KIKKAWA Takuro    Department   Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University  College of Asia Pacific Studies    Position   Professor
Research Period	2012/04～2016/03
Research Topic	The Muslim Brotherhood in the Contemporary Middle East: A Study on Its Political Activities and International Networks
Research Type	Individual Research
Research Division	KAKENHI Research
Consignor	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Program Type	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
KAKENHI Grant No.	24310188
Responsibility	Research Contributor
Representative Person	Yokota Takayuki
Details	The aim of our study project is to explore the political ideologies and activities of the Muslim Brotherhoods in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Palestine and Algeria and their international networks by field researches and analyses of Arabic primary sources. Referring to the political rises and declines of the MBs after the 'Arab Spring,' we made empirical studies and demonstrated that they tried to maintain the cooperative relations while each MB kept its own independence.