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TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES Graduate School of Global Studies 3-11-1 Asahi-cho, Fuchu-shi Tokyo 183-8534 JAPAN |
Yasuyuki Matsunaga
professor
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Curriculum Vitae [PDF]
丒Email: matsunaga@tufs.ac.jp
Please send all admissions-related queries to the university乫s admission office [gao@tufs.ac.jp]. I will not respond to admission-related email queries, including requests for supervision. We do not give out pre-admission consent, and you won乫t need any such consent from faculty members to apply for admission at TUFS.
丒Office Hours: 12:00-12:30, Monday, Tuesday and Friday (Room 524 or otherwise indicated)
丒Departmental Affiliation: Graduate Program in Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS)
丒Research Center Affiliation: Interdisciplinary Research Unit for Global Democratic Change (GDC)
丒Conflict, Contentious Politics, and Political Change
丒Comparative Political Regimes and Democratization
丒Politics and Culture
丒Qualitative Social Science Theories and Methodologies
*Please send all admissions-related queries to the university乫s admission office [gao@tufs.ac.jp]. I will not respond to email queries.
*Please also note that I will not be able to supervise students who enter our doctoral programs directly.
Research Interest & Specialization
丒Contentious Politics and Democratization in Iran and the greater Middle East
丒Islam and Politics in Iran and the greater Middle East
丒Dynamics of Sectarian Conflict in the greater Middle East
丒Postrevivalist Reformist Islamic Trends and Thinkers
丒Historical Trajectories of Desecularization and Resecularization in Iran and the greater Middle East
丒Ph.D. (political science), New York University, 2006. [dissertation]
丒M.A. (international studies), University of South Carolina, 1994.
丒B.A. (Islamic studies), University of Tokyo, 1987.
Courses [offered
in English]
<graduate seminars>
丒PCS Research Methodology: An Introduction to Conflict and Contentious Politics (Fall)
丒Conflict and Social Change: An Advanced Seminar on Conflict and Contentious Politics (Spring) –2023 Syllabus
丒Thesis Seminar: Thesis Structure and Research (Fall)
丒Comparative Politics: PCS PhD Seminar (Fall)
丒Reforming Islamist Iran: Religion, Intellectuals, and Politics in the Rafsanjani-Khatami Years. Book Manuscript.
Upcoming/Recent
Conference Presentations
丒 (with Sohrab Ahmadian) 乬An Anatomy of Islamic Awakening in Iranian Ouramanat: the Case of Naser Sobhani,乭 Kurdish Studies Conference, University of Sheffield, 22-23 May 2024
丒 乬Dissecting Ethnonational Undertones in Minority Religious Movements in Iran,乭 The Nation as a Sacred Communion? Religion, Legacies, Conflict, IPSA RC14 & RC43 Colloquium, Queen乫s University Belfast, June 1, 2023
丒 乬Dissecting Multilayered Insurgencies: A Relational, Genealogical and Decolonial Perspective,乭 Decolonizing Kurdish Studies Initiative Workshops, Brown University Center for Middle East Studies & Yale MacMillan Center Council on Middle East Studies, Online, April 8, 2022
丒 (with Umut Azak) 乬The State Regulations of Minority Religions in Comparative Perspective,乭 35ème SISR CONFÉRENCE BIENNALE: The Politics of Religion and Spirituality, BARCELONA, July 11-12, 2019.
丒 乬A Processual Sociological Perspective on Sectarian Insurgency in Iran's Two Border Areas,乭 the 乬Rethinking Nationalism, Sectarianism and Ethno-Religious Mobilization in the Middle East乭 Conference, St. Antony乫s College and Pembroke College, University of Oxford, January 28, 2018 .
丒 乬Reconciling Islamic Constitutionalism with Pragmatic Governance: What Does the Iranian Experience Offer?乭 Conference on Religion and the State, hosted by The Arab Association of Constitutional Law, Tunis, Tunisia, March 24, 2017.
丒 乬Resisting Resecularization in Post-Khomeini Iran,乭 International Workshop 乬Imagining an Alternative 乪Post-Secular乫 State: Historicizing and Comparing National Struggles over Resecularization,乭 Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, February 17, 2017. <program>
丒 乬Religion, Violence, and the Politics of Sanctified Punishment: A Case of Iran乫s Islamic State,乭 111th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (Regular Session: Redefining the Public Sphere in the Middle East), Seattle, August 21, 2016.
丒 乬Khomeinism: the Non-Obvious Constraints on Political Reform in Iran,乭 Cultures of Freedom and Contending Visions of Justice and Governance in the Muslim World Symposium, University of Sydney, Australia, April 2015 (site).
