Lindsay Black
Associate Professor
- Name
- Dr. L.O. Black
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2218
- l.black@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-1419-3857
Lindsay Black is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.
More information about Lindsay Black
Research
Fields of Interest
My research interests comprise Japan’s foreign policy, International Relations Theory, East Asian Regionalism, East Asian Security, Human Security and Development, Contemporary Maritime Affairs in East/Southeast Asia, and Sino-Japanese Relations. My most recent major publication is Disciplining Democracies – Human Insecurity in Japan-Myanmar Relations (Bristol University Press, 2023). My first book examined the role of the Japan Coast Guard and I have published numerous articles and book chapters on the International Relations of East Asia. I teach on International Relations and International Political Economy in the China, Korea, and Japan programs, as well as the BA and MA in International Relations.
Dissertation
PhD Sheffield University, UK. Dissertation title: “All at Sea? Japan’s response to the contemporary maritime security threats posed by infidels, pirates and barbarians” , Completed October 2006.
Supervision
I am willing to supervise MA students on projects concerning the International Relations of East Asia, particularly those focusing on Japan and Sino-Japan relations. I welcome PhD projects on Japan’s foreign policy concerning East Asian regionalism, East Asian security, Human Security and Development, Contemporary Maritime Affairs in East/Southeast Asia, and Sino-Japanese Relations.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2002 – 2006
PhD Sheffield University, UK. Dissertation title: “All at Sea? Japan’s response to the contemporary maritime security threats posed by infidels, pirates and barbarians”
2001 – 2002
MA (Distinction) Sheffield University, International Political Economy 1995 – 1999
BA (Hons) Durham University, Combined Honours in Japanese and History
Appointments
University Lecturer, International Relations of East Asia, Department of Chinese, Japanese and Korean Studies, Leiden University, 2007-present
Grants and Fellowships
Monbushō Scholarship, 2003–2005
Monbushō Scholarship, 1996–1997
Awards and Honors
Liam Holden Prize, Department of Politics, Sheffield University, 2002
Grants and Fellowships
- Taiwan Fellowship, Winter-Spring 2017
- Osaka Cross Appointment System, Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Autumn 2016
- JSPS-NWO Joint Seminar Grant, Summer 2013
- MEARC and LIAS research subsidy, Summer 2009
- Monbushō Scholarship, 2003–2005
- Monbushō Scholarship, 1996–1997
Associate Professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SAS China
- Black L.O. (2023), Constitutional revision under Prime Minister Abe: incremental change or radical shift?. In: Buszynski L. (Ed.), Handbook of Japanese security. Tokyo: MHM Limited.
- Black L.O. (2023), Disciplining democracies: human insecurity in Japan-Myanmar relations. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
- Black L.O. (2021), All at Sea? Japanese conceptions of regional order in response to the South China Sea disputes. In: Hwang Y. & Frettingham E. (Eds.), Maritime and territorial disputes in the South China Sea: faces of power and law in the age of China’s rise: Routledge.
- Black L.O. (2021), Conflict and cooperation in intra-regional relations in East Asia. In: Pieke F. & Iwabuchi K. (Eds.), Global East Asia: into the twenty-first century. Oakland: University of California Press.
- Hwang Y.-J. & Black L.O. (2020), Victimized state and visionary leader? Questioning China’s approach to human security in Africa, East Asia 37(1): 1-19.
- Black L.O. (2019), Evaluating Taiwan’s new southbound policy: going south or going sour?, Asian Survey 59(2): 246-271.
- Black L.O. & Hwang Y. (2019), Critical Human Security Studies (CHSS): Empowering the Subaltern?, Journal of Human Security Studies 8(1): 1-19.
- Black L.O. & Hwang Y. (2019), Empowering the subaltern? Critical approaches to Japan’s human security policy in Myanmar, Journal of Human Security Studies 8(1): 1-19.
- Black L.O. (2018), 'Private Sector Diplomacy' in Sino-Japanese Relations. In: Sakai H. & Sato Y. (Eds.), Re-rising Japan - Its Strategic Power in International Relations. Asian Pacific Studies. New York: Peter Lang. 201-222.
- Black L.O. (2017), Japan’s Response to Piracy in Southeast Asia – 10 years on. In: Biggs T. & Liss C. (Eds.), Piracy in Southeast Asia – Trends, Hot Spots and Responses.. London and New York: Routledge. 57-77.
- Black L.O. (2017), Japan’s Aspirations for Regional Leadership – Is the Goose Finally Cooked?, Japanese Studies 37(2): 151-170.
- Black L.O. (2014), Japan's Maritime Security Strategy: The Japan Coast Guard's Response to Maritime Outlaws in International Society. Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Black L.O. (2014), Japan's Maritime Security Strategy: The Japan Coast Guard and Maritime Outlaws. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
- Hwang Y. & Black L.O. (2014), Securitizing Threats to Human Beings: Self-identity in China’s Conceptions of Human Security. In: Chau D.C. & Kane T.M. (Eds.), China and International Security: History, Strategy, and 21st Century Policy. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
- Black L.O. (2013), Bridging between Myanmar and international society – Japan’s self-identity and kakehashi policy, The Pacific Review 26(4): 1-25.
- Black L.O. & Hwang Yih-Jye (2012), China and Japan’s quest for Great Power status – norm entrepreneurship in anti-piracy responses, International Relations 26(4): 431-452.
- Black L.O. (2012), Debating Japan’s intervention to tackle piracy in the Gulf of Aden: beyond mainstream paradigms, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 12: 259-285.
- Black L.O. (2011), Navigating the boundaries of the interstate society: Japan’s response to piracy in Southeast Asia. In: Hook G.D. & Takeda H. (Eds.), Decoding Boundaries in Postwar Japan: The Koizumi Administration and Beyond. London: Routledge.
- Hwang Yih-Jye & Black L.O. (2010), East Asian Approaches to Human Security – The Concept and Practice of Human Security in Japan and China’s International Relations. Nagasaki Nobuko, Kent Pauline, Shimizu Kosuke, Sato Shiro & Demachi Kazue (Eds.), Conflict Resolution in the Afrasian Context: Examining More Inclusive Approaches. . Kyoto, Japan: Afrasian Centre for Peace and Development Studies, Ryukoku University. 77-94.
- Black L.O. & Hwang Yih-Jye (2010), Soft Power Paths to Great Power Status: Human Security in Japan and China’s Approaches to Tackling Piracy in Southeast Asia and East Africa. Nagasaki Nobuko, Kent Pauline, Shimizu Kosuke, Sato Shiro & Demachi Kazue (Eds.), Conflict Resolution in the Afrasian Context: Examining More Inclusive Approaches. . Kyoto and Shiga: Afrasian Centre for Peace and Development Studies, Ryukoku University. 95-110.