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Yasunobu Okabe
Section
Graduate School of Law
Job title
Professor
Degree

  • 博士（学術）（東京大学）

  • 修士（学術）（東京大学）

Committee Memberships 3

  • 国際開発学会　理事

    2021/10 - 2023/10

  • 日本政治学会　企画委員会委員

    2018/11 - 2019/10

  • 日本国際政治学会　ラテンアメリカ分科会責任者

    2015/10 - 2016/10

Research Areas 1

  • Humanities & social sciences / Politics /

Awards 1

  1. 特別賞

    2019/11　国際開発学会　岡部恭宜編著『青年海外協力隊は何をもたらしたか――－開発協力とグローバル人材育成50年の成果』ミネルヴァ書房、2018年。

Papers 13

  1. Role of Social Capital in International Volunteering: Evidence From Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers Peer-reviewed

    Mayuko Onuki, Yasunobu Okabe

    Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly　2025/06/25

    Publisher: SAGE Publications

    DOI： 10.1177/08997640251344847 　

    ISSN： 0899-7640

    eISSN： 1552-7395

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    Building relationships is a key strength of international volunteering for development. This study explores the role of bonding, bridging, and linking social capital in shaping the effectiveness of international volunteering. Using survey data from 1,330 Japanese international volunteers who completed surveys before, during, or after their 2-year volunteering experiences, the study employs principal components and multiple regression analyses to construct social capital measures and examine their association with perceived volunteer achievement and outcomes. The results indicate that bonding social capital, developed within host organizations, was positively associated with volunteers’ perceived achievements and outcomes. Furthermore, bridging social capital with local people outside host organizations and linking social capital with the volunteer-sending organization—both created during the first half of the volunteering experience—were also associated with enhanced outcomes. The findings highlight that social capital is crucial in overcoming challenges and maximizing the impact of international volunteering for development.

  2. What Motivates Japan's International Volunteers? Categorizing Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCVs) Peer-reviewed

    Okabe, Yasunobu, Shiratori, Sakiko, Suda, Kazuya

    VOLUNTAS　30　(5)　1069-1089　2019/10

    DOI： 10.1007/s11266-019-00110-x 　

    ISSN： 0957-8765

    eISSN： 1573-7888

  3. 国際ボランティアが織りなすグローバル市民社会——試論 Invited

    岡部恭宜

    法学（東北大学法学部）　81　(2)　1-30　2017/06

  4. Japan overseas cooperation volunteers: Its genesis and development Peer-reviewed

    Yasunobu Okabe

    Japan's Development Assistance: Foreign Aid and the Post-2015 Agenda　222-236　2016/01/01

    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

    DOI： 10.1057/9781137505385 　

  5. 新興民主主義国における執政府の抑制——司法府と独立国家機関 Invited

    岡部恭宜

    日本比較政治学会年報——執政制度の比較政治学　(18)　157-179　2016

  6. 青年海外協力隊の50年 Invited

    岡部恭宜

    国際問題　(637)　26-36　2014/12

    Publisher:

    ISSN： 0452-3377

  7. Political Origins of the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, 1960-1965: Why the State Sends Young Volunteers Abroad Peer-reviewed

    Yasunobu Okabe

    JICA-RI Working Paper (JICA Research Institute)　(72)　2014/03

  8. 現在の脅威と将来の脅威——タイと韓国の中央銀行の独立性 Invited

    岡部恭宜

    レヴァイアサン　(55)　36-58　2014

    Publisher:

    ISSN： 1343-8166

  9. 韓国とタイにおける二つの金融危機と政治変動——内生的危機と外生的危機 Invited

    岡部恭宜

    日本政治学会編『危機と政治変動』年報政治学 2013-Ⅱ　86-108　2014/01

  10. 「経済制裁と国家のコスト--キューバと南アフリカの民主化分析」 Peer-reviewed

    日本国際政治学会編『国際政治』第128号「比較政治と国際政治の間」　(128)　130-145　2001/10

  11. "Financial Restructuring after the 1997 Crisis and Impact of the Lehman Shock: Path Dependence of Financial Systems in Korea and Thailand," JICA-RI Working Paper, No. 51 (January 2013), JICA Research Institute Peer-reviewed

    岡部 恭宜

  12. 「金融システムの多様性とその政治的起源--韓国、タイ、メキシコの比較歴史分析」、『アジア経済』第51巻第5号、2010年5月号： 22－48頁。 Peer-reviewed

