Saul Takahashi is Professor of Human Rights and Peace Studies at Osaka Jogakuin University, in Osaka, Japan. A former UN civil servant, he lived in Palestine for five years as Deputy Head of Office of the UN Human Rights Agency. Saul is author of several books, including Civil and Political Rights in Japan: a Tribute to Sir Nigel Rodley (Routledge); Human Rights and Drug Control: the False Dichotomy (Hart Publishing); and Human Rights, Human Security, and State Security: the Intersection (Praeger Publishing, ed.)