Professor, Dean of Center for Relational Studies on Global Crises, Chiba University Project Leader, Relational Studies on Global Crisis (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas) Keiko SAKAI joined the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) in Tokyo in 1982 as a researcher on Iraq, after graduated from University of Tokyo. From 1986 until 1989 she served as a research attaché in the Embassy of Japan in Iraq, and served as the overseas researcher at the American University in Cairo 1995-87. Since mid-2005, Sakai took on the position of Professor at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, teaching modern history and conflict analysis in the Middle East until she moved to Chiba University in October 2012. She has published various academic works on contemporary Iraq and the Middle East, such as Iraq and the US (2002, awarded with Asia Pacific Research Award: Grand Prize), Structure of Ruling System of the Regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, (2003, awarded with Daido Seimei Area Studies Award: Prize for encouragement in 2009)(all in Japanese); “Tribalism as a Tool of State Control in Iraq”, in Faleh A.Jabar and Hosham Dawood ed., Tribes and Power: nationalism and ethnicity in the Middle East, Saqi (2003), Social Protests and Nation-Building in the Middle East and Central Asia, Institute of Development Economies (2003) (in English).

Political Science

Arab Studies

Conflict Resolution

Identity/Representation

Middle East/Near East Studies

Arab States

Iraq

Contemporary Iraq Social And Political Identities

Arabic (intermediate)

English (fluent)