Visiting Associate Professor / Associate Professor (Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Meiji Gakuin University)
Masaki Mizobuchi
Political, military and security issues in the Middle East region, Islamic political movements, International relations concerning the Middle East region, U.S. strategy in the Middle East
Born in Kagawa Prefecture in 1984. Withdrew from the doctoral program in Area Studies at Sophia University Graduate School of Global Studies after completing coursework. Doctor of Regional Studies. After serving as a researcher at Harvard University and an associate professor at Hiroshima University, he assumed his current position.
Major publications include: What Is America's Middle East Strategy? Oil, War, and Alliances (Keio University Press, 2025); “Fragile Stability” as a Political Background of October 7: Current and Foreseeable Issues in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (co-authored, Springer, 2025); Digital Authoritarianism: How Technology Transforms the “Form” of Dictatorship (co-authored, Fuyo Shobo Publishing, 2024), The US-China Rivalry and the Future of the International Order: Intersecting Worlds and Regions (co-authored, Toshinodo, 2024), The Origins of Alliances: Balancing Threats in International Politics (co-translated, Minerva Shobo, 2021), among others.
Major publications include: What Is America's Middle East Strategy? Oil, War, and Alliances (Keio University Press, 2025); “Fragile Stability” as a Political Background of October 7: Current and Foreseeable Issues in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (co-authored, Springer, 2025); Digital Authoritarianism: How Technology Transforms the “Form” of Dictatorship (co-authored, Fuyo Shobo Publishing, 2024), The US-China Rivalry and the Future of the International Order: Intersecting Worlds and Regions (co-authored, Toshinodo, 2024), The Origins of Alliances: Balancing Threats in International Politics (co-translated, Minerva Shobo, 2021), among others.