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Dr. Christian Wirth

Research Fellow

Short CV

  • Since 2018: Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, Hamburg

  • 2017: University Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University, Leiden/Den Haag

  • 2016: Visiting Associate Professor, School of Law, Tohoku University, Sendai

  • 2013: Visiting Scholar, Asiatic Research Institute (ARI), Korea University, Seoul

  • 2012 - 2015: Research Fellow, Griffith University Asia Institute, Brisbane

  • 2011/2012: Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Tokyo

  • 2012: Research Associate, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo

  • 2008 - 2011: Research Assistant, Global Institute of Asian Regional Integration (GIARI), Waseda University, Tokyo

  • 2002 - 2006 Federal Government of Switzerland

  • Education: Ph.D. in International Studies, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo; Master of International Affairs, Department of International Relations, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra; lic. iur. (Master of Law) University of St. Gallen (HSG); General Staff Officer of the Swiss Armed Forces; Chinese language studies at the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in Taipei, and at Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Current Research

  • Traditional and Non-traditional (Critical) Security in East Asia and the Pacific

  • Maritime Security Politics and Ocean Governance in East Asia

  • Social and Political Change / Politics of Identity and Legitimacy in Northeast Asia

  • Political Geography, Historical Sociology

Countries and Regions

  • China

  • Japan

  • Korea

  • East Asia

  • Australia

Research Programme

Publications

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Projects

01/01/2021 - 31/12/2023

Transforming Orders: How ‘Indo-Pacific’ Geopolitics Reconstruct Maritime Space and Alter the Law of the Sea’s Territorial Sovereignty and Freedom of the Seas Norms

Maritime territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas and confrontations between China and the United States over the freedom of navigation have put questions of maritime governance high on the political agenda. This research project places Indo-Pacific maritime politics in a broader context and analyses how discourses and practices in China, India, the US, Japan and Australia alter (perceptions of) international order(s) and of the international law of the sea. DFG, 2021-2023
01/01/2017 - 01/12/2019

Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change and State Transformation: Japan in the Global Context

While East Asia’s and especially China’s economic growth has become a major driving force of global change, developed countries struggle to readjust their social, economic and political institutions to the challenges of financial crises, shrinking populations, and the rising demand for and costs of social welfare. As an economically and technologically highly advanced society, Japan finds itself at the intersection and forefront of these regional and global changes. GIGA, Tohoku University Forum for Creativity, 2017-2019