Dr. Timur Dadabaev is a Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Special Program for Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
Professor, Seikei University, Japan
Dr. Kei Hakata is a full-time professor at Seikei University in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in international politics and security affairs. He is also an adjunct researcher at Waseda University in Japan. He holds a doctorate degree from the University of Nancy II in France. Before joining Seikei University in 2005, he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Professor Hakata was also a visiting scholar at Ateneo de Manila University, Oxford University, Hungary’s Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade, and National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan/R.O.C. His publications include Indo-Pacific Strategies: Navigating Geopolitics at the Dawn of a New Age (co-edited with Brendon J. Cannon, Routledge) and its Japanese edition (Chuokoron Shinsha).
