Tomoko Takahashi, Ph.D.
Tomoko Takahashi is an Assistant Professor at Kyoto University.
In the field of International Relations, she studies international institutions from the perspective of states, with an emphasis on East and Southeast Asia. Her projects are on the dynamics of norm-initiating behavior in the context of power politics, state autonomy, coalition politics and international bureaucrats. Methodologically, she uses statistical analysis, multilinguistic archival research and interviews.
She was a Visiting Researcher at WZB Berlin Social Science Center (Global Governance Unit, September-October 2023). She received her Ph.D. (2023), M.A. (2018), LL.B. (2016) at the University of Tokyo, and another M.A. (with Honors, 2020) at the University of Chicago, and was a Visiting Student at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, 2017).
since 10/2023
Assistant Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
9-10.2023
Guest Researcher, Global Governance Unit, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
06/2023
Ph.D., Advanced Social and International Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
04/2023
Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
06/2020
M.A. (with Honors Distinction), International Relations, The Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Selected Publications
2023
Takahashi, Tomoko. 2023. Power Gap-Driven Draft Resolutions: Sponsorship Behavior of China as a Major Power in the United Nations General Assembly [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Tokyo [in English].
2022
Takahashi, Tomoko. “Two Questions of Sovereignty: China and the Global South in the United Nations General Assembly (1971-1990)” [in English, sole author]. Submitted to “Making and Breaking Global Order in the Twentieth Century (INVISIHIST Conference)” at Leiden University, October 15, 2022.
Takahashi, Tomoko, Sanae Suzuki, and Taku Yukawa. 2022. “Measuring the Influence of Executive Heads in International Organizations —Illustrative Analysis on the Effects of Democratic Density—”. IDE Discussion Paper No. 850, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), JETRO: 1-39 [in English, co-authored].
2021
Takahashi, Tomoko. “Rising and Leading: China with the G77 at the United Nations General Assembly (October 1, 2021)”. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3944408 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3944408 [in English, sole author].
2020
Takahashi, Tomoko. 2020. Inconspicuousness in International Institutions: Analyses of the United Nations General Assembly Roll Call Votes [Master’s Thesis with Honors]. University of Chicago [in English].