丒 乬Theorizing Cross-National Conflict Non-Diffusion: Why Sectarian Violence Doesn't Spread Beyond National Borders in the Greater Middle East,乭 Fourth World Congress for Middle East Studies, Ankara, Turkey, August 2014.
Select Publications (also visit Google
Scholar, Academia.edu,
SSRN, and ORCID)
丒乬The Myth of
Vertical Integration in Regional Conflict: Iran and the 乪Axis of Resistance,乫乭
Chapter 8 of Gaza
Nakba 2023–2024: Background, Context, Consequences, ed.
Hiroyuki Suzuki and Keiko Sakai (Springer Singapore, January 2025). ISBN
978-981-97-4867-9 [full
text] [Online]DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-4868-6_8
丒乬Review Essay: (Theological and Institutional Soul-searching Aside) Will Re-problematizing Iran乫s Islamic State à la 乪Religious Secularity乫 Require Another Islamic State?乭 Journal of Religious and Political Practice 3, 1-2 (2017): 84-87. [full text]
[Online] DOI: 10.1080/20566093.2017.1292173
丒乬Islamic Dissent in Iran乫s full-fledged Islamic Revolutionary State,乭 in Between Dissent and Power: The Transformation of Islamic politics in the Middle East and Asia, ed. Khoo Boo Teik, Vedi R. Hadiz, and Yoshihiro Nakanishi (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014), 66-88. [publisher site] [full text]
[Online] DOI: 10.1057/9781137408808_4
丒乬Iran乫s Strategic Culture and the Hegemony Question,乭 International Relations, 167 (2012), 42-56.
[Online] DOI: 10.11375/kokusaiseiji.167_42
丒乬Human Rights and New Jurisprudence in Mohsen Kadivar乫s Advocacy of 乪New-Thinker乫 Islam,乭 Die Welt des Islams, 51, 3-4 (2011), 358-381. [full text]
[Online] DOI: 10.1163/157006011X603541
丒乬The Secularization of a Faqih-headed Revolutionary Islamic State of Iran: Its Mechanisms, Processes, and Prospects,乭 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 29, 3 (2009), 468-482. [full text]
[Online] DOI: 10.1215/1089201X-2009-032
丒乬Popular Sovereignty and Republicanism in Iran乫s Postrevolutionary Electoral Democracy,乭 in Development of Parliamentarism in the Modern Islamic World, ed. Sato Tsugitaka (Tokyo: The Toyo Bunko, 2009), 134-153. [full text]
丒乬Revisiting Ayatollah Khomeini乫s Doctrine of Wilayat al-Faqih (Velayat-e Faqih),乭 Orient, 44 (2009), 77-90. [full text]
[Online] DOI: 10.5356/orient.44.77
丒乬Political Parties,乭 in Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic, ed. Mehran Kamrava and Manochehr Dorraj (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008), 390-394. [bookseller][full text]
丒乬Mohsen Kadivar, an Advocate of Postrevivalist Islam in Iran,乭 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 34, 3 (2007), 319-329. [full text]
[Online] DOI: 10.1080/13530190701388333
丒乬The Middle East in International Relations,乭 International Relations, 141 (2005), 1-9.
[Online] DOI: 10.11375/kokusaiseiji1957.141_1
丒乬Examining the Views of 乪Allamah Majlisi on Legitimate Political Authority (salatanat-i mashru乪ah) and the Guardianship of the Jurist (wilayat-i faqih),乭 Orient, 35 (2000), 12-22. [full text]
[Online] DOI: 10.5356/orient1960.35.12
Reprinted in Faslnameh-ye Andisheh-ye Dini (Journal of Religious
Thought), Vol.
2, Issue 5, Winter 2001, Pages 163-176.
丒乬L乫État rentier est-il réfractaire à la décmoractie?,乭 Critique international, 8 (2000), 45-68. [full text]
[Online] DOI:
10.3406/criti.2000.1439
Short Analytical Essays (a.k.a., blog posts)
丒乬Is Iran Seeking Regional Hegemony?乭 Atlantic Council乫s IranInsight (April 12, 2016)
Interviews
丒乬Power is notoriously unevenly distributed,乭 an interview with Tehran Times (March 15, 2021) [PDF]
丒乬From Tokyo to Tehran,乭 an interview in Persian with the staff of The Majles Library of Iran (May 7, 2016).
丒American Political Science Association (APSA) – section memberships: comparative politics, comparative democratization
丒American Sociological Association (ASA) – section memberships: political sociology, comparative historical sociology, sociology of culture, middle east sociology working group (MESWG)
丒International Political Science Association (IPSA)
丒Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA)
丒Association for Iranian Studies (AIS)
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