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KAWANAKA Takeshi
Professor, Faculty of International Relations, Asia University
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PROFILE
KAWANAKA Takeshi is Professor of Political Science at Asia University, Japan. His research focuses on political regimes, political economy, and Southeast Asian politics. He authored Competition and Order: Democratic Dilemma in Southeast Asia (2022, in Japanese) and co-authored Political Determinants of Income Inequality in Emerging Democracies (2016). He was Director-General of the Area Studies Center at the Institute of Developing Economies and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, the University of the Philippines, and Ateneo de Manila University. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Law from Waseda University and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Kobe University.
