Takashi Terada is a professor of international relations, Doshisha University, Kyoto. He received his Ph.D from Australian National University in 1999. Before taking up his current position in April 2012, he was an assistant professor at National University of Singapore (1999-2006) and associate and full professor at Waseda University (2006-2011). He also has served as a visiting fellow at University of Warwick, U.K. (2011 and 2012) and a public policy Scholar at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. (2012). His areas of specialty include international political economy in Asia and the Pacific, theoretical and empirical studies of Asian regionalism and regional integration, and Japanese politics and foreign policy. He is the author of “East Asian and Asia-Pacific Regional Integration: Institutional and Normative Competitions among Great-powers” (University of Tokyo Press, 2013 in Japanese), and publishes his articles from major international academic journals including The Pacific Review, Contemporary Politics, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Studio Diplomatica, International Negotiation, and Asia Pacific Economic Papers. He has been regularly consulted on international affairs by Japanese government and its agencies. He is the recipient of the 2005 J.G. Crawford Award.