Manabu SENGOKU

• Academic and related experience
  • Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Centre, Hokkaido University, 2014 (to present, Director: February 2017-March 2020).
  • Professor, Department of Law, Seinan Gakuin University, 2003-2014.
  • Visiting Professor, Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido University, 2011-2012 and 2005-2006.
  • Visiting Professor, Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University, 2009-2011.
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Area Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 2006.
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Area Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 2005.
  • Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies(current name is Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies), University of Birmingham, 2002-2003.
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido University, 2001-2002.
  • Associate Professor, Department of Law, Seinan Gakuin University, 1997-2003.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Seinan Gakuin University, 1996-1997.
  • Research Fellow, Slavic Research Centre, Hokkaido University, 1995-1996.
  
  
• Main research topics
  • Comparative Politics and Political Economy.
  • Contemporary Politics in Central and East European (CEE) countries.
  • Welfare system reconfigurations in CEE countries.
  • Economic policies of CEE countries.
  • Cross-border cooperation and the "Euroregion" in CEE countries.
  
  
• Articles and books in English
  • "2015 parliamentary election in Poland: does the migrant/refugee issue matter?" Journal of the Graduate School of Letters [Hokkaido University], vol 13, pp.35-47, 2018.
    
  • (Edited book) The great dispersion: the many fates of Post-Communist society (Savic Eurasia Papers No.11). Sapporo: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center[Hokkaido University], 2018.
    
  • (Book review)”Gyula Horvath, Spaces and Places in Central and Eastern Europe(Abington: Routledge, 2015)” Acta Slavica Iaponica, vol. 38, pp.159-160, 2017.
    
  • "Welfare state institutions and welfare politics in Central and Eastern Europe: the political background to institutional diversity" In Tadayuki Hayashi and Atsushi Ogushi (eds.), Post-Communist Transformations:The Countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia in Comparative Perspective (Slavic Eurasian Studies, No.21), Sapporo: Slavic Research Centre [Hokkaido University], 2009.
    (The review of this book can be found in New Zealand Slavonic Journal, vol.43(2009), pp.136-139, and in Europe-Asia Studies, Vol.64(2012), pp.174-177)
    (This paper is cited in these articles)
    
  • "Emerging Eastern European welfare states: a variant of the 'European' welfare model?" In Shinichiro Tabata and Akihiro Iwashita (eds.), Slavic Eurasia's integration into the world economy and community (21st century COE program, Slavic Eurasian Studies, No. 2). Sapporo: Slavic Research Centre[Hokkaido University], 2004.
    (This paper is cited in these articles)
    
  • "Local Government and the State: change and continuity of the local system in Poland," in O. Ieda (ed.), The emerging local governments in Eastern Europe and Russia: historical and post-Communist developments. Hiroshima: Keisui-sha, 2000.
    (The review of this book can be found in Osteuropa-Recht, no.1-2, vol.47(2001), pp.114-115)
    (This paper is cited in these articles)
    
  
  
• Presentations at the international conference
  • "Populist Governments and Economy: Differences between PiS and FIDESZ,” 2019 SRC Summer International Symposium: Global Crisis of Democracy? The Rise and Evolution of Authoritarianism and Populism (Session 6: Populism and the Economy, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, 5 July 2019)(New).
    
  • "'Re-transformation' of East European welfare states?: changing of the family policy after the economic crisis,” The 16th ESPANET Conference 2018 (Session S4: What can we learn from the "East"? Comparative analysis of former communist welfare states, Hotel Radisson Blue Sas Lietuva, Vilnius, Lithuania, 31 August 2018).
    
  • "Coping with the declining birthrate: comparing Eastern Europe with Japan” 2016 SRC Winter International Symposium: 25 years after: post-Communism’s vibrant diversity (Session 4: Family and the State in the post-Communist Societies, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, 9 December 2016).
    
  • ”European migrant/refugee crisis and general election in Poland: does the migrant/refugee issue matter?” Pre-Symposium session: Middle-Eastern Migration/Refugees and European Integration from Eurasian viewpoints (Session 2: Middle East refugees and European integration, Conference Hall, Hokkaido University, 9 December 2015).
    
  • "Welfare state institutions and welfare politics in Central and Eastern Europe: political background of institutional diversity," International workshop: Post-communist transformations: the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia in comparative perspective (Centennial Hall, Hokkaido University, 5 December 2008).
    
  • "Emerging Eastern European Welfare State: race-to-the-bottom?" 2003 SRC Summer International Symposium: Slavic Eurasia's Integration into the World Economy and Community (Session 2: Enlargement of European Union toward the East, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 17 July 2003).
    

• Selected Recent Books in Japanese
  • Party politics and political change in Central Eastern Europe(monograph)(2021)
  • Social welfare in post-Communist countries(edited book)(2019)
  • Towards a post-Neoliberal era?: Search for a new political and economic order (edited book)(2017)
  • Neoliberalism as reality: cases of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Latin America (co-edited with Prof. Murakami)(2013)
  • Politics and economy in post-socialist countries (co-edited with Prof. Hayashi)(2011)
  • Searching for new frontiers in the study of regime transformation (co-edited with Prof. Hayashi)(2010)
    
  
  
• Teaching (In 2021)
  • Basics and methodology of Slavic Eurasian studies(For graduate students, spring semester)
  • Comparative Politics and Eastern Europe(For graduate students, autumn semester)