Naosuke Mukoyama (DPhil, Oxford) is an Associate Professor of Security Studies at the Institute for Future Initiatives, University of Tokyo. Before joining UTokyo, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge. His research agenda broadly centers on the emergence and development of the sovereign state, covering state formation, resource politics, and historical international relations, mainly focusing on East/Southeast Asia and the Middle East. His research has been published in European Journal of International Relations and Democratization, among others. He is currently developing his first book manuscript entitled Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States.