Dai Yamao

Dai Yamao is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, and his main research fields are Middle East politics, Iraqi politics, and comparative politics. He graduated from Kyoto University with a Ph.D. in area studies (Middle East politics). He has received two awards: 5th Japan Association of International Relations, Academic Award (October 20, 2012, for his journal article) and 17th Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Award in International Development Studies (January 21, 2014, for his monograph). He has published three monographs, Measuring the Impact of Conflict: Reorganization of the State and Nation in Iraq through Public Opinion Surveys and Quantitative Text Analysis (Koyo Shobo, 2021), Conflict and State-Building: Politics of Reconstruction in Postwar Iraq (Akashi Shoten, 2013), and Islamist Movements in Contemporary Iraq: From Revolutionary Movement to Government Party (Yuhikaku, 2011). His work has been published in the British Journal of the Middle East Studies, The Developing Economies, World Political Science Review, Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, and Arab Studies Quarterly.