Shin Kawashima is the professor of the Department of International Relations, in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, at the University of Tokyo. He is Visiting Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) appointed in 2026. His research covers Chinese/Taiwanese diplomatic history and the contemporary international relations in East Asia. His first book, Formation of Chinese Modern Diplomacy (2004), was awarded the Suntory Academic Prize in 2004. He received the Foreign Minister’s Award in 2023. Aside from his academic positions, he is involved in policy think tanks, including Nakasone Peace Institute (NPI) as Executive Director of Research. and JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development as Visiting Fellow. He is Senior Associate Member of ROLES and has been committed to ROLES activities since its establishment in 2020 as a group leader of several research groups on China, Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific.