Kentaro Sakuwa is an associate professor at the Department of International Politics, Aoyama Gakuin University, located in Shibuya City, Tokyo, Japan. He holds a B.A. from Kyoto University, a B.A. from the State University of New York, Oswego, an M.A. from Arizona State University, and a Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington.  His research focuses on the dynamics of international conflict and cooperation, especially from the regional, spatial, and network perspectives. I am a co-author of Analyzing Strategic Rivalries in World Politics: Types of Rivalry, Regional Variation, and Escalation/De-escalation (2021, Springer).