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Publications
- "Failure
of Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations in the Early Postwar Era:
Attitude of the United States Towards the Negotiations, "
KOKKA GAKKAI ZASSHI, Vol.96 (1983), 1-47, 579-629, pp.877-940.
(Japanese)
- "Local
Government Initiatives to Promote Peace, " PEACE AND
CHANGE, Vol.12 (1987), No.3/4, pp.51-58. (English)
- "Postwar
Nuclear Arms Buildup and Hiroshima-Nagasaki: Searching for
New Perspectives," PSAJ Newsletter, No.3 (Sept., 1983),
pp.8-11. (English)
- "US-Japanese
Military Relations: Towards a Security Community via Asymmetrical
Integration," in Lawrence Ziring, ed., THE NEW EUROPE
AND THE WORLD (Kalamazoo, MI: New Issues Press, 1993), pp.257-94.
(English)
- "Japan,"
in Trevor Findlay, ed., CHALLENGES FOR THE NEW PEACEKEEPERS,
Oxford University Press (SIPRI Research Report no.12), (1995).
(English)
- "Recent
International Initiatives Towards Nuclear Disarmament,"
INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL STUDIES, No.16 (1997), pp.147-55.
(Japanese)
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Takao Takahara is Professor of International
Politics and Peace Research, Faculty of International Studies,
Meijigakuin University, Yokohama, Japan. He was a visiting scholar
at the University of Maryland until March 2001. Currently he is
an Adjunct Fellow for the Program on Global Security and Disarmament.
Takao Takahara began teaching at Meijigakuin University in 1985.
Prior to that time, he was Assistant Researcher at University
of Tokyo (1979-82), and taught International Politics at Kanagawa
University (1983-1985) and at Rikkyo University (1984). He also
was a Visiting Fellow/Visiting Scholar at the Peace Studies Program,
Cornell University (1991-1993). Subjects of his previous works
include the postwar disarmament negotiations, the Nuclear-Free
Zone movements in Japan, formation of the Security Treaty between
United States, Australia, and New Zealand, the reversion of the
Ryukyu Islands from the US to Japan in 1972, and characteristics
of the postwar United States-Japanese military relationship.
His current interest focuses on the movement to eliminate nuclear
weapons in the new century. He is especially interested in the
demystification of the "nuclear umbrella" with a view
to establishing a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Northeast Asia.
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