Shuhei Kurizaki
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I am an
associate professor in the School
of Political Science and Economics at Waseda
University in Tokyo, Japan. Before taking up this position, I was an assistant
professor in the department of political science at Texas A&M University
and a Pre-Doctoral Fellow in National Security at the John M. Olin Institute for
Strategic Studies at Harvard University. My primary research interests are diplomacy,
the origins of war and peace, and political economy. I am the recipient of the Carl Beck Award,
given by the International Studies Association in 2005, the Dina Zinnes Award, given by the Scientific Study of
International Processes (SSIP) Section of the International Studies
Association in 2006, and the Miyake
Ichiro Award for the best article published in 2007 by Japanese political
scientists. My work recently appeared in the American Political Science
Review and International
Organization among others. My courses
explore international relations, the causes of war and peace, the history of
diplomacy, and formal models in political science.
I am currently working on a book manuscript, When
Diplomacy Works, which explores when and why diplomacy facilitates
(and sometimes hinders) peaceful settlements of international disputes. This
book (1) describes a natural history of diplomacy and its institutions to
identify several distinctive classes of diplomatic mechanisms at work in
international conflict and (inter)national security strategy, (2) maps each
mechanism onto a well-established (game-theoretic) model of international
conflict, and (3) examines how, why, and when each mechanism shapes conflict
behavior and outcomes through the combination of game-theoretic analysis,
statistical analysis, and historical analysis. Providing a micro-foundational
explanation for three distinctive classes of diplomatic mechanisms
(communication, negotiation, and manipulation), this book presents the first
comprehensive theory of diplomatic statecraft.
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