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Yasuyuki Matsunaga

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Professor of Political Science

3-11-1 Asahi-Cho, Fuchu-shi

Tokyo, 183-8534

Japan

  • Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

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Scholarly Papers (6)

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1.

L’État rentier est-il réfractaire à la démocratie? (Is the Rentier State Resistant to Democracy?)

Critique internationale, 8: 46-58, 2000
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 30 May 2015
Yasuyuki Matsunaga
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
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rentier state, distributive state, democratization, oil-exporting Middle Eastern states

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Islamic Dissent in Iran's Full-Fledged Islamic Revolutionary State

A chapter in Between Dissent and Power: The Transformation of Islamic Politics in the Middle East and Asia, edited by Khoo Boo Teik, Vedi R. Hadiz and Yoshihiro Nakanishi (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 30 May 2015 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2025
Yasuyuki Matsunaga
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
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Iran, Islamic Dissent, Contentious Politics, Elections

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The Secularization of a Faqih-Headed Revolutionary Islamic State of Iran: Its Mechanisms, Processes, and Prospects

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Volume 29, Number 3: 468-482, 2009
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 26 May 2015 Last Revised: 27 May 2015
Yasuyuki Matsunaga
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
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Iran, Islamic state, secularization

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The Myth of Vertical Integration in Regional Conflict: Iran and the "Axis of Resistance"

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 24 Feb 2025 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2025
Yasuyuki Matsunaga
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
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Political Parties (in the Islamic Republic of Iran)

"Political Parties," in Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic, ed. Mehran Kamrava and Manochehr Dorraj (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008), 390-394
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 30 May 2015
Yasuyuki Matsunaga
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
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Islamic Republic of Iran, Political Parties Activities Law, Participation Front Party

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Review Essay: Will Re-Problematizing Iran's Islamic State à la 'Religious Secularity' Require Another Islamic State?

Journal of Religious and Political Practice, 3:1-2 (2017), 84-87
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 01 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2025
Yasuyuki Matsunaga
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
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Islamic state, Iran, secularity