James Hughes

James Hughes

Keywords : Genocide Conflict Management democratisation and state-building insurgency and counterinsurgency national and ethnic conflict and civil war peace processes political violence and terrorism transitional justice reconciliation and reconstruction

Country : United Kingdom

Organization : London School of Economics and Political Science

Department : Department of Government

ResearchGate profile : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Hughes14

Biography :

Professor James Hughes  

Department

Position held

Chair in Comparative Politics, Chair of the Departmental Research Committee, Convenor of the Conflict Studies Programme, Director of the Conflict Research Group

 

Non LSE positions held

International Advisory Board of the European Centre for Minority Issues

Member

 

Experience keywords:

conflict managementdemocratisation and state-buildinggenocide; insurgency and counterinsurgency; national and ethnic conflict and civil war; peace processes; political violence and terrorism; transitional justice reconciliation and reconstruction

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Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Consultancy

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Chechnya and the Caucasus; Northern Ireland; Russia and Eastern Europe; Western Balkans

Languages:

French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]; Russian [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; Spanish [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream press; Radio; TV
 

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6898

LSE email:

j.hughes@lse.ac.uk

Publications

2017

Hughes, James (2017) Understanding Terrorism. What can the Arts and Social Science learn from each other? LSE Department of Government Blog (20 Jun 2017) Blog entry

Hughes, James (2017) The DUP’s extremist links make it unfit to join a Conservative allianceDemocratic Audit UK (19 Jun 2017) blog

Ahmadov, Anar and Hughes, James (2017) Ideology and civilian victimization in civil war LSE Conflict Research Group Working Paper, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Hughes, James (2017) Agency versus structure in reconciliation Ethnic and Racial Studies. ISSN 0141-9870 (In Press)

Hughes, James (2017) Federalism in Eastern Europe during and after Communism In: Fagan, Adam and Kopecký, Petr, (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of East European Politics. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9781138919754

2016

Hughes, James (2016) Genocide In: Cordell, Karl and Wolff, Stefan, (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 119-137. ISBN 9781138847736

Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn (2016) Power ideas and conflict: ideology, linkage and leverage in Crimea and Chechnya East European Politics. ISSN 2159-9165

2014

Hughes, James (2014) Reconstruction without reconciliation: is Northern Ireland a "model"? In: Kissane, Bill, (ed.) After Civil War: Division, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Contemporary Europe. National and ethnic conflict in the 21st century. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, USA, 245-272. ISBN 9780812246520

Hughes, James (2014) The events of recent days mean that Russia now holds all the cards over the secession of Crimea from Ukraine LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog (3 Mar 2014) Blog entry

Hughes, James (2014) Despite talk of an ‘off ramp’ from the crisis, Crimea is already lost to Russia: Kyiv’s priority should be accommodating its Russophone citizens in Eastern Ukraine LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog (14 Mar 2014) Blog entry

2013

Hughes, James (2013) Is the Northern Ireland peace process flagging? British Politics and Policy at LSE (30 Jan 2013) Blog entry

Hughes, James (2013) The evidence suggests that the conflict in Chechnya was not a major factor in the motivation of the Boston bombers LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog (24 Apr 2013) Blog entry

Hughes, James (2013) State violence in the origins of nationalism: British counterinsurgency and the rebirth of Irish nationalism, 1969-1972 In: Hall, John A. and Malesevic, Sinisa, (eds.) Nationalism and War. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 97-123. ISBN 9781107034754

Hughes, James (2013) Russia and the secession of Kosovo: power, norms and the failure of multilateralism Europe-Asia Studies, 66 (5). 992-1016. ISSN 0966-8136

2012

Hughes, James (2012) The Russo-Chechen conflict In: Gill, Graeme and Young, James, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 232-248. ISBN 9780415576277

Hughes, James (2012) Bloody Sunday is almost universally recognised as ‘unjustified and unjustifiable’. But lessons must be drawn for peace in Northern Ireland, and for counterinsurgency more generally British Politics and Policy at LSE (30 Jan 2012) Blog entry

Hughes, James (2010) Genocide and ethnic conflict In: Cordell, Karl and Wolff, Stefan, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict. Routledge. ISBN 9780415476256

Hughes, James (2010) How war makes jihad: the transformation of nationalism into jihad in Chechnya In: Kardas, Tuncay and Jansen, Stig Harle and Mesoy, Atle, (eds.) The Borders of Islam: Exploring Samuel Huntingdon's Faultlines, From Al-Andalus to Virtual Ummah. Columbia University Press, New York, USA, 165-180. ISBN 9780231154222

2009

Hughes, James (2009) EU conflict management - special issue, edited by J. Hughes Ethnopolitics, 8 (3-4). 275-420. ISSN 1744-9057

Hughes, James (2009) Introduction: the making of EU conflict management strategy - development through security Ethnopolitics, 8 (3-4). 275-285. ISSN 1744-9057

