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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.

2018-2019 Courses:

HIS 100	Western Civilization I: Ancient and Medieval	FALL 2018
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.
HIS 199	Hiroshima: Japan's Nemesis and the World's Bomb	FALL 2018
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.

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