IIJIMA Yumi

Yumi IIJIMA is a Research Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) and a Concurrent Lecturer at Chuo University in Japan. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Chuo University. Additionally, she was a doctoral candidate at the Department of Political Science at Tsinghua University in China. Her areas of expertise encompass China’s foreign policy, climate diplomacy, and environmental governance. Her works include “China's Climate Change Diplomacy: Changing Identity in International Relations and Transition in Pursuit of National Interests” (Doctoral Dissertation, 2022), “Environmental Governance in China: An Examination of Environmental Authoritarianism and its Campaign-Style Enforcement” (The Chuo Law Review, 2022), and “The Direction of US-China Climate Cooperation in the Era of ‘Global Boiling’” (JIIA Strategic Comments, 2023). 

Current Research Projects

1. Current security risks in the Asia-Oceania region
Ⅲ　China and maritime interests/order
3. Influence of domestic factors in major countries surrounding Japan on international order transition
Ⅱ　China