Professor Kawashima Shin is professor of international relations at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. He was previously Associate Professor at Hokkaido University. Professor Kawashima is also an executive director of research at the Nakasone Peace Institute and an associate member of the Science Council of Japan. His main areas of interest are Chinese/Taiwanese diplomatic history and contemporary international relations in East Asia. He holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo and writes extensively in Think China (thinkchina.sg) and The Diplomat (thediplomat.com). He has authored and edited several books and numerous articles, notably Chūgoku kindai gaikō no keisei (2004; awarded the Suntory Academic Prize), Frontier of China (2017), Japan-China Relations in the Modern Era (Routledge, 2017), Emerging countries after Covid-19 (2021), Xi Jinping’s China (2022), and Japan-China Relations, 2001–2022 (2023).
