Research
PUBLICATIONS
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Hosoi, Tomohiro and Tomoko Takahashi, "African Agency in the Formation of Summit Diplomacy: An Analysis of Diplomatic Documents on TICAD I", Global Studies Quarterly, Volume 6, Issue 2, April 2026, ksag079, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksag079.
Takahashi, Tomoko, Sanae Suzuki and Taku Yukawa. 2025. “Institutionalized Authority and Personal Traits of Executive Heads in International Organizations: A New Database”, International Interactions 51 (5): 879-900, https://doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2025.2527826. (Data released in Harvard Dataverse).
Takahashi, Tomoko. January 2025. “Two Questions of Sovereignty: China and the Third World Countries in the United Nations General Assembly (1971–1990)”, Global Studies Quarterly 5(1), ksaf024, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksaf024 (Data released in Harvad Dataverse) [in English, sole author, open access].
Takahashi, Tomoko. 2024. “International Relations Research and Borderland as Inhabited
Space”. Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, Special Issue 38 (Health, Border and Marginality: Toward Transdisciplinarity) [in English/ sole author].
Takahashi, Tomoko, Taku Yukawa, and Sanae Suzuki 2023. “Analysis of International Organizations with a Personal Biography Approach: Dataset Creation on Individual Attributes of the Executive Heads”. Advanced Social and International Studies [in Japanese (refereed, co-authored)].
Maha Ali, Yusra Abdullahi, Poorvi Bellur, Alessandro Iandolo, Ria Kapoor, Emma Kluge, Ismay Milford, Brooks Marmon, Alanna O'Malley, Raphaël Orange-Leroy, Tomoko Takahashi, Pasuth Thothaveesansuk and Muhammad Suhail Mohamed Yazid. “Making and Breaking Global Order across the Twentieth Century” (Conference at Leiden University in October 2022). H-Diplo Forum 2023-1, Posted on July 6, 2023 at: https://hdiplo.org/to/Forum-2023-1.
Takahashi, Tomoko, Sanae Suzuki, and Taku Yukawa. 2022. “Measuring the Influence of Executive Heads in International Organizations —Illustrative Analysis on the Effects of Democratic Density—”. IDE Discussion Paper No. 850, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), JETRO: 1-39 [in English, co-authored].
Takahashi, Tomoko. 2019. “China’s Interest Seen at the Crossroad of International Institutions -Case Studies on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea-”. International Relations 197, Japan Association for International Relations: 120-135 [in Japanese (refereed, first-tier journal in Japan/ sole author)].
DISSERTATION/ THESES [IN PREPARATION FOR JOURNAL/ BOOK PUBLICATIONS]
Takahashi, Tomoko. 2023. Power Gap-Driven Draft Resolutions: Sponsorship Behavior of China as a Major Power in the United Nations General Assembly [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Tokyo [in English].
Takahashi, Tomoko. 2020. Inconspicuousness in International Institutions: Analyses of the United Nations General Assembly Roll Call Votes [Master’s Thesis with Honors]. University of Chicago [in English].
Takahashi, Tomoko. 2018. China and the Multilateral Environmental Regime: Reflections on Theories of International Organizations and Regimes [Master’s Thesis]. University of Tokyo [in English].
BOOK MANUSCRIPT
Takahashi, Tomoko. Embedded Blueprints for Power: China’s Draft Resolutions at the United Nations General Assembly [in English, sole author]. (Full manuscript completed.)
WORKING PAPERS [IN PREPARATION FOR JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS]
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Takahashi, Tomoko. “When Stigmatized Countries Meet the Alternative Order: Japan’s Scramble to Recalibrate the United Nations through the Asian-African and the NonAligned Movements” [in English, sole author, under review]
Takahashi, Tomoko. “The Game that We Always Played: Global Governance and Its Transactional Basics” [under review, op-ed].
Takahashi, Tomoko and Yusra Abdullahi. “Gains before Labels: How Sanctions against South Africa Provoked World-Making in the Economic Realm for Japan and Africa” [in English, first author].
