Prof. Glenn D. Hook

BA, MA (British Columbia), LLD (Chuo)

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    Email: g.hook@shef.ac.uk

      Current Research Interests

      Glenn Hook’s research interests are in the area of the international relations of contemporary Japan, particular in relation to East Asia, as well as in security and risk in East Asia.
        His work explores Japan’s role in the restructuring of the East Asian political economy and spatial scales of order at the regional, subregional and microregional levels. His work details the role of both state and nonstate actors in the political, economic and security dimensions of regional relations and how new orders and sites of governance emerge in the process of global and regional transformations.
          A continuing interest remains Japanese defence and security policy. His research has challenged the realist approach dominant in the field by drawing attention to the domestic constraints imposed on the policy-making process, examining issues of structure, agency and particularly norms in determining security policy.
            The role of the Japanese state in mediating risk is a more recent interest. This has led to collaborative work analysing the way the state mediates both internal and external risks and how this impacts on the security of the citizen.

              Research Supervision

              Glenn Hook has supervised nearly twenty Ph.D. theses on a range of topics in Japanese politics, international relations and international political economy, many of which have been revised and published in the Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge book series. These include: The Institutionalisation of Political Dialogue Between Japan and the European Union: Rethinking Cooperation in a Post-Cold War World. Japanese Economic Power and Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era: A Case Study of Japan-North Korean Security Relations. Japan and United Nations Peacekeeping: From Foreign Policy Formulation in the Post -Cold War World. The Political Economy of Financial Globalisation: Does Japan's 'Big Bang' Herald Convergence? Japan’s Middle East Security Policy: International Relations theory and Japanese policy-making
                He welcomes applications to undertake theses on most social, political, economic and security aspects of Japan's contemporary international relations and is able to consider topics on Japanese domestic politics.

                  Selected Major Publications

                  Global Governance and Japan: the institutional architecture (coeditor), Routledge, 2007.
                    Japan’s International Relations (coauthor), Routledge, 2005 (second edition).
                      Contested Governance in Japan: Sites and Issues (editor, 2005, RoutledgeCurzon).
                        Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjectivity (co-editor), London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
                          Microregionalism and World Order (co-editor), Basingstoke, PalgraveMacmillan, 2002.
                            Japan's Contested Constitution: Documents and Analysis (co-author) London, Routledge, 2001.
                              The Political Economy of Japanese Globalization (co-editor) London, Routledge, 2001.
                                Ajia Taiheiyo no Chiiki Anzen Hosho (co-editor) Kyoto, Minerva, 1999.
                                  Subregionalism and World Order, (co-editor) Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1999.
                                    Japanese Business Management: Restructuring for Low Growth and Globalization, (co-editor) London, Routledge, 1998.
                                      Militarization and Demilitarization in Contemporary Japan, Routledge, 1996.

                                        Japanese for 'School of East Asian Studies'