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College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences  ·  Department of Asian and International Studies

Dr  Brad  WILLIAMS 

BA (Asian Studies) Griffith; MA (Political Science) Seikei (Tokyo); PhD Monash

Assistant Professor

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Contact Information

Office: AC1-Y7621
Phone: (852)3442-7374
Fax: (852)3442-0180
Email: Brad.Williams@cityu.edu.hk
Web: Personal Homepage
AC1 : Academic 1
MMW : Mong Man Wai Building
TYB : To Yuen Building
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Research Interests

  • International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
  • Comparative Asian Politics
  • Japanese Politics

Teaching

  • Contemporary International Politics of the Asia-Pacific
  • State & Development in Northeast Asia
  • International Relations of Northeast Asia


Current Research Projects

  • Japanese Intelligence
  • Japan’s Territorial Disputes
  • Sino-Japanese relations


Publications (Selected)

  • Books
  • Japan in Decline: Fact or Fiction? Folkestone: Global Oriental, 2011, 240 pp, ISBN: 9781906876364 (edited with Purnendra Jain).
  • Resolving the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute: Hokkaido-Sakhalin Relations, Routledge, 2007, 223pp, ISBN: 9780415413213. (reviewed in Asian Studies Review, Pacific Affairs, Japanese Yearbook of International Law, Asian Journal of Social Science).
  • Japan, Australia and Asia-Pacific Security, Routledge, 2006, 198 pp, ISBN: 9780415381390 (edited with Andrew Newman, reviewed in Pacific Affairs).
  • Refereed Journal Articles
  • 'Japan's Evolving National Security Secrecy System: Catalysts and Obstacles', Pacific Affairs (forthcoming)
  • ‘Explaining the Absence of a Japanese Central Intelligence Agency: Alliance Politics, Sectionalism and Antimilitarism’, Journal of East Asian Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, Jan-Apr 2013, pp. 137-164.
  • ‘Dissent on Japan’s Northern Periphery: Nemuro, the Northern Territories and the Limits of Change in a “Bureaucrat’s Movement”’, Japanese Journal of Political Science, vol. 11, no. 2, August 2010, pp. 221-244.
  • ‘Explaining Divergent Responses to the North Korean Abductions Issue in Japan and South Korea’, Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 69, no. 2, May 2010, pp. 507-536 (with Erik Mobrand).
  • ‘Why Give? Japan’s Response to the Asian Tsunami Crisis’, Japan Forum, vol. 18, no. 3, November 2006, pp. 399-416.
  • ‘Federal-Regional Relations in Russia and the Northern Territories Dispute: The Rise and Demise of the “Sakhalin Factor”’, The Pacific Review, vol. 19, no. 3, September 2006, pp. 263-285.
  • ‘Parties of Power and Russian Politics: A Victory of the State over Civil Society?’ Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 53, no. 1, January/February 2006, pp. 3-14 (with Zoe Knox and Peter Lentini).
  • ‘The Proliferation Security Initiative: The Asia-Pacific Context’, The Nonproliferation Review, vol. 12, no. 2, July 2005, pp. 303-322 (with Andrew Newman).
  • ‘Sakhalin’s Governors and the South Kuril Islands: Factors behind Involvement in the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute’, ACTA Slavica Iaponica, no. 22, 2005, pp. 299-310.
  • ‘The Russo-Japanese Visa-less Exchange Program: Opportunities and Limits’, East Asia: An International Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 3, 2003, pp. 108-133.
  • ‘The Criminalisation of Russo-Japanese Border Trade: Causes and Consequences’, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 55, no. 5, July 2003, pp. 711-728.
  • ‘Japan’s Post-Cold War Russia Diplomacy’, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, June 1999, pp. 77-99.
  • ‘Russia and the Northern Territories’, Russian and Euro-Asian Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 8, August 1998, pp. 1-12.
  • Chapters in Edited Volumes
  • ‘Japan’s Demographic Crisis: Security Implications and Obstacles to Resolving an Issue Symptomatic of National Decline’, in Andrew Tan ed., East and Southeast Asia: International Relations and Security Perspectives, London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 267-278.
  • ‘Japan: Descending Asian Giant?’ in Purnendra Jain and Brad Williams eds., Japan in Decline: Fact or Fiction? Folkestone: Global Oriental, 2011, pp. xii-xxiv (with Purnendra Jain).
  • ‘Japan’s Education System: Problems and Prospects in the Post-Industrial Age’, in Purnendra Jain and Brad Williams eds., Japan in Decline: Fact or Fiction? Folkestone: Global Oriental, 2011, pp. 147-165 (with Shoko Yoneyama).
  • ‘Japan’s Arms Procurement after the Cold War’, in Andrew Tan ed., The Global Arms Trade, London: Routledge, 2010, pp. 78-90.
  • ‘The Challenges of Intelligence Oversight in a Normalising Japan’, in Daniel Baldino ed., Democratic Oversight of Intelligence Services, Melbourne: Federation Press, 2010, pp. 161-186.
  • ‘Australia-Japan Security Cooperation: The Proliferation Security Initiative’, in Brad Williams and Andrew Newman eds., Japan, Australia and Asia-Pacific Security, Routledge, 2006, pp. 107-126 (with Andrew Newman).
  • ‘The US and UN in Australia-Japan Defence and Security Cooperation’, in Brad Williams and Andrew Newman eds., Japan, Australia and Asia-Pacific Security, Routledge, 2006, pp. 1-8 (with Andrew Newman).
  • ‘Japan, North Korea and the War on Terror’, in Marika Vicziany, David Wright-Neville and Pete Lentini eds., Regional Security in the Asia-Pacific: 9/11 and After, London: Edward Elgar, 2004, pp. 230-247.