Takahashi, Tomoko and Daniëlle Flonk, “Exogenous Voices and State Autonomy: China at the Nexus of Domestic and Global Governance of the Internet” [in English, first author].
Tomoko Takahashi, Raphaëlle Khan, Yuan Zhou, and Juan Acevedo-Ossa, “Mapping the Global South: Governance of CO₂ Emission in the Economic-Security Nexus” [in English, first author].
Zhou, Yuan, Tomoko Takahashi, Raphaëlle Khan, Juan Acevedo-Ossa, “Constructing the Global South: China’s Counter-Hegemonic Narrative Strategy Across State Media and Academic Journals” [in English, co-author].
Acevedo-Ossa, Juan, Tomoko Takahashi, Raphaëlle Khan and Yuan Zhou. “Redefining ‘Great Powerness’: The Social Identity Strategies of Rising Powers” [in English, co-author, under review].
Takahashi, Tomoko. “Shackling the Major Powers: International Signaling as the Anchor in Bilateral-Multilateral Trade Nexus” [in English, sole author].
Takahashi, Tomoko. "Reminiscing Exclusion: Asian-African Conference as the Harbinger for a New Model of International Institutions" [in English, sole author].
Takahashi, Tomoko. “Arms Regulation in the Terra Nova: China’s Power Calculations on the ‘Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space’” [in English, sole author].
Takahashi, Tomoko. “Taking Off for Economic Liberalization: China’s Initiatives on Economic Resolutions” [in English, sole author].
Takahashi, Tomoko. “Reticence over Universal Norms: Japanese Engagement with the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction” [in English, sole author].
Takahashi, Tomoko. “Too Complicated to Negotiate from Scratch: How China Leverages ExtraInstitutional Information Shortcuts for Cooperation in the United Nations General Assembly” [in English, sole author].
Hosoi, Tomohiro and Tomoko Takahashi. “Summit Diplomacy with Africa: Reorganizing the Experiences from Japan and China” [in Japanese, co-authored]. Jxiv Preprint: https://doi.org/10.51094/jxiv.987 . (細井 友裕・高橋知子「アフリカのサミット外 交―日本と中国の経験を整理する」)
Vizitiu, Patrick and Tomoko Takahashi. “State-Rebuilding through International Norms: Germany and Japan’s Quest for Sovereignty and Consequences for the Participation in Multilateral Conflict Resolution” [in English, co-authored].
Takahashi, Tomoko. “Whose Agent? UN Bureaucrats and Their Domestic Network”.
Takahashi, Tomoko. “Shifting Gears: Rising China’s Conception of State Autonomy in the United Nations (March 15, 2022)”. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4071563 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4071563[in English, sole author].
Takahashi, Tomoko. “Rising and Leading: China with the G77 at the United Nations General Assembly (October 1, 2021)”. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3944408 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3944408 [in English, sole author].
Takahashi, Tomoko. “Harnessing the Power Gap: Sponsorship Behavior of the Rising BRICS in the United Nations General Assembly (July 27, 2021)”. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4037770 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4037770 [in English, sole author].
BOOK REVIEWS
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Takahashi, Tomoko. 2023. “(Book Review) Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China’s Clean Energy Sector (Joanna I. Lewis, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2023, $45.00, 358 pp. ISBN: 978-0-26-254482-5)”. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific Icad008. https://doi.org/10.1093/irap/lcad008 [in English].
Takahashi, Tomoko. 2022. “(Book Review) Niu, Jun. Translated by Masui, Yasuki. A Study of the Decision Making of China’s Foreign Policy. Chikura Shobo, July 2021.” Monthly Journal of Chinese Affairs 76(10)(No.896, October 2022), Institute for Chinese Affairs: 42-46 [in Japanese].
Takahashi, Tomoko. 2019. “(Book Review) Cheng, Fangting. The Formation of Complementary Relationships among Overlapping Regimes: Negotiations on Climate Change, U.S.- China Relations, and the Paris Agreement-”. Asian Studies 65(2), Japan Association for Asian Studies: 40-44 [in Japanese].