Ohtomo Takafumi

Affiliation
Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
Official title
Associate Professor
Research fields
International relations
Research keywords
International Relations Theory
International Security
Unipolarity
Research projects
Alliance and Balance of Power1998-04 -- (current)/
U.S.Grand Strategy and Overseas Military Presence2000-04 -- (current)/
Unipolar Politics2003-04 -- (current)/
Overseas Military Presence: A Comparative Study2007 -- 2009Takafumi OhtomoJapan Society of for the Promotion of Science/Junior Scholar Research (B)3,540,000Yen
Career history
2003-10 -- 2004-03University of Tsukuba, Institute of Social Sciences, Instructor
2004-04 -- 2007-03University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Instructor
2007-04 -- 2008-03University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor
2008-04 -- 2010-12University of Tsukuba, Department of Global Activities, Assistant Professor
2011-01 -- 2011-09University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Doctoral Program in International and Advanced Japanese Studies, Assistant Professor
2011-10 -- 2014-03University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor
2014-04 -- (current)University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
Academic background
1990-08 -- 1994-08Valparaiso University , Department of Political Science
1994-10 -- 1996-08University of Chicago , Committee on International Relations (Specialization: International Political Economy)
1998-04 -- 2003-09University of Tsukuba , Graduate School of International Political Economy , International Political Economy
Degree
1996-08Master of Arts (International Relations)University of Chicago
2000-03Master of Arts (International Political Economy)University of Tsukuba
2013-07Ph.D. (International Political Economy)University of Tsukuba
Academic societies
2000 -- (current)Japan Association of International Relations
1995 -- (current)American Political Science Association
2005 -- (current)International Studies Association
2006 -- (current)Japanese Political Science Association
2004 -- 2005Association for Asian Studies
Articles
  • 日本の市民社会構造と政治参加――自治会、社会団体、NPOの全体像とその政治関与
    山本 英弘; 辻中　豊; 崔宰栄; 三輪博樹; 大友貴史
    Leviathan, 2007-10
  • 書評「交渉による米軍海外基地展開の成功と失敗」川名晋史著『基地の政治学――戦後米国の海外基地拡大政策の起源』白桃書房、2012年
    大友 貴史
    レヴァイアサン/(55)/pp.158-161, 2014-10
  • "U.S. Military Bases and Force Realignments in Japan and Germany."
    大友 貴史
    Journal of International and Advanced Japanese Studies (University of Tsukuba)/(6)/pp.17-34, 2014-01
  • "The Corporatist System and Social Organizations in China."
    Kazuko Kojima; Jae-Young Choe; Takafumi Ohtomo; Yutaka Tsuji...
    Management and Organization Review/8(3)/p.609-628, 2012-11
  • "Understanding U.S. Overseas Military Presence after World War II."
    Takafumi Ohtomo
    Journal of International and Advanced Japanese Studies (University of Tsukuba)/4/pp.17-29, 2012-03
  • "Predominance of U.S. Global Military Presence: Personnel, SOFAs, and the Command Structure."
    Takafumi Ohtomo
    Area Studies Tsukuba (University of Tsukuba)/31/p.93-112, 2010-03
  • "Understanding U.S. Overseas Military Presence: How It Starts, Ends, and Endures."
    Takafumi Ohtomo
    Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, USA, February 17-20, 2010, 2010-02
  • "Book Review, Kent E. Calder, Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007)."
    Takafumi Ohtomo
    International Relations of the Asia-Pacific: A Journal of the Japan Association of International Relations/9(1)/p.197-200, 2009-01
  • "Afurika Kaigin to Tsukuba Daigaku ga Renkei Oboegaki wo Teiketsu [African Development Bank and the University of Tsukuba to sign an MOU]."
    橘田正造; 大友貴史; 柏木健一
    Kokusai Kaihatsu Jyanaru [International Development Journal]/620/p.58-59, 2008-07
  • "Exploring the Realities of Japanese Civil Society and Politics through Comparison: Comparing Japan, South Korea, US, Germany, China, Turkey, Russia, the Philippines, Brazil and Bangladesh in the JIGS Surveys."
    Yutaka Tsujinaka; Jae-Young Choe; Takafumi Ohtomo
    Paper presented at International Studies Association 49th Annual Convention at Hilton San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 26-29, 2008 (Panel TB51: Civil Society Organizations and the State in Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspective), 2008-03
  • "Nihon no shimin shakai kouzou to seiji sanka--Jichikai, shakai dan tai , NPO no zentaizou to sono seiji kanyo [The structure of civil Society in Japan and Political Participation: The overall picture of neighborhood associations, social associations, and nonprofit organizations and their political engagement]."
    辻中 豊; 崔 宰栄; 山本 英弘; 三輪博樹; 大友貴史
    Leviathan: The Japanese Journal of Political Science/(41)/pp.7-44, 2007-10
    CiNii
  • ”Exploring the Realities of Japanese Civil Society and Politics through Comparison.”
    Yutaka Tsujinaka; Jae-Young Choe; Takafumi Ohtomo
    ASIEN, The German Journal of Contemporary Asia/105/p.16-32, 2007-10
  • "Explaining the Differences of Subjective Influence in Seven Countries: Comparing Japan, South Korea, Germany, China, Turkey, Russia, and the Philippines in the JIGS First Round Surveys."
    Yutaka Tsujinaka; Jae-Young Choe; Takafumi Ohtomo; Hiroki Miwa
    Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies at Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, USA March 22-25, 2007 (Panel 212, East Asian Civil Society Organizations in Com-parative Perspective), 2007-03
  • "U.S. Military Bases and Force Realignments in Japan."
