CV and Research

Kosuke TOGASHI/Косукэ ТОГАШИ
Associate professor, Department of Policy Studies,
Deputy Director of Center for Regional Conflict Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto, JAPAN

1) Conflict Research (I.R., Comparative Politics)

The mechanism and dynamics of armed conflict, intervention in conflict regions, Peacebuilding, conflict transformation, etc.

2) Area Studies in the post-Soviet region

Caucasus, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Nagorno Karabakh, etc.

Biography

April 2003 - March 2007　Department of International Relations, the Faculty of International Cultures, Yokohama City University (B.A. of International Studies)

April 2007 - March 2009　Department of Islamic Area and Cultural Studies, Division of Area Studies, the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University (M.A. of International Culture)

April 2009 - March 2012　Department of Advanced Social and International Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
December 2012　Ph.D., International Relations, The University of Tokyo

Research Career

April 2010 - March 2012

　 The Research Fellow DC* of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (supervisor: Kazuo NAKAI )

April 2012 - March 2015
　 The Research Fellow PD* of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (supervisor: Atsushi ISHIDA)

April 2010 - March 2017
　 The Research Fellow of Institute of Eurasian Studies

April 2017- March 2020
Lecturer, Department of International Studies, Faculty of Humanity and Culture, Tokai University

April 2020- Present
Associate Professor, School of Policy Studies, Doshisha University

Books

Conflicts in the Caucasus: Nations and Peoples in Turmoil, TOYO SHOTEN SHINSHA [in Japanese]

published in March 2021、ISBN:978-4773420401

Chechnya: Failure of Peace Consolidation and Mechanism of Conflict Recurrence, AKASHI Shoten[in Japanese]

published in Dec 2015、ISBN:9784750342863

Caucasus: a region between war and peace, Toyo Shoten（Eurasian booklet series No.171） [in Japanese]
Published in April 2012、ISBN:9784864590365

Co-authors book

67 chapters for understanding Azerbaijan, AKASHI Shoten [in Japanese]
published in May 2018、ISBN:9784750346724

Modern Russian Politics, HORITSU BUNKA SHA [in Japanese]
published in Aug 2023、ISBN:978-4589042798

Academic Papers

・"The Dynamics and Mechanisms of the Chechen Conflict: Analytical Framework for the Conflict and Review of Existing Research,"[in Japanese] Russian and Eurasian Societies, No. 1053.

・"Changes in a "state" sought by a minority: The current situation and key issues in Chechnya under the Kadyrov regime" [in Japanese] Russian and East European Studies (47), pp.81-97, March 2019

・"Power transition in Uzbekistan, the process from president death to inauguration of new president under Authoritarian regime," [in Japanese] Journal of Russia-Eurasian Economy and Society (1029), pp.2-21, June 2018

・"The Mechanism of Commitment Problems of Separatist Conflicts in Post-Cold War Era: Analysis of Negotiations between Russia Federation and Separatist Regions by using 2 Level Game Theory" [in Japanese], Journal of the School of Humanities and Culture, Tokai University (48), pp.75-105, March 2017, with Hiroaki MOHRI (Co-author)

・"The Decline of Ethnonational Islamic Movement in Eurasia: An Impact of "Islamic State" on Existing States, Territory, and Ethnic Groups"[in Japanese], PRIME, MEIJI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY, (39) pp.15-31, Jan. 2016

・"Risks of Conflict Recurrence and Conditions for Prevention: The Paradox of Peacebuilding" Asia Peacebuilding Initiative, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Aug. 2015[URL]

・"Analytical point for understanding security situation in North Caucasus,"[in Japanese], Journal of Russia-Eurasian Economy and Society, (994), 2-16, June 2015

・"Caucasus Emirate" and "Islamic State": Why "Chechens" are fighting in Syria and Iraq,[in Japanese] Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Journal of Middle East Institution of Japan), 522, 2014 Vol.III

・"Why "Second Revolution happened in Kyrgyzstan": Reconsideration about cause and process of revolution," [in Japanese], Journal of Russia-Eurasian Economy and Society (974), Oct 2013

・"The Kyrgyz Republic after "Second Revolution": A Sketch from Internal and External Views,"[in Japanese] Eurasian Studies, No.48, 2013 May

・"The Emergence Process of "Islamization" as a Political Issue in Chechen Republic (1997-99), " [in Japanese], Journal of Russia-Eurasian Economy and Society (961), Sep 2012

・"Unrecognized Quasi-States" and Problems with Peacebuilding: "Foreign Policy" of the Maskhadov Regime of the Chechen Republic, 1997-99, "[in Japanese] International Relations (Journal of The Japan Association of International Relations), volume 165, July 2010

・"The Political Crisis and Its Background in Republic of Ingushetia: The problem of Kremlin's policy against North Caucasus," [in Japanese], Journal of Russia-Eurasian Economy and Society, No.937, Sep. 2010

・"A Consideration about First Chechen War through Socio-Cultural Causes of the Conflict: Problem concerning the significance and evaluation of socio-cultural feature,"[in Japanese] Intercultural (Annual Review of Japan Society for Intercultural Studies), No.8, March 2010

・"The Political, Economic and Social Structures of Chechnya in the USSR Era: Understanding the Chechen War from Structure before the War"[in Japanese], Journal of International Cultural Studies,(Tohoku University, graduate school of International Cultural Studies) Vol.16, March 2010