Kosuke Shimizu is the Dean of the Faculty of International Studies and professor of International Relations at the Department of Global Studies, Ryukoku University, Kyoto. He is currently working on Buddhism and Quantum Mechanics and their application to International Relations theories. His recent publications in journals include Kosuke Shimizu (2024), ‘Buddhism, quantum theory and international relations: On the strength of the subject, the discontinuous relationality, and the world of contingency’, Journal of International Political Theory 20(1): 91-95, Kosuke Shimizu and Sei Noro (2024). 'Political Healing and Mahāyāna Buddhist Medicine: a critical engagement with contemporary international relations'. Third World Quarterly 45(6): 1035-1050, Kosuke Shimizu and Sei Noro (2023), ‘An East Asian Approach to Temporality, Subjectivity, and Ethics: bringing Mahayana Buddhist Ontological ethics of Nikon into international relations’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 36(3): 372-390, He also published three books in English and the most recent is Kosuke Shimizu (2022). The Kyoto School and International Relations: Non-Western attempts for a new world order. (Abingdon: Routledge).