Kumiko Haba


Kumiko Haba is a Japanese Professor of International Politics at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo. Her research is International Relations, International Politics, International Sociology, Power Shift and National Anxiety, Immigrants-Refugee questions, Nationalism and Xenophobia in the European Union. She wrote a book, Division and Integration in Europe, Nationalism and Border in the Enlarged EU—Inclusion or Exclusion, Chuokoronshinsya, 2016.
She is the Vice President of International Studies Association in the USA which is more than 7,000 members, the President of EUSA Asia Pacific Tokyo Conference in 2017, President of Japanese Association for the Improvement of Conditions of Women Scientists. She is Vice Chair of Council on East Asian Community, member of Science Council of Japan, Director of the Institute for Global International Relations, European Institute at Hosei University, and Governing Council member of International Studies Association. She is a member of Science Council of Japan, the Directorate member of JPSA, JAIR, EUSAJ, and was the General Secretary of JAREES.
She graduated from Tsuda College, was Professor at Hosei University, and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, European University Institute, Sorbonne University, University of London, and Hungarian Academy of Science, Institute of History. She was a lecturer at University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Hitotsubashi University, Waseda University, and Keio University.
She was influenced by Joseph Nye, Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Mann, and Anthony Giddens.
Her analysis is unique enough, analyzing from periphery and borders, investigating Power Shift from Western Modernization to East Asian Collaboration, and Democracy's instability. She is strongly interesting to make Peace and Reconciliation from Conflicts, and making think-tank networks in instable East Asia.

She published 57 books including co-author and co-writer and more than 160 articles, especially on Asian regionalism, Immigrants and Refugee questions, the European Union-NATO, and Visegrad countries, democratization, nationalism and xenophobia. University of Sorbonne, European University Institute, and Harvard University.
She got a Jean Monnet Chair from the European Union in 2005. Her recent research is Democracy's instability and Populism, like BREXIT and Trump Presidential election, Power Shift, National and trans-regional cooperation and the role of the United States of America.

Books

57 books, including co-ed and co-writer