East-West Center in DC.

Ikegami, Masako (2011) ‘Neo-Imperialism: China's Quasi-Manchukuo Policy toward North Korea, Mongolia, and Myanmar’, Tamkang Journal of International Affairs, Vol. XIV, No. IV (April 2011), pp. 61-98.

Ikegami, Masako (2011) ‘Challenges of Rising China: A New Cold War or Neo-Imperialism?’, Ahmed, Panda & Singh (eds)  Towards a New Asian Order, the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), Delhi: Shipra Publications, pp. 128-149.

Ikegami, Masako (2011) ‘Peace & Conflict in a Globalised World: Linking Regional Security to Global Peace’, Vasilache, Seidelmann & de Sales Marques (eds) States, Regions, and the Global System: Europe and Northern Asia-Pacificin Globalized Governance, Baden-Baden: Nomos Publishing House, pp. 245-273.

Ikegami, Masako (2009) ‘China’s Grand Strategy of ‘Peaceful Rise’: A Prelude to a New Cold War?’, Hsiao & Lin (eds) The Rise of China: Beijing’s Strategies and Implications for the Asia-Pacific, London: Routledge, pp. 21-54.

Ikegami, Masako (2009) ‘Solving the Dokdo/Takeshima Dispute: Searching Common Ground through the Aland Model’, The Journal of East Asian Affairs, vol. 23, no. 1 (spring/summer 2009), Institute for National Security Strategy, Seoul, pp. 1-22.

Ikegami, Masako (2008) ‘Time for Conflict Prevention Across the Taiwan Strait’, China Brief, vol. 8, issue 7 (28 March 2008), Jamestown Foundation.

Ikegami, Masako (2008) ‘The European Union’s Progressive Foreign Policy and Role in Preventing Cross-Strait Conflict’, Tsang (ed.) Taiwan and the International Community, London: Peter Lang Ltd, pp. 133-152.

Ikegami, Masako (2007) ‘The Risk of Cross-Strait Conflict and the Role of the European Union in Conflict Prevention’, Huldt & Ikegami, et al. (eds) Strategic Yearbook 2007: China Rising, Reaction, Assessment and Strategic Consequence, Swedish National Defence College & Finnish National Defence University, pp. 255-282.

Ikegami, Masako (2007) ‘NATO and Japan: Strengthening Asian Stability’ in NATO Review, Partnerships: Old and New (summer 2007).

Ikegami, Masako & Hai-iau Chin (2007) ‘Democratization and Economic Growth: the relevance of Taiwan’s Experience’ in Stockholm Journal of East Asian Studies, vol. 17 (2007), pp. 9-29.

Ikegami, Masako (2006) ‘Asia in Global Security: an Epicentre of New Instability’ in Stockholm Journal of East Asian Studies, vol. 16 (2006), pp. 9-16; from the SIPRI 40th Anniversary Session ‘Global Powers, Global Threats’, Stockholm, 13 December 2006.

Ikegami, Masako (2004) ‘Japan’s Defense Policy under Challenge of Volatile Northeast Asian Security’, in Japan and its Neighbors, European Japan Experts Association (EJEA) Report Vol. 5, Japanese-German Center Berlin (JGCB), Berlin: JGCB, pp. 58-68.

Ikegami, Masako (2004) ‘International Defence R&D Cooperation: From Competition to True Cooperation – Case of US-Japan Defence R&D Cooperation in Transition’, in Bialos & Koehl (eds), European Defence Research and Development: New Visions and Prospects for Cooperative Engagement, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institute, pp. 117-139 (ISBN 0-9753325-6-2).

Ikegami, Masako (2004) ‘Missile Defence and Nuclear Deterrence in post-Cold War Regional Conflicts’ in Asia-Pacific Cooperative Security in the 21st Century, Hsieh (ed.), Taipei: Academia Sinica, pp. 1-14.

Ikegami, Masako (2003) ‘Preface’ in Searching for Common Ground in South Asia, A Report of a CPAS-SIPSIR Workshop, ‘New Initiatives for Risk Reduction on Unsettled Asian Borders’, CPAS, Stockholm University, pp. 1-3.

Ikegami, Masako (2002) ‘Implications of Missile Defence across the Taiwan Strait: Bringing Conflict Prevention back in’, in Tzeng (ed.) Security and Conflict Prevention across Taiwan Strait in the Early 21st Century, Taipei: National Strategic Studies Institute, National Defence University, pp. 635-670.

Ikegami-Andersson, Masako (2002) ‘Globalization of Defence Industries: Sweden and Japan’, in Defence Industry Globalization, Washington D.C.: The Atlantic Council of the United States, pp. 171-192.

Ikegami-Andersson, Masako (1998) ‘Japan’, in Singh (ed.) Arms Procurement Decision Making, Vol. 1: China, India, Israel, Japan, South Korea, and Thailand.  Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 131-176.

