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Refereed Journal Articles

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Japan's 'Three National Security Documents' and Defence Capabilities: Reinforcing a Radical Military Trajectory, The Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 50, no. 1, 2024, pp. 155-183.

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Japan's Grand Strategy: The Abe Era and Its AftermathLink opens in a new window, Christopher W. Hughes, Alessio Patalano and Robert Ward, Survival, 63:1, 2021, pp. 125-160

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'Hiding in plain sight? Japan’s militarization of space and challenges to the Yoshida doctrine’, with Paul Kallender, Asian Security, vol. 15, no. 2, 2019, pp. 180-204 (DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2018.1439017; ISSN 1479-9855).

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'Japan's rise and fall (and rise again)The Pacific Review, vol. 30, no. 6 2017, pp. 885-894.

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'Japan’s emerging arms transfer strategy: diversifying to re-centre on the US-Japan alliance’, The Pacific Review, vol. 31. no. 4, 2017, pp. 424-440.

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'Japan’s security trajectory and collective self-defence: essential continuity or radical change’, Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter 2017, pp. 93-126.

Journal of Strategic Studies

'Japan’s emerging trajectory as a “cyber-power”: from securitization to militarization of cyberspace’, with Paul Kallender, Journal of Strategic StudiesLink opens in a new window, Vol. 40, no 1-2, 2017, pp. 118-145.

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'Japan’s "Resentful Realism" and Balancing China’s Rise', The Chinese Journal of International PoliticsLink opens in a new window, vol. 9, no. 2, Summer 2016, pp. 109-75.

QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 2016

'Yuanhen de xianshi zhuyi” yu Riben zhiheng Zhongguo jueqi’, Guoji Zhengzhi Kexue, Vol. 1, No, 4, 2016, pp. 59-98.

