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Christopher R. Hughes is Professor of International Relations at the LSE, where he teaches courses in the International Politics of the Asia Pacific, Chinese Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Analysis. He also served as Director of the Asia Research Centre at the LSE from 2002 to 2005. He has organised joint research projects with Fudan University, Renmin University, the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, and the Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies at Waseda University. He has also been a visiting fellow at Waseda, Aichi University (Nagoya), Lingnan University (Hong Kong) and Academic Sinica (Taiwan).

His books include Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism (Routledge 1997), China and the Internet: Politics of the Digital Leap Forward (edited with Gudrun Wacker, Routledge 2003) and Chinese Nationalism in the Global Era (Routledge 2006). He has also published various articles on the international politics of the Asia-Pacific, international relations theory and foreign policy in leading academic journals and currently working on a major research project on the development and role of militarism in China and Japan, the first stage of which appeared in ‘Militarism and the China Model: The Case of National Defense Education’, Journal of Contemporary China, 2017.

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