Paul Bacon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3879589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Bacon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Bacon |
| SIGNATURE | BACON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Waseda University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9425-9491 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Navigating the Indo‐Pacific
More than four years after the EU released its Indo‐Pacific Strategy (in April 2021), the Council of the EU provided fresh ‘Conclusions’ (in October 2025) stating that the EU should ‘further intensify its strategic focus, presence, visibility and actions in the Indo‐Pacific’. These conclusions were issued against a dramatically altered geopolitical backdrop, including the onset of the Russia–Ukraine War, worsening Sino‐American relations and the …
The Indo-Pacific as a macrosecuritized constellation
Examining EU action and actorness through external perceptions
Three Decades on
This paper uses Hill's seminal ‘Capability–Expectations Gap’ framework (CEG) to analyse EU capabilities and expectations of the EU, from the perspectives of four key Asia‐Pacific states, China, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea. Intensive analysis of domestic print media shows that all four states have low perceptions of EU capability, particularly EU ability to reach agreement on common action. Indonesia and South Korea also have low overall expe…
Diffusing the Abolitionist Norm in Japan
This article uses Börzel and Risse's norm diffusion framework to conceptualize and evaluate the EU's ‘death penalty diplomacy’ in Japan. Despite the ‘exceptional’ nature of Japanese politics with regard to the death penalty the EU has enjoyed numerous successes in its attempts to diffuse the abolitionist norm within Japan. These successes have occurred through both direct and indirect methods of norm diffusion, and through socialization, persuasi…
Nato Global Perceptions – Views from the Asia-Pacific Region
In a world characterized by shifts in global power, NATO’s partnerships – in Europe as well as elsewhere – are critical for the organization. Yet the question of how the Alliance’s global partners perceive NATO in the context of cooperative security, collective defence, and crisis management – including NATO’s goals, operational capacity, functional capability, and influence – remains impressionistic and under-addressed. This paper launches discu…
Nato-Japan Relations
The article uses Strategic Narrative Theory to explain how NATO has successfully communicated narratives of “natural partnership” and cooperative security to Japan. Japan strongly perceives NATO to be an embodiment and guarantor of global norms and international law. NATO and Japanese security commentators make a clear and consistent linkage between Russian and Chinese threats to international law respectively, as part of an extended deterrence s…
Human Security and Japan's Triple Disaster
"This book applies the concept of human security to the specific case of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident that struck Japan on 11 March 2011, which has come to be known as Japan's 'triple disaster'. This left more than 15,000 people dead, displaced more than 300,000, and was the most expensive natural disaster in recorded history. This volume illustrates the different forms of human insecurity that appeared and were exacerbated, as we…
Communicating with patients of South Asian origin
Rheumatoid arthritis is a common chronic disease associated with significant morbidity and mortality. As with all chronic conditions, active participation by the patient, in areas ranging from accepting the diagnosis and its treatment to the implementation of coping strategies, is essential for effective management. Involving any patients in these process can be difficult; however patients of South Asian origin can present particular challenges. …
Governance, Democracy, Consolidation and the ‘End of Transition
The notion of governance: a multi-level phenomenonThere is a substantial literature on governance, but little agreement on precisely what it means, as a result of which the term is often used in different ways. A sophisticated and flexible formulation is offered by The Commission on Global Governance, which defines governance as ‘the sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs. It is a contin…
IR Studies East and West
Mainstream International Relations teaching and scholarship is often argued to be social scientific and therefore able to generate propositions about international life that have general (even universal) explanatory value. However, the methods and research questions of IR can in part be explained by the nature of the national academies in which they develop and by a range of national and regional sociological and political circumstances. Thus, fo…
Settled norms? A critical evaluation of the international theory of Mervyn frost
(1996). Settled norms? A critical evaluation of the international theory of Mervyn frost. Global Society: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 279-301
Textes français
Three Decades on
This paper uses Hill's seminal ‘Capability–Expectations Gap’ framework (CEG) to analyse EU capabilities and expectations of the EU, from the perspectives of four key Asia‐Pacific states, China, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea. Intensive analysis of domestic print media shows that all four states have low perceptions of EU capability, particularly EU ability to reach agreement on common action. Indonesia and South Korea also have low overall expe…
Diffusing the Abolitionist Norm in Japan
This article uses Börzel and Risse's norm diffusion framework to conceptualize and evaluate the EU's ‘death penalty diplomacy’ in Japan. Despite the ‘exceptional’ nature of Japanese politics with regard to the death penalty the EU has enjoyed numerous successes in its attempts to diffuse the abolitionist norm within Japan. These successes have occurred through both direct and indirect methods of norm diffusion, and through socialization, persuasi…
