From Mekong Commons to Mekong Community: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Transboundary Challenges (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780367528775)

Seiichi Igarashi is a professor at Chiba University's Graduate School of Social Sciences. He graduated from Keio University, Faculty of Letters, Japan, in 1994. He earned his master's degree and Ph.D. from Waseda University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Japan. In 2002, he was a research associate at Waseda University's School of Social Sciences; subsequently, he became a post-doctoral research fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in 2005, an assistant professor at Waseda University's Faculty of Social Sciences in 2008, a researcher for the Global Centers of Excellence (COE) program at Kyoto University in 2010, and a lecturer at Chiba University's Faculty of Law and Economics, also in 2010. In 2014, he obtained an associate professorship at Chiba University's Faculty of Law, Politics, and Economics. He specializes in international relations and Asian studies. His recent research focuses on civil society in regionalism, and he is undertaking a study in the Mekong region.