STUDIES ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

About “Studies on International Relations”

“Studies on International Relations” is an academic journal with peer reviews. It is published under the auspices of the Association of International Relations Studies. The papers published in this journal deal with a wide range of topics, such as international politics; international law; the international economy; and the history of international society. While papers are subject to stringent peer review prior to publication, the requirement pertaining to the word count limit of papers is relatively lenient, thus enabling the journal to serve as a valuable platform for researchers and students to publish their works.

Past Issues (Open Access) are available here（UTokyo Repository）.

Latest Issue: Volume 39（September, 2024）

The political Economy of Modern Japanese Trade Policy: Focusing on the Period of Restoring Trariff-Setting Autonomy (Iku Yoshimoto)
Between Regimes: A Preliminary Study of the Political Process after Democratic Revolution (Kaori Kushima)
L’Institut de Droit International (IDI) and the Pre-World War I Codification of the Laws and Customs of War in Relation to the Hague Peace Conference (Merisa Harada)

Call for Papers!

The Association of International Relations Studies is calling for the submission of papers. In order to qualify, papers should meet the criteria listed below (Please click here for further details).

The author of the paper should be a member of the Association of International Relations Studies.

Papers submitted to the Association will be subject to the evaluation and editing of the Association’s editorial committee. Peer reviews will be conducted anonymously, and by several members including outside reviewers.

The author will be notified about the result of evaluation within 2 months. It is possible that the author may be requested to revise and re-submit his/her paper in the process.

The paper submitted should be about 100 pages in length, each page containing about 400 words (in the case of Japanese). The medium of language should be in principle Japanese or English.

Please submit your paper to “The Association of International Relations Studies Editorial Committee”, Department of Advanced Social and International Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba Meguro ku Tokyo 153-8902.

Back Issues

Colonial Policy Studies in Global International Thought: A Method of Inter-imperial Ideological Circulation (Tomohito Baji)
Minoru Oka and International Labour Disputrs in the Newly Established ILO: The Establishment of International Labour Standards and Strstified Structure of the International Relations (Hajime Onozaka)
The Political History of Japanese-Soviet Cooperation on the Siberian Development: With Special Focus on the Period of Kakuei Tanaka’s Administration (Binbing Zhang)

Yasaka Takagi before and after World War II : Considering Democracy through the United States (Katsumasa Takebayashi)
Immunity Ratione Materiae of State Offi cials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction : Focusing on the Rationale of Immunity (Keiichiro Niikura)

The International Labour Organization, the International Trade Unions Movement, and the Christian Socialist Movement from the Sino-Japanese War to the Second World War: An International Cooperation in Support of “Raising Standards of Living” as the Allied War Aim (Hajime Onozaka)

What is Anarchy in Relations between States? (Taku Yukawa)
Between Multilateralism and Bilateralism: An Empirical Study on Change of Means of U.S. Balance of Payments Support (Masafumi Fujita)
VCLT at ICC and its Implications: How the Basis for Adopting the “Control Theory” has recently changed (Yuki Kitajima)

Between ‘Ideals’ and ‘Reality’: Masashi Ishibashi and U.S.-Japan Mutual Security (Akiho Yasuda)
‘Globalization’ and Agricultural Subsidy: Comparing the Change of Agricultural Subsidy System between Japan and Korea (Kyungmi Kim)

Possibilities and Limitations of the ICJ Procedure in Promoting Common Interests Protected by Multilateral Treaty Regimes(Kanaho Imaoka)
The Functional Approach in Post-war Planning: From the League of Nations to the War-time Food Co-operation and the FAO(Kayo Takuma)

The Relationship between Substantive Obligation and Procedural Obligation to Notify and Consult and in the Law of International Watercourses: The position and function of the procedural obligation to notify and consult (Naoshige Sakamoto)
Origin of Collective Defense in the U.S.–Japan Alliance: Negotiating the Process for Devising Combined Military Plans (Mayumi Itayama)
The Rationale of “Absolute Immunity” in England and America‐through the Analysis of Proceedings in Rem against Public Ships（Keiichiro Niikura）

Formation and Its Theoretical Collapse of the Doctrine of Jurisdictional Immunity: The Legal Structure of the System Based on the Non-Intervention Principle（Keiichiro Niikura）
Japanese Diplomacy and the Making of International Jurisdiction in Interwar Period: Negotiations over Compulsory Arbitration in Treaties and PCIJ（Kenji Banjo）
What is a “Treaty”? Power and Duty in the Concepts of Treaty（Amuro Wakasa）
A Tale of Two Aggregations and Disaggregations: The Micro-Level Turn in the Civil War Study（Gaku Ito）

Universalizing the League of Nations: Expansion of the Council in 1926 and the Chaco Dispute（Shunsuke Obiya）
A Review of the Impact of FDI Activity on Firm Performance: From the Perspective of Profitability toward the Perspective of Firm Longevity（Ying-Chih Wang）
Multi-Agent Simulations in International Relations: Bridging Theoretical and Empirical Studies（Gaku Ito）

Transforming Domestic Regulatory Systems with International Institutions: the Domestic Effects of the Basel Accord（Iku Yoshimoto）
The Opium Smuggling Problem in Hong Kong during the Inter-War Period: British Attitudes toward H. M. H. Nemazee（Tatsuya Koizumi）
Piracy in International Law from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century: Difference between Insurgents and Pirates（Naoyuki Kanno）

About “Studies on International Relations”

Latest Issue: Volume 39（September, 2024）

Call for Papers!

Back Issues

Volume 38 (September, 2023)

Volume 37 (September 2022)

Volume 36 (March, 2022)

Volume 35 (March 2021)

Volume 34 (March, 2019)

Volume 33 (March, 2018)

Volume 32 (March, 2016)

Volume 31 (March, 2015)

Volume 30 (September, 2013)

Volume 29 (September, 2012)