Associate Professor Tomohito Baji
Tomohito Baji is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan.
His research stands at the intersection between Intellectual History and International Relations, focusing mainly on the theories and visions of empire and international order in early twentieth‐century Britain and Japan. He is the author of The International Thought of Alfred Zimmern: Classicism, Zionism and the Shadow of Commonwealth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and his research articles have appeared in journals such as Modern Intellectual History, History of European Ideas, and International Affairs. He also examines anticolonial political thought developed in the Pacific Islands region during the late twentieth century. In this context, he wrote the essay “Oceanic Internationalism: Epeli Hau‘ofa and the Archipelagic Vision of the Pacific,” in Antiliberal Internationalism in the Twentieth Century, edited by Matthijs Lok et al. (Routledge, 2025).
Select publications
[In English]
– “Oceanic Internationalism: Epeli Hau‘ofa and the Archipelagic Vision of the Pacific,” in Matthijs Lok et al eds., Antiliberal Internationalism in the Twentieth Century: Beyond Left and Right? (Routledge, 2025).
– “Colonial Policy Studies in Japan: Racial Visions of Nan’yo, or the Early Creation of a Global South,” International Affairs (100th anniversary issue: ‘Race and Imperialism in International Relations: Theory and Practice’), Vol. 98, No. 1 (2022): 165-182.
– The International Thought of Alfred Zimmern: Classicism, Zionism and the Shadow of Commonwealth (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
– “The British Commonwealth as Liberal International Avatar: With the Spines of Burke,” History of European Ideas, Vol. 46, No. 5 (2020): 649-665.
– “Zionist Internationalism? Alfred Zimmern’s Post-Racial Commonwealth,” Modern Intellectual History, Vol. 13, No. 3 (2016): 623-651.
[In Japanese]
– “Colonial Policy Studies in Global International Thought: A Method of Transimperial Ideological Circulation,” Studies on International Relations, No. 38 (2023), pp. 1-23.
– “The Myth of the Commonwealth: A Genealogy of Settler Colonialism, Greater Britain and the Round Table Movement,” in The British World: Dimensions of Imperial Ties, ed. Mahito Takeuchi (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Hyoron Sha, 2019), ch. 7: 199-228.
Select awards
JSPS Prize, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2022