Hughes, James (2009) EU conflict management policy: comparing the security-development model in the 'sui generis' cases of Northern Ireland and Kosovo. In: European Consortium for Political Research general conference, 10 - 12 September 2009, Potsdam, Germany

Hughes, James (2009) Paying for peace: comparing the EU's role in the conflicts in Northern Ireland and Kosovo Ethnopolitics, 84 (3 - 4). 275-285. ISSN 1744-9057

2008

Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn and Gordon, Claire E (2008) How deep is the wider Europe?: elites, europeanization, and euroscepticism in the CEECs In: Szczerbiak, Alex and Taggart, Paul, (eds.) Opposing Europe: the Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 181-207. ISBN 9780199258352

2007

Hughes, James (2007) The Chechnya conflict: freedom fighters or terrorists? Demokratizatsiya: the Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, 15 (3). 293-311. ISSN 1074-6846

Hughes, James (2007) Chechnya: from nationalism to Jihad. National and ethnic conflict in the 21st century University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, USA. ISBN 0812240138

2006

Hughes, James (2006) EU relations with Russia: partnership or asymmetric interdependency? In: Casarini, Nicola and Muzu, Costanza, (eds.) The Eu's Foreign Policy in an Evolving International System: the Road to Convergence. Palgrave studies in European Union politics. Palgrave, London, UK. ISBN 9781403996077

2005

Hughes, James (2005) The peace process in Chechnya In: Sakwa, Richard, (ed.) Chechnya: From the Past to the Future. Anthem Russian and Slavonic studies. Anthem Press, London, 265-288. ISBN 184331164X

Hughes, James (2005) 'Exit' in deeply divided societies: regimes of discrimination in Estonia and Latvia and the potential for Russophone migration Journal of Common Market Studies, 43 (4). 739-762. ISSN 0021-9886

2004

Sasse, Gwendolyn and Hughes, James (2004) Integration mit tiefgang? Regionalisierung in ungarn und polen Osteuropa, 54 (5-6). 180-194. ISSN 0030-6428

Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn and Gordon, Claire E (2004) Europeanization and regionalization in the EU's enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe: the myth of conditionalityPalgrave, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9781403939876

Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn and Gordon, Claire E (2004) Conditionality and compliance in the EU’s eastward enlargement: regional policy and the reform of sub-national governanceJournal of Common Market Studies, 42 (3). 523-551. ISSN 0021-9886

2003

Hughes, James (2003) Putin's power politics The Globe and Mail. ISSN 0319-0714

Keating, Michael and Hughes, James, eds (2003) The regional challenge in Central and Eastern Europe: territorial restructuring and European integration Regionalism & federalism, vol. 1. Peter Lang, Brussels, Belgium. ISBN 9789052011875

Hughes, James (2003) Stalin, Siberia and the crisis of the New Economic Policy Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, 81 (2nd). 2nd, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521380393

Hughes, James (2003) Regional convergence and divergence in an enlarged EU In: Keating, Michael and Hughes, James, (eds.) The Regional Challenge in Central and Eastern Europe: Territorial Restructuring and European Integration. Peter Lang, Brussels, Belgium, 183-192. ISBN 9780820466064

Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn (2003) Monitoring the monitors: EU enlargement conditionality and minority protection in the CEECs Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 1 (1). 1-36. ISSN 1617-5247

Hughes, James and John, Peter (2003) Local elites in Russia's transition: generational effects on adaptation and competition In: Steen, Anton and Gel'man, Vladimir, (eds.) Elites and Democratic Development in Russia. Routledge studies of societies in transition. Routledge, London, UK, 124-147. ISBN 9780415306980

Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn and Gordon, Claire E (2003) EU enlargement and power asymmetries: conditionality and the Commission's role in regionalisation in Central and Eastern Europe "One Europe or several?" programme, 49/03. Economic and Social Research Council, Swindon, UK.

Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn and Gordon, Claire E (2003) EU enlargement, Europeanisation and the dynamics of regionalisation in the CEECs In: Keating, Michael and Hughes, James, (eds.) The Regional Challenge in Central and Eastern Europe: Territorial Restructuring and European Integration. Regionalism & federalism (vol. 1). Peter Lang, Brussels, Belgium, 69-88. ISBN 9789052011875

Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn and Gordon, Claire E (2003) Dataset from the ESRC research project on "Elites and institutions in regional and local governance in Central and Eastern Europe 1999-2001" L213252030 (grant number). ESRC.

