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Christopher Hobson

Visiting Research Fellow

Person Type
Former Personnel
Institutes
UNU Centre UNU-IAS
Education
PhD, Political Science and International Relations, Australian National University
Education
MA, International Politics, The University of Melbourne

Christopher Hobson was a Visiting Research Fellow at UNU-ISP.

Christopher Hobson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at UNU-ISP, where he is contributing to the Fukushima Global Communication Program. He currently has two main areas of research: (1) democracy and international relations; (2) human security and natural disasters, with a focus on the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident.

Dr Hobson previously worked as a Research Associate at the Institute for Sustainability and Peace, United Nations University (2010 – 2013); and as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University (2008 – 2010). He holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of International Politics from The University of Melbourne, and a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the Australian National University.

Research Interests

  • American foreign policy

  • Democracy and international politics

  • Drug trafficking

  • Human Security

  • International relations theory

  • Liberalism

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