Teaching and Supervisions

PhD Supervisions

Prof Hughes supervises doctoral researchers working on topics such as Japan’s international relations, Japanese security and military policy, US-Japan relations, Japan-China relations, Japan-Korea relations, Japan-ASEAN relations, US security strategy in East Asia, new military technology, the political economy of defence, and East Asian security in general. Chris welcomes approaches from well-qualified and motivated students looking for a potential supervisor in these areas.

A list of current and past students is listed here.

Supervisions in progress Completed students

Supervisions in progress

Traumatizing Japan: Securitization and Ontological Security in Foreign Policy Making.

June McCabe

The 'Normalisation' of the Culture and Identity of the Japan Self-Defences and Effect on the Politics of Antimilitarism

Natsumi Shiino 

Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy

Completed students

The Dynamics of Triangular Intra-Alliance Politics: Political Interventions of the United States.

South Korea’s Sunshine Policy Towards North Korea, 1998-2002: Domestic Imperatives and Private Interests.

Japan and East Asian Monetary Regionalism: Towards a Proactive Leadership Role?

Globalisation, Labour Migration and State Transformation in Japan: The Language Barrier and Resilience of the Japanese State in the 1990s.

Identity Transformation and Japan’s UN Security Policy: From the Gulf Crisis to Human Security.

Policy and Ideas in the People’s Republic of China: The Evolution of the Discourse on Economic Security, 1997-2006.

Japan’s Diplomacy Towards ASEAN: A Study of the Determinants of the Japanese Foreign Policy-Making System.

Nationalism and Power Politics in Japan’s Relations with China: A Neoclassical Realist Interpretation.

The Role of Identity in Northeast Asian Security Culture: South Korea’s Middle Power Diplomacy and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis.

Sino-Japanese Competitive Leadership and East Asian Regionalism: The Chiang Mai Initiative and East Asian Organisations.

Japan’s Foreign Policy towards India: A Neoclassical Realist Analysis of the Policymaking Process.

Japan’s Persistent Engagement Policy toward Myanmar in the Post-Cold War Era: A Case of Japan’s ‘Problem-Driven Practicalism’.

Race, Biometrics, and Security in Modern Japan: A History of Border Politics in Japan.

Moving Beyond (Traditional) Alliance Theory: The US- Neo-Gramscian Approach to the US-Japan Alliance.

The US-Japan Alliance and the Relocation of Futenma: Sites of Discursive Exchange in the Reproduction of Security.

Geopolitics as a Traveling Theory: The Evolution of Geopolitical Imagination in Japan, 1925-1945.

Japanese Resistance to American Financial Hegemony: Global Versus Domestic Social Norms.

The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament: Obstacles to and Opportunities for Eliminating Nuclear Weapons in and Between Nuclear Weapons States.

US Grand Strategy Towards China, 1991-2015: A Neoclassical Realist Analysis.

A Historical Institutionalist Approach to Asian Financial Regionalism: A Case Study of the Making of Japan’s Regional Financial Cooperation Policies, 1997-2017.

Japan’s Incremental Grand Strategic Shift in the 21st Century: The Cases of Article 9 and Ballistic Missile Defence Through a Neoclassical Realist Approach.

America’s Alliance Management and Military Technology Transfer Policies: The Case of Japan and South Korea in Aerospace Cooperation.

Emotional Attachment: Emotions and Gender in Japanese Conservatives’ Pursuit of Ontological Security.

Seuk Hoon Baik

A Strategic Theory of International Politics: The Origins of War

Max Warrack

Japan's Cultural Remilitarisation: Gendered Representations of the Japan Self Defence Forces in Manga.

Xinyuan Ren

Chinese nationalism and foreign policy

Veronica Barfucci

Japan’s (Re)Masculinisation: Gender Performativity, Status-Seeking, and Ontological Security