Speaker
OSHIBA Ryo
Affliation
Hiroshima Peace Institute
Title
Director
Session

Biography

Director of Hiroshima Peace Institute and Dean of Graduate School of Peace Studies, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan

Field of Study: International Relations and International Political Economy

<Academic Experiences>
- 2019 - Present Professor, Hiroshima Peace Institute and Graduate School of Peace Studies, Hiroshima
- 2016 - 2018 Director, International Center, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo
- 2015 - 2019 Professor, School of International Politics, Economics and Communication, Aoyama Gakuin University

- 2010 - 2014 Vice-President for International Activities, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
- 2008 - 2010 Dean, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University
- 2006 - 2008 Dean, School of International and Public Policy, Hitotsubashi University
- 1994 Professor, Department of Law, Hitotsubashi University
- 1993 Visiting Fellow, Center for International Studies, Princeton University
- 1991- 93 Visiting Scholar, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University
- 1987 Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Hitotsubashi University
- 1983 Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Sophia University, Tokyo

<Academic Background>
- 1989 Ph.D. (Yale University, Political Science)
- 1978 M.A.(Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University)
- 1976 B. A. (Department of Law, Hitotsubashi University)

<Publications>
- Global Governance and Power Politics (co-editor with N. Akiyama, K.Obayashi and A. Yamada, Yuhikaku,
2019, in Japanese).
- “Multilateral Diplomacy and Multilateralism: The United Nations, the G8, the G20, and the Bretton Woods
Institutions” 2015 (http://www2.jiia.or.jp/en/digital_library/japan_s_diplomacy.php)
- Japan’s Diplomacy (vol. 5, Foreign Policy by Issues, editor, Iwanami Shoten 2013, in Japanese)
- “A Japanese View of the EU” Perspectives: Review of International Affairs, vol. 20, no.2, 2012, pp. 103-
128.
- NGO’s Views of the World Bank, co-editor with Satoru Matsumoto, Minerva Shobo, 2013, in Japanese)
International Studies Beyond National Borders (co-editor with Yoshiko Kojo and Atsushi Ishida, Yuhikaku,
2009, in Japanese)
- “Globalization and Education Japan: The Case of Junior High School History Textbooks” in Jim Dator,
Dick Praff and Yongseok Seo eds., Globalization, Fairness, and Public Institutions, University of Hawaii
Press, April 2006.
- Pearl Harbour as Memory (co-editor with Chihiro Hosoya and Akira Iriye, Minerva, 2004, in Japanese).
- “We the People” in the Global Age: A Re-examination of Nationalism and Citizenship (co-edited with
Edward Rhodes and Chieko Kitagawa Otsuru, 2000, in English)
- Political Economy of International Organizations (author, 1994, Yuhikaku, in Japanese)

<Professional Service>
- 2004-2006: President, The Japan Association of International Relations
- 2002-2004: Vice-President, The Japan Association of International Relations
- Present: Managing Committee Member of Japan Association for United Nations Studies, Councilor of
the Japan Association of International Relations, Board Member of “Friends of the Earth Japan”.