Yudai Ri

Yudai Ri is senior lecturer at the Faculty of Global Studies, Tokai University (Japan), and co-researcher at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University. He obtained a doctoral degree from the Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, in September 2024. His doctoral thesis, titled “Infiltrating National Sovereignties: The Transnational History of Russia and Iran after the Russian Revolution (1917–1927) (unfortunately the original in Japanese),” received a special award for excellence from the Graduate School. His research interests range from the relations between Imperial Russia/Soviet Union and Iran, modern geopolitics in the Caspian region, to a comparative historical analysis of the Soviet southern and far eastern border regions.