Kei Hakata

Dr. Kei Hakata is a full-time professor at Seikei University in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in international politics and security affairs. He is also an associate fellow at the Institute of Advanced International Studies, the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Uzbekistan, and a member of the Research Chair on the Indo-Pacific studies at Laval University in Canada. He holds a doctorate in public law from the University of Nancy II in France. Before joining Seikei University in 2005, he worked for Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Professor Hakata was a visiting scholar at Ateneo de Manila University in The Philippines, Oxford University in the United Kingdom, the Institute of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Hungary, and National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan/R.O.C. His publications include Indo-Pacific Strategies: Navigating Geopolitics at the Dawn of a New Age (co-edited with Brendon J. Cannon, Routledge, 2021).