Mukoyama, Naosuke. Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States. Under contract with Cambridge University Press. https://t.co/P9CD37bgpj
Winner of the 46th Institute for Developing Economies’ Award for the Promotion of Studies on Developing Countries
Shortlisted for the 2025 Hedley Bull Prize by the European Consortium for Political Research
Reviewed in International Affairs, Perspectives on Politics, Environmental Politics, and Cambridge Review of International Affairs
Translated into Japanese (Keio University Press, 2025)
Mukoyama, Naosuke. 2023. “Colonial Oil and State-Making: The Separate Independence of Qatar and Bahrain.” Comparative Politics, 55(4), 573-595. https://doi.org/10.5129/001041523X16801041950603
Runner-up, Barbara Tuchman Award by ISA Historical International Relations Section
Mukoyama, Naosuke. 2023. “The Eastern cousin of European sovereign states?: The development of linear borders in early modern Japan.” European Journal of International Relations, 29(2), 255-282. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540661221133206
Winner, Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations by ISA Historical International Relations Section
Winner, The Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics by American Political Science Association, International History and Politics Section
Mukoyama, Naosuke. 2020. “Colonial Origins of the Resource Curse: Endogenous Sovereignty and Authoritarianism in Brunei.” Democratization, 27(2), 224-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2019.1678591
Mukoyama, Naosuke. 2018. "Causes and Consequences of Third-Party Intervention in Disputes over History: Recognition of the Armenian Massacre as Genocide and Relations with Turkey." World Political Science, 14(1), 101-122.
English translation of an article in Japanese that received the 10th JAIR Best Paper Award from the Japan Association of International Relations. (Original article: Mukoyama, Naosuke. 2017. “Daisangoku ni yoru rekishi ninshiki mondai heno kainyu no youin to kiketsu: Arumenia jin gyakusatsu heno genocide nintei to Toruko,” Kokusai Seiji, 187:30–45.)
Winner, JAIR Best Paper Award by the Japan Association of International Relations
Winner, Ishibashi Tanzan Young Researcher Award by Ishibashi Tanzan Memorial Foundation