Researchers

Research papers

<Ph.D. Thesis>

• “Governance and Society in the Contemporary Arab Monarchical States: A Case Study of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan” (in Japanese, Kyoto University, 2018)

<Reviewed Journal Papers>

• Watanabe, Shun. “Challenges for National Dialogue in the Post-Arab Spring Era: The Case of Bahrain” Journal of the Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan University, 1, July 2019, pp.56-72.
• Watanabe, Shun. “Political Reflections on Contemporary Monarchies and Its Typologies in the Global Perspective: An Attempt to Analyze Arab Monarchical States and Their Genealogical Legitimacy,” (in Japanese, Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies, 11: 256-303, 2018)
• Watanabe, Shun. “Consensus-Building in Authoritarian Jordan in the midst of the ‘Democratic’ Reform: Analysis on the Legislative Process of the Amendment of the Civil Retirement Law,” (in Japanese, Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies, 33, 1: 71-93, 2017).

<Papers>

• Watanabe, Shun. "Japan’s foreign policy toward Gulf countries: Challenges for the Kishida government" TRENDS Research & Advisory, July 4, 2022.

Publications

• Kuroda, Ayaka, Watanabe, Shun (eds.) Society, Politics and Ideologies in the Modern Arab East: A Trans-Asian Academic Roundtable.
  Osaka: Asia-Japan Research Institute Ritsumeikan University, 2023.
• Watanabe, Shun. Ruling Networks and Resource Distributions in the Contemporary Arab Monarchies: Struggle of an Oil Poor Monarchy, Jordan. Kyoto: Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2022 (in Japanese).

Presentations

<Conference >

• Watanabe, Shun. “Whither Democracy in Arab Lands? Reflections on Political Participation in Monarchial Systems.” International Symposium on "Syrian Refugees in Their Calamities, Survival, and Future Lives: A Japan Roundtable," Asia-Japan Research Institute, Ritsumeikan University and the Ritsumeikan Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Japan, June 12, 2022.
• Watanabe, Shun. “Jordan’s Decentralization After 2015: Central Control under Weak Intermediaries.” 2021 BRISMES Annual Conference “Knowledge, Power and Middle Eastern Studies,” University of Kent, UK (Online), July 6, 2021.
• Watanabe, Shun. “Diversifying Sources and Methods of Data Collection: Case of a Research on Middle East Politics.” Sustainability in Research and Education: Expanding the Field from the Asia Pacific, Online Workshop, Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Japan (Online), March 11, 2021.
• Watanabe, Shun. “Politics of Reform as a New Ruling Formula in Neoliberal Jordan: The Case of Decentralisation.” Western Intervention in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings: Political Containment, Neoliberalism, and Imperial Legacies, Online Workshop, University of Oxford, UK (Online), February 23, 2021.
• Watanabe, Shun. “Transformation of the Ruling Coalition in Contemporary Jordan: Implications from the Process of Decentralization.” International Workshop for Trans-Asian Academic Communication: Understanding Political Quandaries in the Modern Arab East, Online Workshop, Asia-Japan Research Institute, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, JAPAN (Online), January 26, 2021.
• Watanabe, Shun. “Dynamics of Linchpin Monarchical Rule: Jordan in the Neoliberal Era.” PSA Annual International Conference 2019 “(Un)sustainable Politics in a Changing World.” Nottingham Conference Centre, Nottingham, UK, April 17, 2019.
• Watanabe, Shun. “Civil Society in Sectarian Politics: Youth Societies in Bahrain.” International Workshop on Stasis and Change in the Contemporary Gulf Monarchies. Waseda University, Tokyo, JAPAN, December 17, 2017.
• Watanabe, Shun. “The Hashemite Pluralism: Policies of Integration and Control in Jordan.” BRISMES Conference 2017 “Movement and Migration in the Middle East: People and Ideas in Flux,” The University of Edinburgh, UK, July 5-7, 2017.

<Invited Speaker>

• “Centre-Local Relations in Jordan in the Era of Reform” Department of Social and Political Sciences Research Seminar, Nottingham Trent University, UK (Online), April 21, 2021

Activity on Committee etc.

• Japan Association for Middle East Studies

• Japan Association for Comparative Politics

• Japan Association of International Relations

Others

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