Rate My Professor Justin Hastings

Hastings' research focuses on the structure and behavior of clandestine state and non-state actors, including terrorists, maritime pirates, smugglers, organized criminals, insurgents, and nuclear weapons proliferators, primarily in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, as well as East Africa and general security issues. He has conducted research in South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. His work has been funded by the Australian Research Council, Korea Foundation, Australian government, United States federal government, United States-Indonesia Society, National Bureau for Asian Research, MacArthur Foundation, Science Applications International Corporation, and US National Science Foundation via the University of California’s Institute for Global Cooperation and Conflict. Key publications include the book A Most Enterprising Country: North Korea in the Global Economy (Cornell University Press, 2016), "Charting the Course of Uyghur Unrest?" (The China Quarterly, 2012), and "Understanding Maritime Piracy Syndicate Operations" (Security Studies, 2012). His scholarship has accumulated 1,280 citations with an h-index of 18 (Google Scholar).