Karl Gustafsson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University and Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. His article ‘Memory politics and ontological security in Sino-Japanese relations’ won the Wang Gungwu prize for best article published in Asian Studies Review in 2014 and his doctoral dissertation received the Stockholm University Association’s award for best dissertation in the Social Sciences in 2011. Karl’s research interests include alternative approaches to security and the role of collective memory in international relations. He has published extensively on Sino-Japanese relations in peer-reviewed journals. Karl has recently published or has forthcoming peer-reviewed articles in Memory Studies, Review of International Studies, Cooperation and Conflict, China: An International Journal, Global Affairs, The Pacific Review and Asian Perspective.