Ikegami-Andersson, Masako (1993) ‘Japan: a Latent but Large Supplier of Dual-use Technology’, in Wulf (ed.) Arms Industry Limited, SIPRI, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 320-344.

Ikegami, Masako (1991) ‘Arms Production and Transfer in Japan and Sweden: The Arms Industry at a Turning Point’, in Bozzo (ed.) Exporting Conflict: International Transfers of Conventional Arms. Forum on the Problems of Peace & War, Firenze: Cultura Nuova, pp. 96-131.

Book chapters/journal articles in Japanese

Ikegami, Masako (2011) ‘Chugoku ga tenkai suru giji-Manshukoku seisaku [China's quasi-Manchukuo strategy toward North Korea, Mongolia, Myanmar]’, Mondai to Kenkyu [Quarterly in Japanese ISSUES & STUDIES, A Journal of Asian Pacific Studies], December 2011, Institute of International Relations (IIR), National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ikegami, Masako (2010) ‘Chugoku ga tenkai suru giji-Manshukoku seisaku [China's quasi-Manchukuo strategy toward North Korea, Mongolia, Myanmar]’, Chuo-Koron (one of the most influential opinion journals in Japan) (April 2010), Tokyo: Chuo-Koron Publishing Co. pp. 162-173.

Ikegami, Masako (2009) ‘Goriteki kakuhaizetsu ni mukete ayumi-hajimeru toki [Time for Rational Nuclear Disarmament]’, Ushio [The Tide] (November 2009), Tokyo, pp. 140-145.

Ikegami, Masako (2008) ‘Fusen wo turanuku Sweden no Heiwa-gaiko [Sweden’s None-War Peace Diplomacy]’, Ushio [The Tide] (August 2008), Tokyo, pp. 94-99.

Ikegami, Masako (2006) ‘Kaisetsu [Commentary/Laudiation]’ for a book, Ryo Hagiwara (2006) Kim Jong-Il, Kakusareta Senso [Kim Jong-Il’s Hidden Wars], Bungei-Shunju-sha, Tokyo, pp. 329-335.

Ikegami Masako (2005) ‘Hibuso-chiiki Åland: Koritu-shugi kara Region no heiwa zukuri e [Demilitarized Zone Åland: from Isolationism to Peace-making]’, in Furuki (ed.) Region no Jidai to Shima no Jichi: Åland to Okinawa no Hikaku-kenkyu [The Era of Region and Autonomy of Islands: a Comparative Study of Åland in the Baltic Sea and Okinawa in the east China Sea], Tokyo: Chuo University Press, pp. 77-92.

Ikegami, Masako (2004) ‘Seigyo to Yudo: Mohitotsu no Kita-Chosen Seisaku [Regulations and Guidance: An Alternative Policy toward North Korea]’, in Sugita (ed.) Do-suru Niccho-Kankei: Kan-Taiheiyo no Shiten kara [What to do with the Japan-North KoreaRelationship?: From the Pan-Pacific Perspective], Liberta Publishing Co., Tokyo, pp. 200-29.

Ikegami, Masako (2003) ‘Global-ka jidai no Heiwa to Anzen. Kindai-Anzenhosho-gainen wo koete [Peace and Security in the Era of Globalization: Transcending the modern national security concept]’, in Takekawa & Yamada (eds) Gendai-Shakaigaku niokeru Rekishi to Hihan. Global-ka no Shakaigaku [History and Critics of Contemporary Sociology, Vol. I. Sociology in Globalization], Tokyo: Toshindo, pp. 3-12.

Newspaper editorial articles

Ikegami, Masako (2011) ‘Kokkai no Kino-kyoka: Sensoku Think-tank no Setsuritu wo [Strengthen functions of the National Diet: A proposal of a think-tank exclusively assigned to the Diet]’, editorial article in Kyodo News, Tokyo, 30 October 2011.

Ikegami, Masako (2010) ‘Minshuka koso Nihon saidai no Anpo [Democratization of China is the best security for Japan]’, editorial article regarding Liu Xiaobo’s 2010 Nobel Peace Prize award, Sankei Shimbun (one of major news papers in Japan), Tokyo, 9 December 2010.

Ikegami, Masako (2009) ‘Saranaru Kaku-Gunshuku Rido wo: Reisen 20-shunen, Aratamete towareru Nihon no yakuwari [Japan to lead further nuclear disarmament: Japan’s role in question 20 years after the end of the Cold War]’, Mainichi Shimbun [Mainichi Newspaper, one of the major newspapers], Tokyo, 17 September 2009, p. 11.

Ikegami Masako & Mika Shimizu (2009) ‘Daikibo-Saigai Risk: Sogo-odan tekina kanri taisei wo [Proposing Comprehensive Risk management System toward Large-Scale Disasters]’, Column Keizai-Kyoshitu, Nihon-Keizai Shimbun [Nikkei (Japan Economic) Newspaper] (the largest economic newspaper in Japan), Tokyo, 11 May 2009.

 

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