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).