February 2026

Alexander Bukh is a Professor of International Relations at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University. Previously he was an Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Alexander holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a LLM in International Law from Tokyo University. He has published extensively on international relations in Northeast Asia. His publications have appeared in academic journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, Asian Survey, International Relations of the Asia Pacific and the Pacific Review. Alexander is the author of Japan's National Identity and Foreign Policy: Russia as Japan's 'Other’ (Routledge 2008) and These Islands Are Ours: The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia (Stanford Univ. Press 2020). He is also a producer and a co-director of a documentary on territorial disputes-related activism in Japan and Korea titled This Island in Ours (Contented Production 2016).