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  1. Unravelling military aggression: Ontological insecurity, great power narcissism, and Japan’s international relations, 1868–1971

    Article • Review of International Studies, October 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Linus Hagström

  2. Japan, the Ambiguous, and My Fragile, Complex and Evolving Self

    Article • Life Writing, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström

  3. Female Nationalist Activism in Japan: Truth-Telling Through Everyday Micro-Practices

    Article • Alternatives Global Local Political, September 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Linus Hagström

  4. Logics of Othering: Sweden as Other in the time of COVID-19

    Article • Cooperation and Conflict, July 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Linus Hagström

  5. Resentment, status dissatisfaction, and the emotional underpinnings of Japanese security policy

    Article • International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, June 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Linus Hagström

  6. Aikido and world politics: a practice theory for transcending the security dilemma

    Article • European Journal of International Relations, January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Linus Hagström

  7. Ontological (In)Security and Neoliberal Governmentality: Explaining Australia's China Emergency

    Article • Australian Journal of Politics & History, December 2021, Wiley

    Professor Linus Hagström

  8. The limitations of strategic narratives: The Sino-American struggle over the meaning of COVID-19

    Article • Contemporary Security Policy, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström

  9. Everyday Perspectives on Security and Insecurity in Japan: A Survey of Three Women’s Organizations

    Article • Social Science Japan Journal, July 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Linus Hagström

  10. Great Power Narcissism and Ontological (In)Security: The Narrative Mediation of Greatness and Weakness in International Politics

    Article • International Studies Quarterly, February 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Linus Hagström

  11. Disciplinary power: Text and body in the Swedish NATO debate

    Article • Cooperation and Conflict, October 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Linus Hagström

  12. Overcoming US-North Korean Enmity: Lessons from an Eclectic IR Approach

    Article • The International Spectator, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström

  13. Traversing the soft/hard power binary: the case of the Sino-Japanese territorial dispute

    Article • Review of International Studies, August 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Linus Hagström

  14. Becoming a Traitor

    Article • Life Writing, August 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström

  15. Narrative power: how storytelling shapes East Asian international politics

    Article • Cambridge Review of International Affairs, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström, Karl Gustafsson

  16. Long live pacifism! Narrative power and Japan’s pacifist model

    Article • Cambridge Review of International Affairs, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström, Karl Gustafsson

  17. China's “Politics of Harmony” and the Quest for Soft Power in International Politics

    Article • International Studies Review, May 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Linus Hagström

  18. Japan's pacifism is dead

    Article • Survival, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström, Karl Gustafsson

  19. How should we construct research puzzles?

    Article • European Political Science, July 2017, Nature

    Professor Linus Hagström

  20. Sanctions Reconsidered: the Path Forward with North Korea

    Article • The Washington Quarterly, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström

  21. Japan's "peace" discourse might actually entail remilitarization and increased tensions with China

    Article • Review of International Studies, June 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Linus Hagström

  22. Who wears it better? Japan and China compete for positive images on the political stage

    Article • Global Affairs, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström

  23. Japan has multiple national identities, each enabling or limiting Japan's foreign policies

    Article • The Pacific Review, November 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström

  24. How North Korea's abduction of Japanese citizens has changed Japan's identity

    Article • The Pacific Review, October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Ulv Hanssen, Professor Linus Hagström

  25. How did Japan become an "abnormal" country in world politics?

    Article • European Journal of International Relations, March 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Linus Hagström

  26. To improve students' grades, add a meta-reflection exercise to your course

    Article • Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström

  27. Is the clash over Senkaku/Diaoyu islands a sign of power shift between Japan and China?

    Article • The Chinese Journal of International Politics, August 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Linus Hagström

  28. Is Japan balancing again China's rise, or accommodating it?

    Article • Journal of East Asian Studies, May 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Linus Hagström

  29. Changing Power Relations in Northeast Asia

    Article • March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström

  30. Why and how has Japan's attitude and policy toward China changed in the past?

    Article • Pacific Affairs, December 2010, Pacific Affairs

    Professor Linus Hagström

  31. What is Japan's security policy under the Democratic Party of Japan?

    Article • Australian Journal Of International Affairs, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström

  32. Is Japan really remilitarizing?

    Article • Asian Security, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström

  33. Why do scholars keep treating Japan as abnormal even if it behaves "normally" in important issues?

    Article • Asian Survey, September 2009, University of California Press

    Professor Linus Hagström

  34. What "threats" are behind the changes in Japan's foreign security policy?

    Article • Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström

  35. Is the relationship between China and Japan as good as it seems?

    Article • International Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis, March 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor Linus Hagström

  36. Japan is not so unique!

    Article • European Journal of East Asian Studies, January 2008, Brill

    Professor Linus Hagström

  37. North Korea Policy

    Article • January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström

  38. What's at stake in Japan-North Korea relations?

    Article • Pacific Affairs, September 2006, Pacific Affairs

    Professor Linus Hagström

  39. Is Japan merely a sidekick of the United States? Think again.

    Article • Pacific Affairs, September 2006, Pacific Affairs

    Professor Linus Hagström

  40. Want better foreign policy analyses? Use the relational power approach.

    Article • European Journal of International Relations, September 2005, SAGE Publications

    Professor Linus Hagström

  41. Want better foreign policy analyses? Use the relational power approach.

    Article • Japanese Journal of Political Science, August 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Linus Hagström

  42. How Japan exercised "quiet power" over China in the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands in 1992

    Article • The Pacific Review, June 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström

  43. Japan's China Policy

    Article • March 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Linus Hagström