    Takafumi Ohtomo
    Paper presented at the conference, "Managing the Medusa Project: U.S.-Japan Alliance Relations in Comparison with US-UK and US-Germany Ties," Hokkaido University, August 29-30, 2006., 2006-08
  • "Interest Groups, Civil Society Groups and Policy-Making in Asia."
    Robert Pekkanen; Yutaka Tsujinaka; 大友 貴史
    Paper presented at the 20th International Political Science Association World Congress, Fukuoka, Japan, July 9-13, 2006 (Panel SS01.584: Interest Groups, Civil Society Groups and Policy-Making in Asia), 2006-07
  • "Which Civil Society Organizations in Which Countries are Enjoying Policy-Making Processes and Why: Comparing 7 Countries (Japan, South Korea, Germany, China, Turkey, Russia, and the Philippines) in JIGS Survey."
    Yutaka Tsujinaka; Jae-Young Choe; Takafumi Ohtomo; Hiroki...
    Paper presented at the 20th International Political Science Association World Congress, Fukuoka, Japan, July 9-13, 2006, 2006-07
  • "Civil Society Groups and Policy-Making in Contemporary Japan."
    Yutaka Tsujinaka; Robert J. Pekkanen; Takafumi Ohtomo
    Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, IL, USA, 2005-03
  • "Bandwagoning to Dampen Suspicion: NATO and the U.S.-Japan Alliance after the Cold War"
    Takafumi Ohtomo
    International Relations of the Asia-Pacific: A Journal of the Japan Association of International Relations/3(1)/p.29-55, 2003-02
  • "Reisengo no Doumei to Beigun Kaigaikichi Tenkai [U.S. overseas military bases and alliances after the Cold War],"
    大友貴史
    Kokusai Seijikeizaigaku Kenkyu [International Political Economy] (University of Tsukuba)/10/p.63-71, 2002-10
  • "Relative Gains versus Bargaining: Explaining Obstacles to Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, 1989-1996."
    Takafumi Ohtomo
    International Political Economy (University of Tsukuba)/7/p.43-64, 2001-03
  • "Political Regimes and Local Government: The Case of South Korea," (translated from English to Japanese with Seong-Bin Pak)
    趙 昌鉱; 大友貴史; 朴盛彬
    Leviathan: The Japanese Journal of Political Science/23/p.151-164, 1998-10
Conference, etc.
  • Alliance Dilemma after the Cold War: Comparing the U.S.-Japan Alliance and the U.S.-Korea Alliance
    Ohtomo Takafumi
    Annual Meeting of the Korean Political Science Association/2021-12-04--2021-12-04
  • "U.S. Grand Strategy after the Cold War"
    大友 貴史
    Japan Association for International Security Annual Conference 2020/2020-12-05
  • "Unipolarity and International Politics."
    大友 貴史
    Komaba International Politics Workshop/2015-06-12--2015-06-12
  • Roundtable Discussion of the 2014 Lower House Election
    Anand Rao; Ohtomo Takafumi; Robert Pekkanen
    Japan Political Studies Group/2015-03-28--2015-03-28
  • "Association Politics in Times of Political Change in Japan: Evaluating Successive Administrations by Major Association Leaders."
    辻中豊; Yoshiaki Kubo; Ohtomo Takafumi
    Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, IL, USA, March 26-28/2015-03-26--2015-03-29
  • American Unipolarity?
    Ohtomo Takafumi
    The 1st National Taiwan University and University of Tsukuba Joint Faculty Conference/2014-02-22--2014-02-22
Teaching
2023-04 -- 2023-08Research Program Development 11University of Tsukuba.
2023-10 -- 2023-12International Relations 3AUniversity of Tsukuba.
2023-10 -- 2023-12International Relations and Cooperation 3AUniversity of Tsukuba.
2023-04 -- 2023-08Research Program Development 9University of Tsukuba.
2023-04 -- 2023-08Project Seminar 2University of Tsukuba.
2023-10 -- 2024-02Project Seminar 2University of Tsukuba.
2023-04 -- 2023-07International Relations Theory AUniversity of Tsukuba.
2023-04 -- 2023-08Internship IIUniversity of Tsukuba.
2023-10 -- 2024-02Internship IIUniversity of Tsukuba.
2023-10 -- 2024-02Research Program Development 4University of Tsukuba.
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Other educational activities
2023-03 -- 2023-03Guest Speaker, "Alliance Dilemma in the U.S.-Japan Alliance"Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia), "Global Public Policy," Undergraduate Program in Public Policy and Management
Talks
  • How Can Japan and Europe Manage US Alliance Dilemmas?
    Ellis Krauss（UCSD）; Christopher Hughes（U of Warwick）; Hartw...
    How Can Japan and Europe Manage US Alliance Dilemmas?/2006-08-31--2006-08-31
University Management
2021-10 -- 2022-09「学問への誘い」制作実施委員会委員
2021-04 -- 2023-03人文社会系研究推進室室員
2019-09 -- 2021-03北米地域アドバイザリーボード構成員
2016-04 -- 2017-03つくばグローバルサイエンスウィーク（TGSW）2016企画運営委員会
2016-01 -- 2017-03準硬式野球部顧問
2015-04 -- 2016-03つくばグローバルサイエンスウィーク（TGSW）2015企画運営委員会
2015-04 -- 2016-03世界展開力強化事業（ロシア）
2013-04 -- 2016-03Model UN TsukubaSupervisor
2012-04 -- 2017-03Program in Economic and Public Policy Management運営委員
2011-10 -- 2016-10サウジアラビア王国エファット大学　連絡調整責任者
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Other activities
2015-04 -- 2021-08US-Japan Research Institute, Operating Advisor
2014-11 -- 2014-11SCUSA (Student Conference on US Affairs) 2014 at the United States Military Academy (West Point, NY), "Fukushima Future Group," Co-chair

(Last updated: 2023-05-13)