2002

Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn and Gordon, Claire E (2002) Saying 'maybe' to the 'return to Europe': elites and the political space for euroscepticism in Central and Eastern EuropeEuropean Union Politics, 3 (3). 327-355. ISSN 1465-1165

Hughes, James and John, Peter and Sasse, Gwendolyn (2002) From plan to network: urban elites and the postcommunist organizational state in Russia European Journal of Political Research, 41 (3). 395-420. ISSN 0304-4130

2001

Dowding, Keith and Hughes, James and Margetts, Helen, eds (2001) Challenges to democracyPalgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780333789827

Hughes, James (2001) From federalisation to recentralisation In: White, Stephen, (ed.) Developments in Russian Politics 5. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, 128-146. ISBN 9780822327707

Hughes, James (2001) Managing secession potential in the Russian federation Regional and Federal Studies, 11 (3). 36-68. ISSN 1359-7566

Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn, eds (2001) Ethnicity and territory in the former Soviet Union: regions in conflict Routledge series in federal studies. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780714652269

Hughes, James and John, Peter (2001) Local elites and transition in Russia: adaptation or competition? British Journal of Political Science, 31 (4). 673-686. ISSN 0007-1234

Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn (2001) Comparing regional and ethnic conflicts in post-Soviet transition states Regional and Federal Studies, 11 (3). 1-35. ISSN 1359-7566

Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn (2001) Conflict and accommodation in the former Soviet Union: the role of institutions and regimes Regional and Federal Studies, 11 (3). 220-240. ISSN 1359-7566

Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn and Gordon, Claire E (2001) Enlargement and regionalization: the Europeanization of local and regional governance in CEE states In: Wallace, Helen, (ed.) Interlocking Dimensions of European Integration. One Europe or several?. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 145-178. ISBN 9780333802960

Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn (2001) Comparing regional and ethnic conflicts in post-Soviet transition states In: Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn, (eds.) Ethnicity and Territory in the Former Soviet Union: Regions in Conflict. Routledge series in federal studies. Routledge, Southgate, 1-35. ISBN 9780714652269

Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn (2001) Conflict and accommodation in the former Soviet Union: the role of institutions and regimes In: Hughes, James and Sasse, Gwendolyn, (eds.) Ethnicity and Territory in the Former Soviet Union: Regions in Conflict. Routledge series in federal studies. Routledge, Southgate, UK, 220-240. ISBN 9780714652269

Hughes, James (2001) Chechnya: the causes of a protracted post-Soviet conflict Civil Wars, 4 (4). 11-48. ISSN 1743-968X

2000

Hughes, James (2000) Putin proves an enigma Sunday Business. ISSN 1362-1947

Hughes, James (2000) Putin's budget balancing act Sunday Business. ISSN 1362-1947

Hughes, James (2000) Putin takes up anti-west baton Sunday Business. ISSN 1362-1947

Hughes, James (2000) Transition models and democratisation in Russia In: Ross, C. and Bowker, M., (eds.) Russia After the Cold War. Longman, Essex, UK, 21-49. ISBN 9780582368156

1998

Hughes, James (1998) Los intelectuales franceses y el terror comunista Revista de Libros (17). ISSN 1137-2249

Hughes, James (1998) New and old elites in Novosibirsk The Tocqueville Review, XIX (1). 103-115. ISSN 1918-6649

Hughes, James (1998) Re-evaluating Stalin's peasant policy In: Pallot, Judith, (ed.) Transforming Peasants: Society, State and the Peasantry, 1861-1930. Selected papers from the Fifth World Congress for Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995. Macmillan Press Ltd, Basingstoke, UK, 238-257. ISBN 9780312213497

1997

Hughes, James (1997) Regionalism economique en Siberie, Russie: le governenment des provinces Le Nouveau Monde, 7 (4). 116-123. ISSN 0847-8112

Hughes, James (1997) Sub-national Élites and post-communist transformation in Russia: a reply to Kryshtanovskaya & White Europe-Asia Studies, 49 (6). 1017-1034. ISSN 0966-8136

1996

Hughes, James (1996) Russia's regions: Moscow's bilateral treaties add to confusion Transition, 2 (19). ISSN 1211-0205

Hughes, James (1996) Stalinism in a Russian province: a study of collectivization and dekulakization in Siberia Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780333657485

Hughes, James (1996) Patrimonialism and the Stalinist system: the case of S. I. Syrtsov Europe-Asia Studies, 48 (4). 551-568. ISSN 0966-8136

1994

Hughes, James (1994) Capturing the Russian peasantry: Stalinist grain procurement policy and the "Ural-Siberian method" Slavic Review, 53 (1). 76-103. ISSN 0037-6779

Hughes, James (1994) Regionalism in Russia: the rise and fall of Siberian agreement Europe-Asia Studies, 46 (7). 1133-1161. ISSN 0966-8136

Hughes, James (1994) The 'Americanization' of Russian politics: Russia's first television election, December 1993 Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 10 (2). 125-150. ISSN 1352-3279

1991

Hughes, James (1991) Stalin, Siberia and the crisis of the New Economic Policy Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (81). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780521380393

1989

Hughes, James (1989) The Irkutsk affair: Stalin, Siberian politics and the end Soviet Studies, 41 (2). 228-253. ISSN 0038-5859

 

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