KURAISHI Haruna
| KURAISHI Haruna |
| [Belonging・Position] | Inter-disciplinary Studies Center, Environment and Natural Resource Studies Group |
| [Research Field] | International Relations, Comparative Politics |
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Previous research
I am currently a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo. My areas of specialism include international institutional theory, international river governance, natural resource governance, decolonisation, Historical International Relations, and the relationship between knowledge and power. Since my master’s programme, I have pursued research with a strong interest in challenges of climate security in regions such as Central Asia, East Africa, and Southeast Asia, as well as in the historical formation of institutions governing the international rivers that flow through these regions.
Current research projects
The main keywords that capture my current research are the “formation and choice of international institutions”, “decolonisation”, and “international rivers”. Focusing primarily on Central Asia (former Soviet republics) and East Africa (former British colonies), I examine—drawing mainly on historical materials from both the pre- and post-independence periods—how river governance institutions among newly independent states were negotiated and established as empires dissolved and rivers that had previously been managed within imperial polities became transboundary rivers flowing between sovereign states. In addition to the process of institutional formation itself, I also explore why newly independent states choose institutional designs—for example, differences in membership size such as bilateral versus multilateral arrangements. Rather than understanding the origins of such choices solely in terms of system-level factors, I focus on more micro-level dynamics. Specifically, I examine expert communities that had been involved in river management prior to independence and that exerted knowledge-based influence during treaty negotiations, and I seek to clarify how their knowledge was formed and how it shaped institutional design after independence.
Affiliation Society
International Studies Association、British International Studies Association