Keisuke Iida is a Professor in the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. His area of specialization is International Political Economy.
His major publications include International Monetary Cooperation among the United States, Japan and Germany (1999), Legalization and Japan: The Politics of WTO Dispute Settlement (2006), International Political Economy (in Japanese, 2007), and The Future of Economic Hegemony (in Japanese, 2013). He has published numerous articles in international journals such as International Organization, Public Choice, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and so on. Currently, he is writing a book on the nexus between security and economic interdependence. His research interests include the politics of trade, the political economy of financial crises, the politics of regional integration, and the interactions between security and economics.
Currently, he is a member on the Board of Directors at the Japan Association of International Relations (JAIR). He is also a member of the Policy Council at the Japan Forum on International Relations (JFIR). He is an editor of the journal Leviathan.
He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. He has formerly taught at Princeton University and Aoyama Gakuin University. He has been a fellow at Brookings Institution and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.