Jim Hughes (academic) explained
| Jim Hughes |
| Birth Name: | James Raymond Hughes |
| Birth Date: | 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Workplaces: | Trinity College Dublin (1988-9), Keele University (1989-94), London School of Economics, 1994-present |
| Alma Mater: | B.A (Hons) Queen's University Belfast, 1977-82; PhD London School of Economics, 1982-7 |
| Thesis Title: | Bolsheviks and peasants in Siberia and the end of N.E.P.: a study of the grain crisis of 1927/28 |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/940324605 |
| Thesis Year: | 1987 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Professor Peter Reddaway, Professor Dominic Lieven |
| Main Interests: | Comparative politics
Democratisation of the former Soviet Union and the Balkans, Political Violence and Terrorism, Post-Conflict Reconciliation |
| Website: | http://personal.lse.ac.uk/HUGHESJ |
James Raymond Hughes[1] is professor of comparative politics at the London School of Economics (LSE). Hughes' research interests relate to political violence and terrorism, secession, national and ethnic conflict in the former Soviet Union, the Balkans, and Northern Ireland.[2]
Education
Hughes studied Political Science and Ancient History at Queen's University Belfast, and graduated with a BA (Hons) First-Class in 1982. He was awarded two university prizes. Subsequently, he was awarded a Department of Education Northern Ireland scholarship to study for a PhD at the LSE (1982-7), and was supervised first by Professor Peter Reddaway, and then by Professor Dominic Lieven. While at LSE, he studied Russian language at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. In 1985-6 he held a British Council Scholarship and was a student at Moscow State University, USSR, where he worked in Soviet archives.[2]
Selected publications
Books
- Ph.D. . Hughes . James . 1987 . Bolsheviks and peasants in Siberia and the end of N.E.P.: a study of the grain crisis of 1927/28 . . 940324605 .
- Book: Hughes, James . Stalin, Siberia, and the crisis of the New Economic Policy . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge New York . 1991 . 9780521380393 . Excerpt.
- Book: Hughes, James . Stalinism in a Russian province: a study of collectivization and dekulakization in Siberia . St. Martin's Press in association with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham . New York Basingstoke . 1996 . 9780333657485 .
- Book: Hughes . James . Dowding . Keith . Margetts . Helen . Keith Dowding . Helen Margetts . Challenges to democracy: ideas, involvement, and institutions . The Political Studies Association Yearbook 2000 . Palgrave . Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York . 2001 . 9780333789827 .
- Book: Hughes . James . Sasse . Gwendolyn . Gwendolyn Sasse . Ethnicity and territory in the former Soviet Union: regions in conflict . . London Portland, Oregon . 2002 . Cass series in regional and federal studies . 9780714682105 .
- Book: Hughes . James . Sasse . Gwendolyn . Gordon . Claire E. . Gwendolyn Sasse . Europeanization and regionalization in the EU's enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe: the myth of conditionality . . Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York . 2004 . Series: One Europe or several? . 9781403939876 .
- Book: Hughes, James . Chechnya: from nationalism to jihad . . Philadelphia . 2007 . National and ethnic conflict in the 21st century series . 9780812240139 .
- Book: Hughes . James . EU conflict management . . London . 2012 . 9780415814836 . [3]
Journal articles
- Hughes . James . Capturing the Russian peasantry: Stalinist grain procurement policy and the "Ural-Siberian Method" . . 53 . 1 . 76–103 . 10.2307/2500326 . 2500326 . Spring 1994 . 161585977 .
- Hughes . James . Quotas for women in elected legislatures: Do they really empower women? . . 15 . 3 . 293–311 . 2007 . 10.3200/DEMO.15.3.293-311 .
- Hughes . James . Russia and the secession of Kosovo: power, norms and the failure of multilateralism . Europe-Asia Studies . 65 . 5 . 992–1016 . 10.1080/09668136.2013.792448 . 2013 . 154632469 .
External links
Notes and References
- Ph.D. . Hughes . James . 1987 . Bolsheviks and peasants in Siberia and the end of N.E.P.: a study of the grain crisis of 1927/28 . . 940324605 .
- Web site: Professor James Hughes . lse.ac.uk . . 23 June 2015 .
- Web site: EU conflict management, edited by James Hughes . routledge.com . . 23 June 2015 .
