Takumi Shibaike

Takumi Shibaike

Assistant Professor of Political Science (He/Him)

Research

My research focuses on the role of civil society activism in global environmental governance. I am especially interested in the role of small NGOs in the governance of biodiversity and climate change. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments on my work.

Replicaton files are available on my GitHub.

Acronyms: NGO (nongovernmental organization), INGO (international nongovernmental organization), UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), TSMO (transnational social mobilization organization), COP (Conference of the Parties), RFMO (regional fisheries management organization)

Books

  1. Who tells your story? Women and indigenous peoples advocacy at the UNFCCC. Cambridge University Press (Elements in organizational respone to climate change), 2025. (with Bi Zhao). doi.org/10.1017/9781009472920.

  2. Framing the Military: News Media and Canadian Defence Politics. (eds.). UBC Press, under contract. (with Jean-Christophe Boucher and Alexandra Richards).

Refereed Articles

  1. “Local backlash against INGOs? How heterogeneous interests condition the effects of conservation advocacy campaigns.” The Journal of Politics 87.3 (2025): 1156–1168. doi.org/10.1086/732968.

  2. “The ‘inclusion’ of civil society in the Organization of African Unity.” Interest Groups & Advocacy 14.2 (2025): 89–106. (with Alfred Oduro). doi.org/10.1057/s41309-025-00232-2.

  3. “The power of specialization: NGO advocacy in global conservation governance.” International Studies Quarterly 67.2 (2023): sqad023. doi.org/10.1177/08997640221085731.

  4. “Understanding national nonprofit data environments.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 52.2 (2023): 281–303. (with Elizabeth A. Bloodgood, Michael Lenczner, Jesse Bourns, Jenny Tabet, Amy Melvin, and Wendy H. Wong). doi.org/10.1177/08997640221085731.

  5. “The stories they tell: What INGO mission statements reveal about their authority.” Global Society 37.1 (2023): 23–50. (with Wendy H. Wong, Sarah S. Stroup, and Alfred Oduro). doi.org/10.1080/13600826.2021.1970516.

  6. “Overcoming the laws-in-translation problem: Comparing techniques for translating legal texts.” Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 20.2 (2022): 13–21. (with Anthony J. DeMattee, Nick Gertler, and Elizabeth A. Bloodgood). doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7140081.

  7. “Legitimacy and legitimation practices: An analysis of TSMO networks.” Complexity, Governance & Networks 8.1 (2022): 1–24. doi.org/10.20377/cgn-114.

  8. “Small NGOs and agenda-setting in global conservation governance: The case of pangolin conservation.” Global Environmental Politics 22.2 (2022): 45–69. doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00623.

Working Papers

  1. “The Emergence of Hybrid Organizations.” (with Graeme Auld, Søren Lund Frandsen, Jacob Hasselbalch, Stefan Renckens, and Ole Willers).

  2. “Deep-Sea Mining and the Agency of Pacific Island Countries.” (with Azusa Uji).

  3. “Does hope help? Emotions and climate justice in social media posts during UNFCCC COPs.”

  4. “Ideologies and North-South Representations of NGOs at CITES.”

  5. “Framing climate justice at the UNFCCC.” (with Bi Zhao).

  6. “Military Procurement in the Canadian News (2001-2019).” In Framing the Military: News Media and Canadian Defence Politics. (with Jean-Christophe Boucher).