Shuhei Kurizaki

Terasaki Center For Japanese Studies

Established in 1991, the UCLA Terasaki Center has been a platform for research on Japan. Our distinguished faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and the board of advisors have been contributing to the field of Japanese studies for over 20 years.

Faculty Board of Advisors Chair in US-Japan Relations Postdoctoral Fellows Alumni

Students Visitors Staff Supporters Dr. Paul I. Terasaki

The Terasaki Center sponsors a vast array of events throughout the year. With its colloquium series, the Center brings academics from diverse fields to UCLA each year. Special workshops and annual conferences bring leading scholars to discuss topics relating to Japan.

Center News Annual Newsletter

Center Events Community Events Past Events

The Center is proud to support our faculty, current and prospective students, and the local community through a variety of grants and fellowships.

Internal Funding
Learn more and apply for Center funding here.

External Funding
Funding sources in this section are not administered by the Center.

Center programs were established with strong support from the local community to promote research and instruction in Japanese studies, with a recent focus on the profound transformations unfolding in contemporary Japanese society.

UCLA Japanese Studies
Programs by Faculty and Students

Global Japan Initiative
Understanding Japan/Japanese culture within a global context.

The Terasaki Center is actively expanding support for faculty and graduate students, building relationships with other universities as well as Japan and Japanese Studies related organizations, and enhancing its role in the community.

Mission & History
Digital Archive

Global Hub
The Center is dedicated to connecting Japanese communities around the world with those engaged in the study of Japan and the Japanese.

DONATE Your gift can make a difference to Japanese studies at UCLA!

global japan initiative Understanding Japan/Japanese
culture within a global context

Shuhei Kurizaki

Associate Professor, Waseda University

Political Science PhD, 2007
http://www.f.waseda.jp/kurizaki/

I am an associate professor in the School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Before taking up this position, I was an assistant professor in the department of political science at Texas A&M University and a Pre-Doctoral Fellow in National Security at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. My primary research interests are diplomacy, the origins of war and peace, and political economy. I am the recipient of the Carl Beck Award, given by the International Studies Association in 2005, the Dina Zinnes Award, given by the Scientific Study of International Processes (SSIP) Section of the International Studies Association in 2006, and the Miyake Ichiro Award for the best article published in 2007 by Japanese political scientists. My work recently appeared in the American Political Science Review and International Organization among others. My courses explore international relations, the causes of war and peace, the history of diplomacy, and formal models in political science.

I am currently working on a book manuscript, When Diplomacy Works, which explores when and why diplomacy facilitates (and sometimes hinders) peaceful settlements of international disputes. This book (1) describes a natural history of diplomacy and its institutions to identify several distinctive classes of diplomatic mechanisms at work in international conflict and (inter)national security strategy, (2) maps each mechanism onto a well-established (game-theoretic) model of international conflict, and (3) examines how, why, and when each mechanism shapes conflict behavior and outcomes through the combination of game-theoretic analysis, statistical analysis, and historical analysis. Providing a micro-foundational explanation for three distinctive classes of diplomatic mechanisms (communication, negotiation, and manipulation), this book presents the first comprehensive theory of diplomatic statecraft.