James Raymond Hughes is professor of comparative politics at the London School of Economics (LSE). Hughes' research interests relate to political violence and terrorism, secession, national and ethnic conflict in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans, and democratisation.
Hughes earned his BSc at Queen's University Belfast in 1982, and his PhD at the LSE (1982-7).
Hughes, James (1987). Bolsheviks and peasants in Siberia and the end of N.E.P.: a study of the grain crisis of 1927/28 (Ph.D. thesis). London School of Economics. OCLC 940324605.
Hughes, James (1991). Stalin, Siberia, and the crisis of the New Economic Policy. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521380393. Excerpt.
Hughes, James (1996). Stalinism in a Russian province: a study of collectivization and dekulakization in Siberia. New York Basingstoke: St. Martin's Press in association with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. ISBN 9780333657485.
Hughes, James; Dowding, Keith; Margetts, Helen (2001). Challenges to democracy: ideas, involvement, and institutions. The Political Studies Association Yearbook 2000. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave. ISBN 9780333789827.
Hughes, James; Sasse, Gwendolyn, eds. (2002). Ethnicity and territory in the former Soviet Union: regions in conflict. Cass series in regional and federal studies. London Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass. ISBN 9780714682105.
Hughes, James; Sasse, Gwendolyn; Gordon, Claire E. (2004). Europeanization and regionalization in the EU's enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe: the myth of conditionality. Series: One Europe or several?. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403939876.
Hughes, James (2007). Chechnya: from nationalism to jihad. National and ethnic conflict in the 21st century series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812240139.
Hughes, James, ed. (2012). EU conflict management. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415814836.
Hughes, James; Dowding, Keith; Margetts, Helen (2001), "Introduction", in Hughes, James; Dowding, Keith; Margetts, Helen, Challenges to democracy: ideas, involvement, and institutions, The Political Studies Association Yearbook 2000, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave, pp. xi–xvii, ISBN 9780333789827. Pdf.
Journal articles
Hughes, James (Spring 1994). "Capturing the Russian peasantry: Stalinist grain procurement policy and the "Ural-Siberian Method"". Slavic Review. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies via JSTOR. 53 (1): 76–103. JSTOR 2500326. doi:10.2307/2500326.
Hughes, James (2007). "Quotas for women in elected legislatures: Do they really empower women?" (pdf). Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization. Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University. 15 (3): 293–311.
Hughes, James (2013). "Russia and the secession of Kosovo: power, norms and the failure of multilateralism". Europe-Asia Studies, special issue: Self-determination after Kosovo. Taylor and Francis. 65 (5): 992–1016. doi:10.1080/09668136.2013.792448.
