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Fintan Hoey recently published Satō, America and the Cold War, a research monograph on U.S.-Japanese diplomatic and security relations during the tenure of Satō Eisaku, Prime Minister of Japan, 1964-1972. This draws on recently released material from the Japanese Foreign Ministry Archive as well as US archival material and Satō’s diary and builds on Professor Hoey’s PhD dissertation which he completed at University College Dublin, Ireland in 2012. The book presents a more informed and nuanced account of US-Japanese security relations in this period and argues that Satō’s foreign policy was not motivated by a slavish adherence to Washington but from a realist appraisal of Japan’s security imperatives.

Professor Hoey’s research interests include Asian (particularly Japanese) history, nuclear proliferation, international relations, U.S.-Japanese relations, the Cold War in Asia and American diplomatic history. Further teaching interests include Australian history, modern Ireland and the concept of ‘Global Britishness’. He has held teaching appointments at Queen’s University Belfast and Maynooth University and research positions at Rikkyō University, Tokyo and the University of Kyoto.

2019-2020 Courses:

HIS 100	Western Civilization I: Ancient and Medieval	FALL 2019
This survey course is an introduction to the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of the west from the Neolithic to the voyages of discovery in the sixteenth century. Our knowledge and understanding of the past is contingent and contested. The course explores areas of contestation to give students a better understanding of the forces and events which shaped the ancient and medieval worlds and continue to shape the modern world. (It is recommended that HIS 100 be taken prior to HIS 101.)
HIS 199	Hiroshima: Japan's Nemesis and the World's Bomb	FALL 2019
On the morning of 6 August 1945 an entire city was almost entirely destroyed by an attack from a single plane. How humanity reached such a point of destruction and the ways people have dealt with this tragedy ever since are the focus of this course. Topics to be explored include Japan’s rapid modernization from the nineteenth century and its twentieth century military culture, scientific advances, the difficult decisions of wartime, popular memory and commemoration, Japan’s enduring ‘nuclear allergy’ and its effects on politics and popular culture, the prospect of imminent destruction throughout the Cold War and the continuing diplomatic standoffs regarding the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The course makes use of a variety of sources including texts, original documents, manga, films (including Japanese anime) and other media. Like all First Year Seminars, this course will cultivate the fundamental critical and academic skills necessary for succeeding at the university level.
HIS 271	History of Modern France	FALL 2019
From absolute monarchy to the Fifth Republic, from the Enlightenment to existentialism, France has been central to European affairs in revolution, war and peace. Paris itself has been called "capital of the nineteenth century" and pacemaker for many aspects of twentieth-century culture. This course analyzes the political, social, and cultural history of modern France with special attention to the tensions between the urban center and the rural periphery, the often violent struggles between tradition and modernization, and the European dimension of its identity and influence from the late-eighteenth century to the present.
HIS 101	Western Civilization II: Modern	SPRING 2020
This survey course is an introduction to the political, economic, social, and intellectual history of the west from the scientific revolution to the present. Our knowledge and understanding of the past is contingent and contested. The course explores areas of contestation to give students a better understanding of the forces and events which have shaped the modern world.
HIS 273	History of the United States	SPRING 2020
This course is an introduction to recent approaches to the political, economic, and cultural history of the United States from the eighteenth to the twenty first century. Its topics include the role of environment and space, as well as the interplay of religion, gender, ethnic relations, and immigration. It also discusses the changing role of the United States in the World from colonial times to the present.
HIS 275T	History of Modern Ireland: Union and Dis-union, 1798-1998	SPRING 2020
Ireland has undergone profound social, economic and political changes over the last two centuries. Its history has been largely defined, for better or worse, by its relationship with its larger neighbor, Britain. This course will critically examine the contours and effects of this often troubled relationship which can largely be defined as the struggle between union and dis-union, that is, either strengthening or severing the link with Britain. Going beyond these constitutional issues it will also examine wider social and cultural changes; the famine and its legacy, the land revolution of the late nineteenth century, emigration, the 'Celtic Tiger' economy and Ireland's delayed sexual revolution.

Publications:

Books

Satō, America and the Cold War. US-Japanese Relations, 1964-1972. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Journal Articles

‘Japan and Extended Deterrence. Security and Non-proliferation.’ Journal of Strategic Studies 39, no. 4. (2016): 484-501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2016.1168010.

‘The Nixon Doctrine and Nakasone Yasuhiro’s Unsuccessful Challenge to Japan’s Defense Policy, 1969-1971.’ The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 19, no. 1 (2012): 52-74. https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187656112X651308.

Book chapters

‘Non-Nuclear Japan? Satō, the NPT, and the US Nuclear Umbrella.’ In Negotiating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Origns of the nuclear order.Edited by Liviu Horovitz, Roland Popp, and Andreas Wenger. London: Routledge, 2017.

Book Reviews

‘Review of The Korean War: An international history by Wada Haruki’ International History Review. Published online 12 September 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2016.1227550

‘Review of Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security: From Pacifism to Realism? by Paul Midford’ International History Review 37, no. 5 (2015): 1104-1105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2015.1057971

Review of Historical Dictionary of United States-Japanese Relations by John Van Sant, Peter Mauch, and Yoneyuki Sugita. H-US-Japan, H-Net Reviews. August 2009. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=23063.

Awards and Honors:

Franklin University Switzerland, Excellence in Teaching Award, 2014

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Summer Institute on Nuclear Weapons History, 2013, selected participant

Guest Speaker, University of Winchester, 2012

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Diversity/International Outreach Fellowship 2009, 2010

Invited Lecturer, University of Copenhagen, 2010

UCD Seed Funding (Dissemination & Outputs) Award 2009, 2010

Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellow / Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Law and Politics, Rikkyō University, Tokyo, 2007-2008

Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Doctoral Scholarship. 2006-2010

Japanese Government MEXT Scholarship, University of Kyoto, 2003-2005