    岡部 恭宜

  13. * 「千載一遇の好機――タイの政治変動と中央銀行の独立性」、『年報タイ研究』第11号、2011年、1－19頁 Peer-reviewed

    岡部 恭宜

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Misc. 1

  1. The Politics of Uneven Development: Thailand's Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective

    Yasunobu Okabe

    DEVELOPING ECONOMIES　49　(3)　347-350　2011/09

    DOI： 10.1111/j.1746-1049.2011.00138.x 　

    ISSN： 0012-1533

Books and Other Publications 13

  1. 「制度論の歴史」「中央銀行制度」日本比較政治学会編『比較政治学事典』

    丸善出版　2025

  2. State-Managed International Voluntary Service: The Case of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers

    Springer Singapore (OPEN ACCESS)　2024/10

    ISBN: 9789819736157

  3. 「米国平和部隊から青年海外協力隊へ──国際ボランティア事業の伝播」村田晃嗣編『外交と戦略』

    彩流社　2023/10

    ISBN: 9784779129292

  4. 「第４章 権威主義体制１〜3」岩崎正洋、松尾秀哉、岩坂将充編『よくわかる比較政治学』

    ミネルヴァ書房　2022/12

    ISBN: 9784623094646

  5. 「第３部Ｘー７ ＯＤＡとボランティア」大森佐和、西村幹子編『よくわかる開発学』

    ミネルヴァ書房　2022/10

    ISBN: 9784623094554

  6. 国境を越える危機・外交と制度による対応 : アジア太平洋と中東

    東京大学社会科学研究所, 保城, 広至

    東京大学出版会　2020/06

    ISBN: 9784130302180

  7. 高橋直樹、松尾秀哉、吉田徹編『現代政治のリーダーシップ——危機を生き抜いた8人の政治家』

    岡部 恭宜

    岩波書店　2019

  8. 岡部恭宜編『青年海外協力隊は何をもたらしたか——開発協力とグローバル人材育成50年の成果』

    岡部 恭宜

    ミネルヴァ書房　2018/05

  9. 金泰旭、浦上拓也、西田竜也編『アジア共同体構築への視座――政治・経済協力から考える』

    岡部 恭宜

    中央経済社　2018

  10. Hiroshi Kato, John Page, Yasutami Shimomura, eds., Japan's Development Assistance: Foreign Aid and the Post-2015 Agenda

    Yasunobu Okabe

    Palgrave Macmillan　2016

  11. T.J. Pempel and Keiichi Tsunekawa, eds., Two Crises, Different Outcomes: East Asia and Global Finance

    Yasunobu Okabe

    Cornell University Press　2015

  12. 通貨金融危機の歴史的起源--韓国、タイ、メキシコにおける金融システムの経路依存性』、木鐸社、2009年12月、322頁。

    岡部 恭宜

  13. 高橋直樹との共編）『構造と主体--比較政治学からの考察』、東京大学社会科学研究所研究シリーズ、No.35、2010年3月、110頁。

    岡部 恭宜

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Presentations 5

  1. Two Financial Crises in East Asia: Origins, Resilience and Vulnerability International-presentation

    OKABE Yasunobu

    2018/09

  2. Diffusion of international voluntary service: U.S. Peace Corps, Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, and Korea Overseas Volunteers International-presentation

    OKABE Yasunobu

    The 13th Conference of the International Society of Third-Sector Research (ISTR)　2018/07/11

  3. Diffusion of International Voluntary Service: U.S. Peace Corps, Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, and Korea Overseas Volunteers International-presentation

    OKABE Yasunobu

    International Volunteer Co-operation Organisations' Conference (IVCO) 2017, Seoul　2017/10

  4. Social Capital Formation and the Role of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCVs) International-presentation

    Yasunobu Okabe

    International Volunteer Co-operation Organisations' Conference (IVCO) 2016, Bonn　2016/10/09

  5. Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers: Its Genesis and Development from a Comparative Perspective

    Yasunobu Okabe

    International Volunteer Co-operation Organisations' Conference (IVCO) 2015, Tokyo　2015/10/04

Research Projects 7

  1. The "Third Wave" of Democratization Revisited: New Perspectives on Regime Transition

    Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

    System: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

    Institution: Tohoku University

    2024/04/01 - 2028/03/31

  2. The historical origin of the International development voluntary service and the diffusion of idea: Western and Asian cases

    Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

    System: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Institution: Tohoku University

    2019/04/01 - 2023/03/31

  3. Change made by international volunteers to developing countries and the formation of global civil society

    Okabe Yasunobu

    Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

    System: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    Institution: Tohoku University

    2016/07/19 - 2020/03/31

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    The purpose of this study project is to explore the change made by international volunteers to people in developing countries and its influence on the shaping of global civil society, from perspectives of social sciences and humanities. This study selected the case of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) and discussed that the JOCV program was effective in development cooperation, depending on the concepts of social capital and capacity development. Further, it examined the reciprocity defined as a feeling that volunteers as service provider are given something in return by local people through their JOCV activities. Also, this study addressed the issues of returned volunteers’ career path and their contribution to Japanese society and comparison between JOCV and similar programs in other countries. Finally we concluded that JOCV contributed to shaping the global civil society.

