Education: BA, MA, University of Oxford; MA, Rochester University; MA, PhD, University of Sheffield

Career: Christopher Hughes is Senior Research Fellow and Acting Co-Director at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, and concurrently Professor in International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. Previously he was Research Associate at the Institute for Peace Science, Hiroshima University (IPSHU) where he is still an Honorary Research Associate. From 2000–01 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 has been a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Visiting Scholar at the East Asia Institute, Free University of Berlin. He has received research scholarships from the Japanese Ministry of Education, the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee, the European Union and the British Academy. 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. Christopher Hughes is co-editor of the journal The Pacific Review (see url below).

Publications include: Japanese Business Management: Restructuring for Low Growth and Globalisation (translation) 1997, Japan’s Economic Power and Security: Japan and North Korea 1999, New Regionalisms in the Global Political Economy: Theories and Cases (co-editor) 2002, Japan’s Re-emergence as a ‘Normal’ Military Power? 2004, Japan’s Security Agenda: Military, Economic and Environmental Dimensions 2004, Japan’s International Relations: Politics: Economics and Security (second edition; co-author) 2005; numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Room S1.51, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England; Tel: +44 (0)24 7657-2631; Fax: +44 (0)24 7652-4221; Email: c.w.hughes@warwick.ac.uk ; Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09512748.asp/ .