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Chris Hughes

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Chris Hughes is Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies in PAIS, as well as a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. Previously he was Research Associate at the Institute for Peace Science, Hiroshima University (IPSHU). From 2000-2001 he was Visiting Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo; and in 2006 he held the Asahi Shimbun Visiting Chair of Mass Media and Politics at the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo. He holds degrees from the universities of Oxford (BA and MA), Rochester (MA), and Sheffield (MA and PhD). He is an honorary Reserach Associate at IPSHU. and has been a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), and Visiting Scholar at the East Asia Institute, The Free University of Berlin. In 2009-2010 he will be the Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies, at the Department of Government and Reischauer Institute, Harvard University. Research scholarships have been received from the Japanese Ministry of Education, the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee, the European Union, British Council, and the British Academy.

He is Director of Graduate Studies in PAIS.

His research interests include Japanese foreign and security policy; Japanese international political economy; regionalism in East Asia; Japanese radicalism and terrorism; post-Cold War traditional and non-traditional security policy, and North Korea's external political and economic relations.

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He is the author of Japan's Economic Power and Security: Japan and North Korea (Routledge, 1999) and Japan's Security Agenda: Military, Economic and Environmental Dimensions  (Lynne Rienner, 2004), Japan's Remergence as a 'Normal' Military Power? (Oxford University Press, 2004), and Japan's Remilitarisation (Routledge 2009), and co-author of Japan's International Relations: Politics:Economics and Security (Routledge, 2001 and 2005). He has published articles in English and Japanese in journals such as International Affairs, Asian Survey, Survival, The Pacific Review, Review of International Political Economy, The Australian Journal of International Affairs, Security Dialogue, Pacific Affairs, and Orbis. He is co-editor of The Pacific Review.

Currently he is working on projects which examine Japan's response to issues of globalisation and governance; the intersection of globalisation and security, with particular reference to the Asia-Pacific region;  the impact on regional and global security of missile defence; and the future of multilateral and bilateral security and trading arrangements in the Asia-Pacific.

He teaches the modules on the International Relations of Pacific Asia and Asia-Pacific Security in PAIS, and currently supervises PhD students in the areas of Japanese foreign and security policy, Japan and globalisation, Japan's international political economy in East Asia,  inter-Korean politics, transnational crime and security in ASEAN,  and security studies.

 PODCAST: Chris Hughes, Chalmers Johnson and Akira Iriye discuss the future of Japan's military posture in East Asia. 'Japan's New Militarism: Playing with Fire and History', 1 May 2008,  http://www.asia2025.net/index.cgi?tid=63

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E-mail:   c.w.hughes@warwick.ac.uk  
         

 

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