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Hideaki Shinoda
しのだ ひであき
Shinoda Hideaki
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1968-01-01 (Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan)
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese, English
- Residence History
- Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan → Hiroshima, Japan → Tokyo, Japan
Career
- Occupations
- international relations scholar, peace studies scholar, university professor
- Active Years
- 1993-
- Affiliations
- Hiroshima University, Peace Science Center, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Graduate School of Global Studies
- Memberships
- Japan Association of International Law, Japanese Association of International Relations, Japan Association for Peace Studies
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waseda University | Faculty of Political Science and Economics | — | 学士 | — | Japan |
| Waseda University Graduate School of Political Science | — | Graduate School of Political Science | 修士 | — | Japan |
| London School of Economics (LSE) | — | International Relations | Ph.D. | — | United Kingdom |
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Osaragi Jiro Forum Prize | Peacebuilding and the Rule of Law | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2012 | Suntory Academic Award | The Idea of 'State Sovereignty' | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2017 | Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo Prize | The Intellectual History of Collective Self-Defense | — | — | 受賞 |
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Rising Sun and Volunteers: A 24-year-old in Cambodia PKO
1994 non-fictionA memoir of early PKO participation, recounting election monitoring in Cambodia and offering perspectives on international peace operations.
Peacebuilding and the Rule of Law: Theoretical and Functional Analysis of International Peace Operations
2003 academicA scholarly analysis of the relationship between international peace operations (such as PKO) and the rule of law from theoretical and functional perspectives.
The Idea of 'State Sovereignty'
2012 academicExamines the historical development of the idea of state sovereignty and its meaning in the contemporary world.
The Real Constitution: Critique of Postwar Japanese Constitutional Studies
2017 essays/criticismA critical examination of postwar Japanese constitutional scholarship, introducing the notion of 'resistance constitutionalism' among other arguments.
Bibliography
- The Rising Sun and Volunteers: A 24-year-old in Cambodia PKO (1994)
- Re-examining Sovereignty: from Classical Theory to the Global Age (2000)
- Peacebuilding and the Rule of Law (2003)
- The Idea of 'State Sovereignty' (2012)
- Introduction to Peacebuilding: Reexamining Its Ideas and Methods (2013)
- The Intellectual History of Collective Self-Defense: Article 9 and Japan-US Security (2016)
- The Real Constitution: Critique of Postwar Japanese Constitutional Studies (2017)
- The Illness of Constitutional Studies (2019)
- The Geopolitics of War (2023)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- analytical and argumentative styleclear exposition linking policy and theory
- Recurring Motifs
- focus on international lawrelationship between peacebuilding and lawreexamination of sovereignty and international order
Legacy
A scholar who bridges theory and practice in international relations and peace studies. His critiques of constitutional studies and work on peacebuilding have stimulated debate domestically and internationally.
Academic Societies
- Japan Association of International Law
- Japanese Association of International Relations
- Japan Association for Peace Studies
Quotes
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The community of constitutional scholars, compared with other disciplines, shows a pronounced pyramid-shaped power structure centered on the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law.
Source: Preface, The Real Constitution (2017)
Trivia
- Participated as a volunteer in UN PKO election monitoring in Cambodia while a student.
- Served as director of the Hiroshima Peacebuilding Capacity-building Center (HPC) for many years (2007–2024).
- Active on X (formerly Twitter) for public commentary.