  4. Overcoming Population Decline, Earthquake Recovery and Vitalizing Local Economy

    Watanabe Tatsunori, MORITA Hatsuru, MANAGI Shunsuke

    Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

    System: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

    Institution: Tohoku University

    2016/04/01 - 2019/03/31

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    This interdisciplinary research project tackled the shrinking of society, one of the most pressing policy issues in Japan, where an aging and decreasing population is expected to shake the sustainability of local governments. First, in view of a residential decrease and diminishing social resources, we engaged in theoretical and philosophical analyses on desirable ways of maintaining social and private life, its social and institutional foundations, and their historical changes. Second, by focusing on the discrepancy between the legal system established in Japan during the period of population growth and the legal issues in the period of population decline, we identified some options for how to reorganize the legal system to suit a shrinking society. Finally, we examined feasible and comprehensive policy options, which could address a wide variety of practical issues that might arise from population decline related to governance, public law, and civil law.

  5. Comparative Political Economy in East Asia after the 1997-98 Economic Crisis

    TSUNEKAWA Keiichi, ONISHI Yutaka, MIYAKE Yasuyuki, MATSUMOTO Mitsutoyo, KAWANO Motoko, OKABE Yasunobu

    Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

    System: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    Institution: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

    2012/04/01 - 2015/03/31

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    The East Asian countries (except Japan) achieved the V-shaped recovery through efforts to liberalize trade and investment, improve the technological capacity, and to make the labor market more flexible. These reforms never progressed through the automatic corrective mechanism of the market but were realized through political coordination of interests among big enterprises, SMEs, farmers, workers, and socially vulnerable people. The content and effectiveness of the reforms vary reflecting different political institutions and different state-society relations in these countries. However, they are converging in the point that political coordination of interests is increasingly difficult due to the trade-off relations existing between trade liberalization (and/or the labor market reform) and the enhancement of social welfare programs and between the short-term increase of returns for individual enterprises and the long-term improvement of the national capacity for technological innovation.

  6. タイ中央銀行の独立性に関する政治学研究――韓国、メキシコとの比較分析

    岡部 恭宜

    Offer Organization: 日本学術振興会

    System: 科学研究費助成事業

    Category: 基盤研究(C)

    Institution: 東京大学

    2010 - 2010

  7. Policy Making Process of Financial Restructuring : Comparative Study of South Korea, Thailand, and Mexico.

    OKABE Yasunobu

    Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

    System: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Start-up)

    Institution: The University of Tokyo

    2008 - 2009

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    The purpose of this study is to explore, from a comparative perspective, political processes on financial restructuring that governments of South Korea, Thailand, and Mexico tackled after the financial crises in the 1990s. The researcher visited Thailand and Mexico in 2009 and South Korea in 2010 for making research. In the three countries, he had interviews with incumbent and former executives of ministry of finance, central bank, professors and researchers of university and institutes, staffs of Japanese embassies and Japanese commercial banks. Also he worked to collect documents, articles and books at university libraries, institutions, and government organizations. The researcher made an analysis based on the research in the three countries and reached the following conclusion. The Kim Dae Jung government of Korea chose a government-led approach because of legacy of its interventionism in the market and the control of commercial banks. This legacy was evident in the organization and personnel of economic ministries such as the Financial Supervisory Commission. In Thailand, two legacies influenced the government decision to adopt a market initiative approach. First, Thailand's economic ministries had maintained non-interventionism in the market since the 1960s. Second, under the oligopoly of the largest banks, which continued even in the post-crisis years, government policy tended to reflect the preference of private bankers for the market-led approach. Mexico's financial restructuring, featuring government initiative and substantial access for foreign capital (free market principles), was determined by two different factors. First, the government initiative reflected the PRI's tradition of interventionism in the economy. Second, however, government leaders no longer hoped to control the financial market as they had done before the Peso crisis. Their economic ideology was transformed into neoliberalism. This ideological change occurred because they had been seriously damaged by the two financial crises in 1982 and 1994.

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Social Activities 4

  1. 仙台第二高等学校

    2016/12/15 -

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  2. 山形県立山形南高等学校

    2016/09/14 -

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  3. 仙台第三高等学校

    2016/05/27 -

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    進路後援会講師

  4. 仙台第二高等学校

    2015/12/17 -

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