Research keywords (8)：
Comparative Politics
, Middle East Politics
, Political Regime
, Authoritarian Regime
, Welfare Policy
, Egypt
, Jordan
, Tunisia
Research theme for competitive and other funds (7)：
2022 - 2024 Analyzing Effects of China's Foreign Aid on Social Protection in the Middle East and North Africa: A Case Study of Egypt
2019 - 2022 Social Protection after the "Arab Spring": Comparative Analysis of Egypt, Tunisia and Jordan
2017 - 2019 Welfare Retrenchment and the Outsourcing Strategies of Political Leaders in Egypt
2016 - 2017 Welfare Retrenchment and the Strategies of Political Leaders in the MENA Region
2013 - 2014 Social Protection and the Survival Strategies of Political Leaders under Authoritarian Rule: Food Subsidies and the Social Fund for Development (SFD) in the Mubarak Era
2013 - 2014 Social Protection and the Survival Strategies of Political Leaders under Authoritarian Rule: Public Employment in the Mubarak Era
2012 - 2013 Social Welfare Programmes under Authoritarian Rule: Comparative Analysis of the Jordanian and Egyptian Food Subsidy Programmes
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Papers (9)：
Yusuke Kawamura. Public Sector Employment as a Social Welfare Policy: The “Social Contract” and Failed Job Creation for Youth in Egypt. Contemporary Review of the Middle East. 2022. 9. 1. 31-50
Yusuke Kawamura. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Social Protection in Egypt. Journal of International Cooperation Studies. 2022. 29. 2. 119-131
Yusuke Kawamura. Pension Reform in an Authoritarian State: A Case Study of Egypt. Public Administration Issues. 2021. 2021. 5. 89-106
Yusuke Kawamura. State and Non-State Actors in the Authoritarian Welfare Regime: The Case of Egypt. Journal of International Cooperation Studies. 2019. 27. 1. 47-72
Yusuke Kawamura. Social Welfare under Authoritarian Rule: Change and Path Dependence in the Social Welfare System in Mubarak's Egypt. 2016
Yusuke Kawamura. Book Review: Takuro Kikkawa, Politics, Military Affairss and Social Movements in Jordan (Koyo Shobo, 2020). The Book Review Press. 2021. 3501. 4
Yusuke Kawamura. Book Review: M. Kisaichi, S. Hamanaka and T. Yokota eds., Handbook on Middle East and Islamic Studies (Akashi Shoten, 2017). Journal of Islamic Area Studies. 2018. 10. 137
Yusuke Kawamura. Book Review: Clement Moore Henry and Robert Springborg, Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East, 2nd edition. New Middle Eastern Studies. 2014
Yusuke Kawamura. Social Protection and Structural Adjustment Programmes in the Middle East and North Africa: The Case of Jordanian Food Subsidies. Bulletin for the Council for British Research in the Levant. 2013. 8. 1. 70-72
Books (4)：
Transformation of Egypt's Authoritarian Welfare Regime: From the Arab Socialist Model to the Neoliberal Model?
Durham University 2020
The Politics of National Reintegration: Between Welfare Statism and Liberal Nationalism
Nakanishiya 2017 ISBN:9784779511905
Redistributive Politics in the Arab Authoritarian Countries: Change and Path Dependence in the Egyptian Welfare Regime
Minerva 2017 ISBN:9784623080687
New Social Risks and Reconstruction of the Public Spheres: Comparative Analysis of Japan, South Korea, Canada and Egypt
Kyoto University, Global Center of Excellence for Reconstruction of the Intimate and Public Spheres in 21st Century Asia 2010
Lectures and oral presentations (14)：
Theoretical Implications of Social Inclusion Programmes under Authoritarian Rule: Analysing Social Investment in Contemporary Egypt
(10th Anniversary Conference of the MENA Social Policy Network 2023)
Effects of Bilateral Aid from China on Social Development in the Middle East and North Africa: A Case Study of Egypt
(Annual Conference of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 2023)
Social Protection and the COVID-19 Crisis
(Annual Conference of the Japan Association for Comparative Politics 2021)
Transformation of the Egyptian Welfare Regime: From the Arab Socialist Model to the Neoliberal Model?
(Research Lecture 2019)
Transformation of the Authoritarian Welfare Regime in Egypt: From the Arab Socialist Model to the Neoliberal Model?
(4th Conference of the MENA Social Policy Network 2019)
2011 - 2016 University of Durham School of Government and International Affairs PhD Programme, Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
2010 - 2011 University of Durham School of Government and International Affairs Master Programme, Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
2007 - 2009 Kyoto University Graduate School of Law Master Programme in Political Science
2002 - 2007 Kyoto University Faculty of Law
Professional career (3)：
PhD in Political Science (University of Durham)
MA in International Relations (Middle East) (University of Durham)
MA in Political Science (Kyoto University)
Work history (7)：
2023/10 - 現在 Kobe University Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies Associate Professor
2023/03 - 2023/09 University of Bath Department of Social & Policy Sciences Visiting Research Fellow
2019/04 - 2023/09 Kobe University Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS) Assistant Professor
2018/10 - 2019/03 Kobe University Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS) Research Associate
2017/04 - 2018/09 Ritsumaikan University Kinugasa Research Organization Postdoctoral Fellow
2017/04 - 2018/09 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow
2016/04 - 2017/03 Kyoto University Graduate School of Law Research Associate
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Awards (1)：
2022/07 - Kobe University Maenosono Best Research Awards
Association Membership(s) (5)：
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
, Japan Association for Comparative Politics
, Japan Association for Middle East Studies
, Japan Association for Social Policy Studies
, Japan Association of International Relations
