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Christopher Hughes is Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK. Previously he was Research Associate at the Institute for Peace Science, Hiroshima University. In 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 has been a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), and the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), as well a Visiting Scholar at the East Asia Institute, The Free University of Berlin.

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. Since 2000 he has been co-editor of the journal The Pacific Review.

His research to date has focused on Japan's security and defense policy; Japan's international relations and grand strategy, with a particular interest in East Asian regionalism, Japan-North Korea relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and the U.S.-Japan alliance; and the study of security in the Asia-Pacific and globally. At Harvard, he will concentrate on research projects dealing with changing civilian control in Japan; Japan's response to the nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula; Japan's FTA strategy in East Asia; and Japan and the Ballistic Missile Defense.

COURSES TAUGHT BY PROFESSOR HUGHES:

Government 2776: Japan and East Asian Security
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Catalog Number: 62215
How does Japan’s remilitarization impact upon East Asia? Topics include: Japan’s strategy and policy-making; JSDF military power; the US-Japan alliance; Japan and North Korea, China and Southeast Asia; defense production; Japan’s nuclear policy; and multilateral security.

Government 1765: Asia-Pacific Security
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 11:30–1. EXAM GROUP: 13, 14
Catalog Number: 47108
Surveys key security dynamics, actors and issues in the Asia-Pacific. Topics include: the US alliance system in the Asia-Pacific; China’s military rise; Japanese militarization; the security capabilities of the Koreas and Southeast Asia, Australia, and Russia; insurgency and transnational terrorism; territorial disputes; North Korea and Taiwan; nuclear proliferation; MD; arms races; maritime security, energy security, and transnational crime; and multilateral security. All issues are studied in conjunction with major paradigmatic and critical theoretical approaches.