Yuhki Tajima

Associate Professor and Program Director
Georgetown SFS Asia Pacific

Yuhki Tajima is Director of the Asian Studies Program and Associate Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has authored a book entitled The Institutional Origins of Communal Violence: Indonesia’s Transition from Authoritarian Rule (Cambridge University Press) and articles in The American Journal of Political Science, The American Political Science Review, International Organization, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Journal of East Asian Studies, The Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, and The World Bank Indonesian Social Development Papers. His research examines communal violence, insurgencies, post-war societies, criminal gangs, disinformation, ASEAN relations, and the political economy of development using extensive fieldwork and quantitative methods.

His work has been supported by The World Bank, The Asian Development Bank, Innovations for Poverty Action, The Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, and The Pacific Rim Research Program. Dr. Tajima was previously Assistant Professor of Political Science at The University of California, Riverside and an Order, Conflict, and Violence Fellow at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International Affairs. He has consulted extensively with the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme and was a researcher at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He holds a PhD in Public Policy and an MPA in International Development from Harvard University and a BA in Physics from Swarthmore College, and University of New South Wales (UNSW).