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Shuhei Kurizaki (PhD, UCLA) is an associate professor in the School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University. Before joining the faculty at Waseda in 2013, he was a pre-doctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies (2005-2006) and assistant professor in the department of political science at Texas A&M University (2006-2013). His work has appeared in American Political Science Review and International Organization among other outlets. His current research

1. develops and tests formal models to explain how and when diplomacy works in international conflict,
2. utilizes big data to examine political impacts of the shifting structure of the globalized networks of production and capital flows,
3. assesses the strategic consequences of Japan’s changing defense policy and its implications for national security, and
4. develops game theoretic models for a new nuclear strategy.

Professor Kurizaki and his research team won the Conference Awards in two consequtive years (2021 and 2022), given by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, for their research on a model and algorithm called ``NPI’’ (Network Power Index) to analyze the global landscape of the corporate ownership and control. He is also the winner 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 in 2008. His courses explore the causes of war and peace, the history of diplomacy, and formal political theory. His courses are popular among Waseda students and he has received teaching awards three times in 2014, 2017, and 2024.

He serves on the advisory committee for the defense minister of the Japanese government, as a nonresident scholar at the Ministry of Finance, Japan, and as visiting associate professor at the National Institute for Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. Professor Kurizaki is also an Editor-in-Chief for Japanese Journal of Political Science.

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