Educated at the University of Tokyo, University of South Carolina and New York University, Yasuyuki Matsunaga conducted his doctoral research in Iran from 1997 until 2004 in Iran and defended his dissertation “Struggles for democratic consolidation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1979-2004” in August 2006. Currently, he teaches comparative and international politics at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in Japan.

"Mohsen Kadivar, an Advocate of Postrevivalist Islam in Iran,” BJMES 34, 3 (2007), 319-329; “The Secularization of a Faqih-headed Revolutionary Islamic State of Iran: Its Mechanisms, Processes, and Prospects,” CSSAAME 29, 3 (2009), 468-482; “Islamic Dissent in Iran’s full-fledged Islamic Revolutionary State,” in Between Dissent and Power: The Transformation of Islamic politics in the Middle East and Asia, ed. Khoo Boo Teik, Vedi R. Hadiz, and Yoshihiro Nakanishi (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014), 66-88. 

Public Contention and Political Change in Iran and Greater Middle East; Trajectories of Desecularization and Resecularization in Iran and the Middle East

Professor, Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies