TERADA Takashi is a professor of international relations at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He received his Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 1999. Before assuming his current position in April 2012, he served as an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore (1999–2006) and as an associate and full professor at Waseda University in Tokyo (2006–2011). His overseas visiting appointments include Visiting Fellow at the University of Warwick, U.K. (2011–12), Japan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. (2012), and Operating Adviser for the U.S.–Japan Institute (USJI) (2011–2019).　His areas of specialization include international political economy, particularly the politics of trade and investment, along with theoretical and empirical studies of Asian regionalism and regional integration, and the linkage between Japanese domestic politics and foreign policy. His major books in Japanese include East Asia and Asia-Pacific: Institutional and Normative Competitions in Regional Integration (University of Tokyo Press, 2013) and the edited volume Geoeconomics in the Indo-Pacific and U.S.–China Hegemonic Competition (Sairyu-sha, 2023). He has served on the editorial boards of international journals, including the Korean Journal of International Relations.