Nato-Japan Relations
The article uses Strategic Narrative Theory to explain how NATO has successfully communicated narratives of “natural partnership” and cooperative security to Japan. Japan strongly perceives NATO to be an embodiment and guarantor of global norms and international law. NATO and Japanese security commentators make a clear and consistent linkage between Russian and Chinese threats to international law respectively, as part of an extended deterrence s…
The Indo-Pacific as a macrosecuritized constellation
Examining EU action and actorness through external perceptions
Governance, Democracy, Consolidation and the ‘End of Transition
The notion of governance: a multi-level phenomenonThere is a substantial literature on governance, but little agreement on precisely what it means, as a result of which the term is often used in different ways. A sophisticated and flexible formulation is offered by The Commission on Global Governance, which defines governance as ‘the sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs. It is a contin…
Textes français
Settled norms? A critical evaluation of the international theory of Mervyn frost
(1996). Settled norms? A critical evaluation of the international theory of Mervyn frost. Global Society: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 279-301
IR Studies East and West
Mainstream International Relations teaching and scholarship is often argued to be social scientific and therefore able to generate propositions about international life that have general (even universal) explanatory value. However, the methods and research questions of IR can in part be explained by the nature of the national academies in which they develop and by a range of national and regional sociological and political circumstances. Thus, fo…
Governance, Democracy, Consolidation and the ‘End of Transition
The notion of governance: a multi-level phenomenonThere is a substantial literature on governance, but little agreement on precisely what it means, as a result of which the term is often used in different ways. A sophisticated and flexible formulation is offered by The Commission on Global Governance, which defines governance as ‘the sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs. It is a contin…
Communicating with patients of South Asian origin
Rheumatoid arthritis is a common chronic disease associated with significant morbidity and mortality. As with all chronic conditions, active participation by the patient, in areas ranging from accepting the diagnosis and its treatment to the implementation of coping strategies, is essential for effective management. Involving any patients in these process can be difficult; however patients of South Asian origin can present particular challenges. …
Human Security and Japan's Triple Disaster
"This book applies the concept of human security to the specific case of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident that struck Japan on 11 March 2011, which has come to be known as Japan's 'triple disaster'. This left more than 15,000 people dead, displaced more than 300,000, and was the most expensive natural disaster in recorded history. This volume illustrates the different forms of human insecurity that appeared and were exacerbated, as we…
Nato Global Perceptions – Views from the Asia-Pacific Region
In a world characterized by shifts in global power, NATO’s partnerships – in Europe as well as elsewhere – are critical for the organization. Yet the question of how the Alliance’s global partners perceive NATO in the context of cooperative security, collective defence, and crisis management – including NATO’s goals, operational capacity, functional capability, and influence – remains impressionistic and under-addressed. This paper launches discu…
Nato-Japan Relations
The article uses Strategic Narrative Theory to explain how NATO has successfully communicated narratives of “natural partnership” and cooperative security to Japan. Japan strongly perceives NATO to be an embodiment and guarantor of global norms and international law. NATO and Japanese security commentators make a clear and consistent linkage between Russian and Chinese threats to international law respectively, as part of an extended deterrence s…
Diffusing the Abolitionist Norm in Japan
This article uses Börzel and Risse's norm diffusion framework to conceptualize and evaluate the EU's ‘death penalty diplomacy’ in Japan. Despite the ‘exceptional’ nature of Japanese politics with regard to the death penalty the EU has enjoyed numerous successes in its attempts to diffuse the abolitionist norm within Japan. These successes have occurred through both direct and indirect methods of norm diffusion, and through socialization, persuasi…
Three Decades on
This paper uses Hill's seminal ‘Capability–Expectations Gap’ framework (CEG) to analyse EU capabilities and expectations of the EU, from the perspectives of four key Asia‐Pacific states, China, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea. Intensive analysis of domestic print media shows that all four states have low perceptions of EU capability, particularly EU ability to reach agreement on common action. Indonesia and South Korea also have low overall expe…
Examining EU action and actorness through external perceptions
The Indo-Pacific as a macrosecuritized constellation
Navigating the Indo‐Pacific
More than four years after the EU released its Indo‐Pacific Strategy (in April 2021), the Council of the EU provided fresh ‘Conclusions’ (in October 2025) stating that the EU should ‘further intensify its strategic focus, presence, visibility and actions in the Indo‐Pacific’. These conclusions were issued against a dramatically altered geopolitical backdrop, including the onset of the Russia–Ukraine War, worsening Sino‐American relations and the …
Political science (10 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · International Development and Aid (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · China (3 works) · Geography (3 works)