space_policy.jpg   'Japan, Ballistic Missile Defence and remilitarisation’, Space PolicyLink opens in a new window, 2013, pp. 1-7.
journal of japanese studies   'The Democratic Party of Japan’s New (but Failing) Grand Security Strategy: From “Reluctant Realism” to “Resentful Realism”?’, Journal of Japanese StudiesLink opens in a new window, vol. 38, no. 1, Winter 2012, pp. 109-140.
Journal of Strategic Studies   'The Slow Death of Japanese Techno-Nationalism? Emerging Comparative Lessons for China's Defense Production', Journal of Strategic StudiesLink opens in a new window, vol. 34, no. 3, 2011, pp. 451-479.
ia_front_cover.jpg   'Japan's response to China's rise: regional engagement, global containment, dangers of collision', International AffairsLink opens in a new window, vol. 85, no. 4, 2009, pp. 191-214.
a-p_review_cover.jpg   'Japan's military modernisation: a quiet Japan-China arms race and global power projection', Asia-Pacific ReviewLink opens in a new window, vol. 16, no. 1, May 2009, pp. 84-99.
asian_survey.jpg   '"Supersizing" the DPRK threat: Japan's Evolving Military Posture and North Korea', Asian SurveyLink opens in a new window, vol. 49, no. 2, March/April 2009, 291-312.
pacific_review_cover.jpg   'Managing the MedUSA: comparing the political economy of US-Japan, US-UK, and US-Germany relations', The Pacific ReviewLink opens in a new window, vol. 20, no. 3, September 2007, pp. 257-271 (with Ellis S. Krauss and Verena Blechinger Talcott.
survival.jpg   'Japan's new security agenda', Survival: The IISS QuarterlyLink opens in a new window, vol. 49, no. 2, Summer 2007, pp. 157-176 (with Ellis S. Krauss).
cambridge_review.jpg   'Not quite the "Great Britain of the Far East": Japan's security, the US-Japan alliance, and the "war on terror"', Cambridge Review of International AffairsLink opens in a new window, vol. 20, no. 2, June 2007, pp. 325-338.
asiapolicy2_c1.jpg   North Korea’s nuclear weapons: implications for the nuclear ambitions of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan’, Asia PolicyLink opens in a new window, vol. 2, no. 1, January 2007, pp 105-123.
pacific_affairs.gif   The political economy of Japanese sanctions towards North Korea: domestic coalitions and international systemic pressures’, Pacific AffairsLink opens in a new window, vol. 79. no. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 455-481.
orbis_cover.gif   'Why Japan Could Revise Its Constitution and What It Would Mean for Japanese Security Policy', Orbis: A Journal of World AffairsLink opens in a new window, vol. 50, no. 4, Fall 2006, pp. 724-744.
AJIA.jpg   Japan’s security policy, the US Japan alliance, and the ‘war on terror’: incrementalism confirmed or radical leap’, Australian Journal of International AffairsLink opens in a new window, vol. 58, no. 4, December 2004, pp. 427 445.
a-p_review_cover.jpg   Japan-North Korea relations from the North-South summit to the Koizumi-Kim Summit’, Asia-Pacific ReviewLink opens in a new window vol. 9, no. 2, November 2002, pp. 61-78.
cambridge_review.jpg   Reflections on globalisation, security and 9/11’, Cambridge Review of International AffairsLink opens in a new window, vol. 15, no. 3, October 2002, pp. 421-434. (Reprinted in Marina Della Giusta, Uma S. Kambhampati, and Robert Wade (eds.) Critical Perspectives on Globalization, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2006)
ejeas_cover.jpg   Japan and the East Asian Financial Crisis: Patterns, Motivations and Instrumentalisation of Japanese Regional Economic Diplomacy’, with G. Hook, J. Gilson, and H. Dobson, European Journal of East Asian StudiesLink opens in a new window, vol. 1, no. 2, 2002, pp. 177-198.
haq_cover.png   Japan’s changing structure of civilian control: Japan, civilian control and the “normal” state’, Harvard Asia Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 2, Autumn 2002, pp. 22-27.
secdia.gif   'Conceptualising the globalisation security nexus in the Asia Pacific', Security DialogueLink opens in a new window, vol. 32, no. 4, December 2001, pp. 407 21.
korean_journal_of_defense_analysis.gif   'Japan’s strategy-less North Korean strategy: shifting policies of containment and engagement and implications for US-Japan-South Korea security co-operation', Korean Journal of Defense AnalysisLink opens in a new window, vol. 12, no. 2, Winter 2000, pp. 153-181.
RIPE.jpg   'Japanese policy and the East Asian currency crisis: abject defeat or quiet victory?', Review of International Political EconomyLink opens in a new window vol. 7, no. 2, 2000, pp. 219-253.
PR.jpg   'Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo, the changing nature of terrorism, and the post Cold War security agenda’, Pacifica Review: Peace Security and Global ChangeLink opens in a new window, vol. 10, no. 1, February 1998, pp. 39 60.
pacific_review_cover.jpg   Japanese policy and the North Korean ‘soft landing’, The Pacific ReviewLink opens in a new window, vol. 11, no. 3, 1998, pp. 389-415.
pacific_review_cover.jpg   Japan’s subregional and defence linkages with ASEANs, South Korea and China in the 1990s’, The Pacific ReviewLink opens in a new window, vol. 9, no. 2, Spring 1996, pp. 229-50.
survival.jpg   The North Korean nuclear crisis and Japanese security’, Survival: The IISS QuarterlyLink opens in a new window, vol. 38, no. 2, Spring 1996, pp. 79-103.

Selected Non-Refereed Journal Articles

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'Japan's decaying anti-militarism ecosystem,' Asia Policy, vol. 18, no. 2, 2023, pp. 173-178 (part of roundtable on Japan's Ageing Peace)

Battle Lines

'European University Institute policy brief on UK-Japan Strategic Convergence Post-Brexit', by Christopher W. Hughes published September 2021

Battle Lines

'From Abe to Outer Space, Can Japan’s Military Techno-Nationalism Survive?’, by Christopher W. Hughes
Global Asia Vol. 14, No. 1, March 2019

Battle Lines

'Japan's foreign and security policy under the Abe Doctrine’, by Christopher W. Hughes
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Japan Focus, Volume 13, Issue 30, Number 4, Article ID 4832, Jul 27, 2015

JISS 'Japan as civilian power, soft power, or normal military power', Journal for International and Strategic Studies, N4 Special Issue: Japan, Spring 2011, pp. 14-19.