Faculty

Christopher Lamont

Department of International Relations

Assistant Dean of E-Track

Professor

Email: clamont@tiu.ac.jp
Last updated: March 8, 2024 3:30 pm

⬛ Education

2008 Ph.D. - Politics, University of Glasgow
2005 M.A. - International and European Politics, University of Edinburgh
2002 B.A. - International Studies, University of Mississippi

⬛ Teaching and Research Interests

International Relations, Human Rights, Transitional Justice, Research Design & Methods.

⬛ Academic Appointments

2023 - Present Professor, Tokyo International University
2022 - Present Visiting Researcher, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo
2018 Associate Professor, Tokyo International University
2018 Visiting Professor, Kobe University
2015 Specially Appointed Professor, Osaka University
2013 Visiting Lecturer, Osaka University
2011-2018 Assistant Professor, University of Groningen

⬛ Fellowships & Grants

2022-2025 Co-Investigator: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Transport Security: Developments and Issues in the Indo-Pacific Region, grant number: 22H00814
2016 U.S. Department of State, Research Capacity Building in Southern Iraq.
2012-2013 Dutch Foreign Ministry, MATRA-South Grant.
2013 U.S. Department of State, Libya Transitional Justice Expert Consultancy.
2012 American Institute for Maghrib Studies.
2010 IREX Short-Term Travel Grant.
2010 Fulbright Scholarship.

⬛ Selected Publications/Conference Papers

Mapping Global Justice: Perspectives, Cases and Practice (co-authored with Arnaud Kurze, New York: Routledge, 2022).
An Alliance Renewed? Future Proofing US-Japan Security Relations (co-edited with Jeffrey Ordaniel) Issues & Insights, vol. 22 (Honolulu, HI: Pacific Forum International, 2022).
โ€œIntroducing Justicecraft: Political Change Across Space and Time,โ€ Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS), (co-authored with Lauren Balasco, Bea Ciordia, Eliza Garnsey, Sarine Karajerjian, Arnaud Kurze, Nomzamo Ntombela, and Mariam Salehi), vol. 3, issue 1, (2022): 51-108.
โ€œThe Great Unraveling: Emerging Technologies and the Future of International Civil Aviationโ€ ROLES Review, vol. 2 (2022): 39-50.
Research Methods in International Relations, 2nd edition (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2022).
โ€œBreaking the Transitional Justice Machine: Exploring Spatiality, Space Travel, and Inbetween Spaces in Research Practice,โ€ Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS), (co-authored with Arnaud Kurze) vol. 2, issue 1 (2021): 155-178.
โ€œJapan-MENA Relations: Understanding Japanโ€™s Strategic Priorities,โ€ Med Dialogue, no. 37, (2021): 1-8.
โ€œJapanโ€™s Evolving Ties with the Middle East,โ€ Asia Society Policy Institute, July 28th, 2020.
Research Methods in Politics and International Relations (Co-authored with Mieczysล‚aw P. Boduszyล„ski, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, March 2020).
Critical Spaces in Transitional Justice (Co-edited with Arnuad Kurze, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2019).
โ€œThe Ministerialization of Transitional Justiceโ€ Human Rights Review, (co-authored with Joanna Quinn, Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm) Vol. 20, No. 1, (2019): 103-122.
โ€œThe Scope and Boundaries of Transitional Justice in the Arab Springโ€ in Transitional Justice in the Middle East and North Africa (ed. Chandra Lekha Sriram, New York: Hurst & Company, 2017) 83-100.
Research Methods in International Relations (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2015).
Non-Western Visions of Democratization: Imagining Democracy after the Arab Spring (Co-edited with Jan van der Harst, and Frank Gaensmantel, New York, Routledge/Ashgate, 2015).
Humanitarian Action: Global, Regional and Domestic Legal Responses to Local Challenges (co-edited with Andrej Zwitter, Hans-Joachim Heintze, and Joost Herman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
International Criminal Justice and the Politics of Compliance (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010).

⬛ Institute for International Strategy

http://www.tiu.ac.jp/iis/members/lamont.html

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