Akihiro Iwashita focuses on border studies and Russian foreign policy towards China and Japan. His published work includes A 4,000 Kilometer Journey Along the Sino-Russian Border (SRC, 2004), Japan’s Border Issues: Pitfalls and Perspectives (Routledge, 2016), and Geo-politics in Northeast Asia (Routledge, 2023). Iwashita spent 2007–2008 as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Akihiro Iwashita
Guest Speaker
Professor, Department of Slavic-Eurasian Studies, Hokkaido University
