Nikolay's research interests include Japan’s economic statecraft, development cooperation, modernisation, knowledge production and knowledge-sharing, as well as international political economy of connectivity infrastructure and finance. 

Nikolay Murashkin is a scholar of contemporary Japanese foreign policy and international relations in Asia Pacific. Nikolay is working for ANU as lecturer for the BAPA program, jointly run with Ritsumeikan University in Osaka. He is also a visiting fellow at the JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development, where he has previously worked as research fellow. Nikolay's research outputs were published in his 2020 monograph ‘Japan and the New Silk Road’, peer-reviewed journals, such as the Australian Journal of International Affairs and others, and edited volumes.

Murashkin, N. (2020). Japan and the New Silk Road: Diplomacy, Development, and Connectivity, London: Routledge.

•Endo K. and Murashkin N. (2023). ‘Japan’s infrastructure export and development cooperation: the role of ODA loan projects in the 2010s’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 77:2, 129-149.

•Murashkin, N., & Varpahovskis, E. (2022). The role of development models in Japan’s and Korea’s relations with Central Asia: Discourses and practices  . Journal of Eurasian Studies, 13(2), 180–199.

• Murashkin, N. (2021). La Cooperación Al Desarrollo De Japón: De Hacer Enmiendas a Establecer Programas. Revista de Fomento Social, no. 300 (octubre 8): 351-373.

• Murashkin, N. (2018). “Not-So-New Silk Roads: Japan’s Foreign Policies on Asian Connectivity Infrastructure under the Radar,” Australian Journal of International Affairs, 72:5, pp.455-72. 

• Lee J., Landau-Ward A., and Murashkin N. (2017). “We’ve experienced that too”: Indonesian Support for Japan Following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake,” New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 19:2, pp.55-72.

• Murashkin, N. (2015). “Japanese involvement in Central Asia: an early inter-Asian post-neoliberal case?” Asian Journal of Social Science, 43:1-2, pp.50-79.

• Murashkin, N. “Japanese foreign policy in Central Asia,” Isuramu Kagaku Kenkyu No. 8, p.85-92, 2012.

• Oiwa, N. and Murashkin, N. (2023). Institutional Mechanisms and Maritime Development Cooperation: Building a Context for India-Japan-ASEAN. (Ed.) Jagannath P. Panda India-Japan-ASEAN Triangularity. Emergence of a Possible Indo-Pacific Axis? Routledge.

• Murashkin N. (2020). “Japan’s Value-Oriented and Resource Diplomacy in Central Asia: Before and After Belt and Road”, (Eds.) Jain P. and Lam P., Japan’s Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Continuity and Change. Rowman & Littlefield, pp.307-29.

• Murashkin N. (2020). “The Belt and Road Initiative and Sino-Russo-Japanese relations,” (Eds.) De Cremer D., Zhang X., and McGuire J., Reflections on the Challenges of the Belt and Road Initiative, SAGE, pp.111-36, 2020.

• Murashkin N. (2012). “Foreign policy of the Democratic Party of Japan’s cabinets in 2009-12” [in Russian], Japan: March 11, 2011. Results and Takeaways, Institute of Oriental Studies, pp.146-69, 2012.

• Murashkin, N. and Maruyama, T. (2024). Mapping JICA-supported Works on Japan’s Development Experience in Development Studies: Their Particularities and Potentials, JICA Ogata Research Institute Discussion Paper No.19. Tokyo: JICA Ogata Research Institute for Peace and Development. 

• Murashkin, N. (2022). New Challenges to Japan’s Indo-Pacific Vision: COVIDtivity and the 2020s ‘Kindleberger moment,’ Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Policy Paper, 2022/10

• Murashkin N. (2020). “Japan and Regional Connectivity in the Indo-Pacific: Changing Approach and the Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative,” (Eds.) Fukushima T. and Hall I., The Implication of Connectivity Agendas for Our Economic Well-Being and Our Security: Proceedings of the conference between the Center for Global Security, National Defense Academy and the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University held on November 12, 2018 in Yokosuka, Japan; Global Security Seminar Series No.4, p.45-54, Yokosuka.

• Murashkin, N. (2019). Japan and Central Asia: Do Diplomacy and Business Go Hand-in-Hand? French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), policy paper, April.