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Comment: Edmund Burke’s Constitutional Thought (by Kazunori Takahashi)

Open Research Seminar, Institute of Social Sciences, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, Mar, 2025.
Edmund Burke
Takahashi’s Edmund Burke’s Constitutional Thought is a major contribution to both Burke scholarship and the history of political thought. By reconstructing constitutional discourse through Burke’s exchanges with Paine, Price, and Sieyès, the book offers an important alternative to Locke-centered narratives of modern political thought while convincingly explaining both the continuity of Burke’s political thought and his contrasting responses to the American and French Revolutions. Two issues…
March 12, 2025

Martin Wight on Historical Narrative: Power Politics and the Review of F. H. Hinsley Power and the Pursuit of Peace

Japan Association of Global Governance, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan, May, 2024.
Discourse of Interstate Relations
Martin Wight, a leading figure of the English School, was both a historian and a theorist. While his International Theory (1991) has been widely studied, his historical scholarship remains underexplored. One reason is that debates between the English School and American IR scholarship have tended to frame Wight in terms of history versus theory rather than examining the distinctive features of his historiography. This paper explores Wight’s historical narrative through Power Politics (1978)…
May 11, 2024

Martin Wight on the Dominant State: or, Its Historical Narrative

The Research Group on the English School of International Relations in Japan, Tokyo, Japan, Feb, 2024.
Discourse of Interstate Relations
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February 12, 2024

Rhetoric in the Age of British Cicero: Two Parliamentary Anthologies in Britain in the Early Nineteenth Century

The Japanese Political Science Association, Tokyo, Japan, Sep, 2023
Reception of Rhetoric
How was classical rhetoric, developed in ancient Greece, received and employed in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain? This paper examines the emergence of the term “British Cicero” and the first anthologies of British parliamentary oratory, notably The British Cicero (1808) by Thomas Browne and Eloquence of the British Senate (1807) by William Hazlitt. While Browne argued, drawing on Cicero, that Britain’s free constitution provided the ideal conditions for eloquence…
September 12, 2023
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Designing an Inquiry-Based Bridge Program through Board Games: Making Social Inequality Visible and Tangible

Japan Association for College and University Education, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan, Jun, 2026.
Higher Education Studies
This presentation reports on a university–high school outreach program that used the board game Unequal Monopoly to help high school students explore social inequality. After examining the limitations of problem-solving-oriented inquiry learning in Japanese secondary education, it introduces the game’s design, implementation, and learning outcomes. Unlike conventional PBL, the game encourages students to question how inequality is structurally produced and reproduced rather than simply…
June 7, 2026

Introduction to R Studio

Workshop on Quantitative Text Analysis with R, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, Nov, 2025.
TUTORIAL
R
QUARTO
Quantitative Text Analysis
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November 2, 2025

Effort or Luck?: Thinking through Michael Sandel’s The Tyranny of Merit

Kanazawa University Extension Course, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, Aug, 2024.
Social Problems
Extension Course
This course explores the question of whether meritocracy is truly just through Michael Sandel’s The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?. Meritocracy and performance-based systems often appear fair because they reward ability and effort. However, opportunities to develop one’s abilities are themselves unequally distributed. For example, academic achievement is often influenced by unequal access to educational resources, such as private tutoring. Drawing on both classical…
August 4, 2024
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