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Associate Professor WATANABE, Atsuko
Faculty, Affiliation
Institute of Liberal Arts and Science
Associate Professor
College and School Educational Field
Faculty of Global Standard Education, Institute of Liberal Arts and Science
Laboratory
Academic Background
【Academic background(Doctoral/Master's Degree)】
The University of Warwick Doctor Department of Politics and International Stucdies Completed
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Master Completed
【Degree】
PhD (International Studies)
Career
Hosei University Associate Professor(2019/04/01-2021/03/31)
Internatonal Chrisitian University (2018/04/01-2021/03/31)
Soka University(2019/04/01-)
Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo(2018/02/01-2019/03/31)
International University of Health and Welfare
The Sankei Shimbun Writer(1990/04/01-2006/12/31)
Year & Month of Birth
Academic Society
International Studies Association
European International Studies Association
International Political Science Association
Award
Specialities
International relations、History of thought、y Human geography
Speciality Keywords
Research Themes
Books
- Atsuko Watanabe The Palgrave Handbook on the Pedagogy of International Relations Theory Palgrave and Macmillan 2025/01
- Atsuko Watanabe Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination Palgrave and Macmillan 2019
- Kosuke Shimizu (ed.) Critical International Relations Theories in East Asia Routledge 2019
- Felix Rösch and Atsuko Watanabe (eds.) Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations Rowman & Littlefield 2018
- Marijn Nieuwenhuis, David Crouch (eds.) The Question of Space: Interrogating the Spatial Turn between Disciplines Rowman & Littlefield 2017
Papers
- Thinking through 1492: IR's Historiographic Operation(s) and the Politics of Benchmark Dates Julia Costa López,Zeynep Gülşah Çapan,Ayşe Zarakol,Atsuko Watanabe,Adhemar Mercado International Political Sociology 2024/09/30
- Socio-Spatial Multiplicity in World Politics: Non-Western Regional Imaginations of the Indo-Pacific Atsuko Watanabe International Political Sociology 2024/03/20
- Greater East Asia Geopolitics and its geopolitical imagination of a borderless world: A neglected tradition? Atsuko Watanabe POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY 67 23 2018/11
- Un(COIL)ing the Pandemic: Active and Affective Learning in Times of COVID-19 Violeta Cotoman,Annabel Davies,Nanako Kawagoe,Hana Niihashi,Aisha Rahman,Yuki Tomita,Atsuko Watanabe,Felix Roesch PS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS 55 1 188 2022/01
- Searching for a Global Solidarity: A Collective Auto-ethnography of Early-career Women Researchers in the Asia-Pacific Atsuko Watanabe,Ching-Chang Chen,Amya Agarwal International Studies Perspectives 2022/07
- Approaching the unsynthesizable in international politics: Giving substance to security discourses through basso ostinato? Felix Rosch,Atsuko Watanabe EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 23 3 609 2017/09
- A Way to Transcend Boundaries: Pluralist Theology, Shusaku Endo, and Global IR Watanabe, A. Telos 2023 202 84 2023/04
Conference Presentations
- Transcending Boundaries of Belonging: Pluralist Theology, Shusaku Endo, and Modern Japan(conference：Narratives of Belonging: Rethinking Peace for the 21st Century Workshop)(2024/12/17)
- Japan, Spheres of Influence, and the Reconstruction of the Oceanic Space in the 20th Century. (2024/10/18)
- Different Pasts, Common Future? Multiplicity, Relationality, and Japanese Political Thought(conference：17th Pan-European Conference on International Relations.)(2024/08/27)
- Roundtable: Global IR Research Methodology: Consolidating Nondualism – II(conference：17th Pan-European Conference on International Relations.)(2024/09/27)
- Japan and its Indo-Pacific Vision: Same Bed, Different Dreams?(conference：Canterbury Conference on Indo-Pacific)(2024/08/13)
- Atomizing Multiplicity? Reconceiving Difference in Relationality. (conference：International Studies Association 2024 Annual Conventio)(2024/04/05)
- The Enigmatic Raison d’Etat: the International and the Multiple Contextualisations of the Reason of State in Japan(conference：International Studies Association 2024 Annual Convention)(2024/03/04)
- Roundtable: Theorising World Politics Beyond Anarchy: Heterarchy, Hierarchy, and Relationality. (conference：International Studies Association 2024 Annual Convention)(2024/04/04)
- Historical Encounters: Analytics for Global Historical IR(conference：International Studies Association 2024 Research Workshop)(2024/04/02)
- The Indo-pacific. A non-Western Imagination. (conference：East-Asia Study Group Seminar)(2024/02/20)
- Socio-Spatial Multiplicity in World Politics: Non-Western Regional Imaginations of the Indo-Pacific. (conference：Department of Geography Seminar)(2024/02/28)
- The Enigmatic Raison d’Etat: the International and the Multiple Contextualisations of the Reason of State in Japan. (conference：16th Pan -European Conference on International Relations)(2023/09/05)
- The Enigmatic Raison d’Etat: the International and the Multiple Contextualisations of the Reason of State in Japan(conference：15th Pan-European Conference 0n International Relations 2022)(2022/09/01)
- What are We Talking about When We Talk about the Indo-Pacific?(conference：15th Pan-European Conference 0n International Relations 2022)(2022/09/01)
- Plenary Roundtable: The Interconnected Worlds of the Past and the Present: Co-constituting the International(conference：9th European Workshop in International Studies )(2022/07/06)
- The Enigmatic Raison d’Etat: the International and the Multiple Contextualisations of the Reason of State in Japan(conference：International Studies Association 2023 Annual Convention )(2023/03/14)
- The Enigmatic Raison d’Etat: the International and the Multiple Contextualisations of the Reason of State in Japan(conference：9th European Workshop in International Studies 2022)(2022/07/06)
- The Expansion of What? A Conceptual History of Empire in Japan(conference：Historical Encounters in International relations: Thinking beyond 1942)(2022/06/07)
- The Expansion of What? A Conceptual History of Empire in Japan(conference：International Studies Association 2022 Annual Convention )(2022/03/29)
- How East Asians Incorporated Western Geographic-legal Concepts: A Case Study (conference：26th IPSA Virtual World Congress of Political Science)(2021/07/15)
- Are Boundaries Surmountable? Rethinking History for a Global IR(conference：14th Pan-European Conference on International Relations )(2021/09/13)
- How East Asians Incorporated Western Geographic-legal Concepts: A Case Study(conference：14th Pan-European Conference on International Relations )(2021/09/13)
- Masao Maruyama and the Limit of Historicisation(conference：Ryukoku RIISC GARC Symposium)(2021/12/17)
Others
Arts and Fieldwork
Patent
Theme to the desired joint research
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
○「Promotion of democracy and geopolitics 」(2019-2022)
○「The Expansion of Territorialism」(2019-2022)
○「The Expansion of Territorialism. How Japan Became Part of the Modern World」(2022-2025)