Professor Hugo Dobson
BA, MA (Leeds), MEd, PhD (Sheffield) | | |
Email: h.dobson@shef.ac.uk
| ProfileHugo Dobson is Professor in the international relations of Japan and Sub-Dean for Postgraduate Affairs in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Previous to this he was lecturer in the international relations of East Asia at the University of Kent at Canterbury and a research fellow of the International Centre for Comparative Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. He has studied at the universities of Leeds, London and Sheffield and was the recipient of the two-year Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Scholarship.
His research interests include Japan's international relations, global governance and the G8. He is the co-author of Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security (Routledge, 2005, second edition), co-editor of Britain and Japan in the Contemporary World: Responses to Common Issues (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003); and Japan and Global Governance: The Institutional Architecture (RoutledgeCurzon, 2007), and is the author of Japan and United Nations Peacekeeping: New Pressures, New Responses (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003); Japan and G7/8, 1975 to 2002 (RoutledgeCurzon, 2004); and The Group of 7/8 (Routledge, 2007).
He has also published articles in journals such as the European Journal of East Asian Studies, International Peacekeeping, The Journal of Popular Culture and Japan Forum. He is currently co-editing book on East Asian postage stamps as socio-political artefacts.
| Current Research ProjectsMy research interests are divided into two broad fields. The first strand builds upon the work completed so far in Japan's international relations, multilateralism, and especially the G8. This is manifest in a number of publications including the following books:
Kosuge Nobuko and Hugo Dobson (eds) (2009) Japan and Britain at War and Peace, London: Routledge.
Glenn D. Hook and Hugo Dobson (eds) Global Governance and Japan: The Institutional Architecture (RoutledgeCurzon, 2007).
The Group of 7/8, Routledge, 2007
This a contribution to the Routledge series on Global Institutions and provides a one-stop point of entry for students to the subject of the G7/8 summits.
Glenn Hook, Julie Gilson, Christopher Hughes and Hugo Dobson, Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security, Routledge, 2005, second edition.
This is a co-authored project in collaboration with leading scholars from the Universities of Birmingham, Sheffield and Warwick. It provides the only up-to-date core textbook on Japan's international relations and has been designed to assist in distance learning.
Japan and the G7/8, 1975 to 2002, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004
This is a single-authored book based on extensive research conducted in Tokyo and Okinawa from October 2002 to September 2003 whilst visiting Hosei University as a guest researcher.
Japan and United Nations Peacekeeping: New Pressures, New Responses, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
This is a single-authored book based on extensive research undertaken originally for my Ph.D. dissertation.
Hugo Dobson and Glenn D. Hook (eds), Japan and Britain in the Contemporary World: Responses to Common Issues (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003)
This is a collection of papers presented at an international conference held in the UK in September 2001 by some of the leading social scientists in the UK, Europe and Japan.
The other strand of my research deals with images of Japan's international relations. To this end, I have published an article that focuses on Japanese postage stamps entitled 'Japanese Postage Stamps: Propaganda and Decision-making' in Japan Forum. I also organised a conference that explored East Asian postage stamps as socio-political artefacts in August 2004 and resulted in a special edition of the journal East Asia: An International Quarterly published in the summer of 2005. In addition, I have also explored depictions of Japan in the American animated television series The Simpsons and published my conclusions in The Journal of Popular Culture. I am also interested in cinema and am beginning to explore depictions of Japan's relations with the world on the silver screen.
| Research SupervisionI have jointly supervised Ph.D theses on ASEAN's approaches to conflict resolution, Japanese approaches to humanitarianism, Japan’s regional institution-building initiatives and China’s ODA and would welcome the opportunity to supervise research students working in the area of the international relations and international political economy of the East Asian region.
| List of Major Publications - BooksKosuge Nobuko and Hugo Dobson (eds) Japan and Britain at War and Peace (Routledge, 2009).
Glenn D. Hook and Hugo Dobson (eds) Global Governance and Japan: The Institutional Architecture (RoutledgeCurzon, 2007).
The Group of 7/8 (Routledge, 2007).
Glenn Hook, Julie Gilson, Christopher Hughes and Hugo Dobson, Japan's International Relations: Politics, Economics and Security (Routledge, 2005, second edition).
Japan and the G7/8, 1975 to 2002 (RoutledgeCurzon, 2004).
Hugo Dobson and Glenn D. Hook (eds), Japan and Britain in the Contemporary World: Responses to Common Issues (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).
Japan and United Nations Peacekeeping: New Pressures, New Responses (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).
| Journal Articles 'Mister Sparkle meets the Japanese Yakuza: Depictions of Japan in The Simpsons', The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2006, pp. 44-64.
’The Stamp of Approval: Decision-making Processes and Policies in Japan and the UK’, East Asia: An International Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2005, pp. 56-76.
'Japan and the G8 Evian Summit: bilateralism, East Asianism and multilateralization', G8 Governance, No. 9, February 2004, pp. 1-17.
Glenn Hook, Julie Gilson, Christopher Hughes and Hugo Dobson, 'Japan and the East Asian Financial Crisis: Patterns, Motivations and Instrumentalisation of Japanese Regional Economic Diplomacy', European Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2002, pp. 177-197.
'Japanese Postage Stamps: Propaganda and Decision-Making', Japan Forum, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2002, pp. 21-39.
'The Failure of the Tripartite Pact: Familiarity Breeding Contempt between Japan and Germany, 1940-1945', Japan Forum, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1999, pp. 179-190.
'Regional Approaches to Peacekeeping Activities: The Case of the ASEAN Regional Forum', International Peacekeeping, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1999, pp. 152-171.
'Regionalism and United Nations Peacekeeping: Developments and Prospects', ICCLP Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1998.
| Book Chapters(2008) ‘Leadership in Global Governance: Japan and China in the G8 and the UN’, in Christopher M. Dent (ed.) China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 181-202.
With Mori Yukako (2007) 'Teaching Excellence in Higher Education in Japan: An Evolving Agenda', in Alan Skelton (ed.) International Perspectives on Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: Improving Knowledge and Practice, London: Routledge, pp. 183-196.
(2007) ‘Global Governance and the G7/8’, in Glenn D. Hook and Hugo Dobson (eds) Global Governance and Japan: The Institutional Architecture, London: Routledge, pp. 23-39.
(2007) ‘Japan and the UK at the G8 Summit: Cooperation and Conflict at the Highest Level of Diplomacy’ in Philip Towle and Nobuko Margaret Kosuge (eds) Britain and Japan in the Twentieth Century: One Hundred Years of Trade and Prejudice, London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 152-165.
'Global Governance, the G7/8 summit and Japan', in Glenn D. Hook (ed.) Contested Governance in Japan, RoutledgeCurzon, 2005, pp. 17-35.
'Japan and the UK at the G8 Summit: Cooperation and Conflict at the Highest Level of Diplomacy' in Philip Towle and Nobuko Margaret Kosuge (eds) Britain and Japan in the Twentieth Century: One Hundred Years of Trade and Prejudice, London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 152-165.
'The Military in Government: From Coup d'Etat to Civilian Control', in Sekiguchi Masashi (ed.) ‘Government and Politics’ in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Oxford: EOLSS Publishers Co, 2002.
'Social Movements, Civil Society and Democracy in Japan', in Catarina Kinnvall and Kristina Jonsson (eds) Globalization and Democratization in Asia: The Construction of Identity, Routledge, 2002, pp. 131-148.
'Japan in the World: From Bilateralism to Multilateralism' in Patrick Heenan (ed.), The Japan Handbook, London, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998, pp. 260-270.
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