Topics
The following list shows the range of topics researched by recent SEAS postgraduate students and grouped according to the school's four research clusters.
Business, Political Economy and Development
| Name | Degree awarded | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Judith Cherry | 1999 | Korean Consumer Electronics Investment in Europe: A Case of Involuntary Internationalization? |
| Choo-hyup Kim | 2000 | The Saemaul Movement and Korean Rural Development: A Comparative Study of Government Policy in the 1970s and 1980s |
| Wei Zhang | 2000 | The Applicability of East Asian Pattern of Industry Policy to China-Comparative Study of Industrial Science and Technology Policies in East Asia |
| Yanbing Zhang | 2006 | Liberal and Socialist Visions in Post-Deng China: Neo-authoritarianism and Its Critics |
East Asian Identities and Cultures
| Name | Degree awarded | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Kathryn Allen | 2000 | Learning Strategies for Kanji and Reading Skills in UK Japanese Classrooms |
| Daniella Ferreira De Carvalho | 2000 | Nikkeijin: Lineage and Identity |
| James A. Foley | 2000 | Korea's Divided Families |
| Mark Irwin | 2006 | Mora Obstruent Allomorpgy In Sino-Japanese Morphemes In Final - /KI/ : A Case Of Lexical Diffusion In Modern Japanese |
| Sung Soo Kim | 1998 | An Examination of the Life and Legacy of a Korean Quaker, Ham Sokhon (1901-1989): Voice of the People and Pioneer of Religious Pluralism in Twentieth Century Korea |
| Seung-Hoon Shin | 2008 | State and Market in Korea: Host Country Barganing Power and FDI Policy |
Social Change and Transition in East Asia
| Name | Degree awarded | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Christopher Hood | 1997 | Nakasone Yasuhiro and Japanese Education Reform: A Revisionist View |
| Kuniko Ishiguro | 2008 | Generating Equal Employment Opportunities: The Work and Life of Female Managers in Japanese Companies |
| Peter Matanle | 2001 | A Study on the Nature of Capitalist Modernity in Contemporary Japan: Man and Company Under Restructuring and Globalisation |
| Beverley Yamamoto | 2000 | A Feminist Analysis of the Teenage Pregnancy "Problem" in Japan: Pushing the Limits of "Good Girl" Behaviour |
Regionalisation and Globalisation
| Name | Degree awarded | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Lindsay Black | 2006 | All at Sea? Japan's Response to the Contemporary Maritime Security Threats Posed by Infidels, Pirates and Barbarians |
| Hugo Dobson | 1998 | Japan and United Nations Peacekeeping: Foreign Policy Formulation in the Post-Cold War World |
| Julie Gilson | 1997 | The Institution of Political Dialogue Between Japan and the European Union |
| Shintaro Hamanaka | 2008 | Membership Politics: Japan's Regional Institution-Building Projects |
| Christopher Hughes | 1997 | Japanese Economic Power and Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era: A Case Study of Japan-North Korea Security Relations |
| Li Kai Hsiao | 2000 | Taiwan's Foreign Policy in the 1990s: The "Pre-Theory" Approach |
| Youngmi Kim | 2007 | Minority Coalition Government and Governability in South Korea: the Case of Kim Dau-jung Administration (1998-2003) |
| Jonathan Lewis | 1998 | Japanese Policymaking for International Big Science Projects |
| James Malcolm | 1999 | The Political Economy of Financial Globalisation: Does Japan's "Big-Bang" Herald Convergence? |
| Yukiko Miyagi | 2007 | Japan's Middle East Security Policy:International Relations Theory and Japanese policy-making |
| Shaohua Pan | 1999 | Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation and Regionalism in the World of Globalisation and Regionalisation - Theories and Practices in Development Policy Perspective |
| Bhubhindar Singh | 2007 | Crisis and Japanese Post-Cold War Security Policy |
| Key-young Son | 2005 | South Korean Identities in Strategies of Engagement with North Korea: A Case Study of President Kim Dae-Jing's Sunshine Policy |
| Utpal Vyas | 2006 | Soft Power in International Relations: Japan's State, Sub-State and Non-state Relations with China |