石川 雄介
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Experts Yusuke Ishikawa

Research Fellow /Digital Communications Officer
Profile
Yusuke Ishikawa is Research Fellow and Digital Communications Officer at Asia Pacific Initiative (API) and Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG). His research focuses on European comparative politics, democratic backsliding, and anti-corruption. He also serves as External Contributor for Transparency International’s Anti-Corruption Helpdesk, and as Part-time Lecturer in European Affairs at the Department of Economics and Business Management, Saitama Gakuen University.

Prior to his current roles, he was Research Associate at IOG and API, contributing to its translation project of Critical Review of the Abe Administration into English and Chinese. Previously, he has worked as Research Assistant for API's CPTPP program and interned with its Fukushima Nuclear Accident and Abe Administration projects. His other experience includes serving as a full-time research intern at Transparency International Hungary and as a part-time consultant with Transparency International Defence & Security in the UK.

His publications include NGOs, Advocacy, and Anti-Corruption (Routledge, 2025) and A Dangerous Confluence: The Intertwined Crises of Disinformation and Democracies (Institute of Geoeconomics, 2024). He has been featured in national and international media outlets including Japan Times, NHK, TV Asahi, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Handelsblatt, and Expresso. He received his BA in Political Science from Meiji University, MA in Corruption and Governance (with Distinction) from the University of Sussex, and another MA in Political Science from Central European University. During his BA and MAs, he also acquired teacher’s licenses in social studies in secondary education and a TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language) certificate.

[Concurrent Positions]
Part-time Lecturer, Department of Economics and Business Management, Saitama Gakuen University
External Contributor Consultant, Anti-Corruption Helpdesk, Transparency International Secretariat (TI-S)
Expertise
Central and Eastern European politics / Democratic backsliding / Anti-corruption / Governance / Politics of education
Project in Charge
Publications

Book chapter
“NGOs, Advocacy, and Anti-Corruption”. In R. Bratu and J. Pozsgai-Alvarez. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice. London: Routledge, forthcoming.

 

Reports
A Dangerous Confluence: The Intertwined Crises of Disinformation and Democracies” (co-authored with Marina Fujita Dickson and Sara Kaizuka). Institute of Geoeconomics, November 20, 2024, p.1-82.
Anti-Corruption Awareness Raising: Effective Messages and Best Practices“. U4 Helpdesk Answer 2024:21, p.1-24.
Research Internship Report: Bank Transparency in Hungary,” Transparency International Hungary, 2020, p.1-89.

 

Peer reviewed journal articles
Anti-Corruption NGOs as Think Tanks: The Effect of Transparency International UK on the UK Bribery Act 2010“. Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science 51, 2021, p.4–16.
“G-PACS”: Process of Development and Effects of Political Simulation Games”. PanSIG Journal, 2018, p.75-80.

 

Book reviews
Book Review: Oyamada, E., ‘Corruption and Development – New Challenges in Anti-Corruption in Developing Countries’, Akashi Shoten, 2019, 344p”. Asian and African Area Studies 19 (2), 2020, p. 207-209 [in Japanese].

Lectures and Events

Presentations

  • Yusuke Ishikawa, “Populist Pathways: Corruption and Democratic Backsliding in Central Europe“, IPSA (International Political Science Association) 75th Anniversary Conference , September 11-13, 2024.
  • Marina Dickson, Yusuke Ishikawa, and Sara Kaizuka, “Democracies Degraded by Disinformation: Lessons from Hungary, the US, and the UK”, IAFOR The 15th Asian Conference on the Social Sciences, May 25, 2024.
  • Yusuke Ishikawa, “NGO’s Approaches to Measure the Transparency and Quality of Anti-Corruption Policies and Procedures”, First Annual Meeting of the UNCAC Coalition, November 28, 2020.
  • Yusuke Ishikawa,”Why anti-corruption does not work? Empirical evidence across the world”, CEU Open House 2019 – The roundtable discussion with Department of Political Science, November 22, 2019.

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