Prof. Dr. Tom Hashimoto

Visiting professor at ISM

tomhas@faculty.ism.lt

Dr. Tom Hashimoto specialises in post-socialist financial centre development. His foci are financial institutional reforms, collective political will and socio-legal philosophy behind the transition. His most recent book Reviewing EU Accession is due to be published from Brill, Leiden/Boston, and his short commentaries on South-eastern Europe can be found in CE Financial Observer, published by the National Bank of Poland. He is a Lecturer in International Relations and Economics at Vistula University, holds a joint LL.M./MA in Economic Analysis of Law from Rotterdam-Hamburg-SGH, and received his DPhil in Financial Geography at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom.

Research areas

Financial centre development
Transition economics
Jurisprudence
Financial and economic reform

Teaching areas

Economics
International Relations
Jurisprudence
Economic and Political Geography

Publications

Hashimoto, T. (2009). Victory for european Albania: Democratic election as a step towards ‘Strong States’. European Perspectives, 1(1), 75-92.

Hashimoto, T. (2011). Introduction: EU-Russia relations and the international society theory. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 7(2), 155-158.

Hashimoto, T. (2013). Transition towards innovation-driven economies in the Western Balkans: A brief survey on graduate employability and job mismatches. European Perspectives, 5(1), 20-29.

Hashimoto, T. (2021). 30 Years of transition in Europe: looking back and looking beyond in CESEE countries: Book Review. Eurasian Geography and Economics. https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2021.2002171

Hashimoto, T. (2017). Editorial: Reviewing European Union accession unexpected results, spillover effects, and externalities. Leiden: Brill.

Hashimoto, T. (2021). Spontaneity and securitisation: (Re)conceptualising ‘state capture’. ACADEMIA Letters, Article 2765, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL2765

Hashimoto, T. (2021). The agency of reformers in new European financial centres: A historically informed financial geography. Finance and Society, 7(1), 57-75. https://doi.org/10.2218/finsoc.v7i1.5591

Hashimoto, T., & Wojcik, D. (2021). Centripetal and centrifugal forces in the wake of external shocks: A case of financial and business services in the Visegrád Four. Applied Geography, 134(September), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102522

Hashimoto, T., & Wójcik, D. (2020). The geography of financial and business services in Poland: Stable concentration and a growing division of labour. European Urban and Regional Studies, 28(2), 85-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776420943664

Hashimoto, T., & Zirgulis, A. (2021). “Risk literacy” and social cleavages: Vulnerability in three acts. Analele Universitatii din Bucuresti – Stiinte Politice, 23(2), 173-192. https://doi.org/10.54885/ISCV8624

Hashimoto, T., Pažitka, V., & Wojcik, D. (2021). The spatial reach of financial centres: An empirical investigation of interurban trade in capital market services. Urban Studies, 59(6), 1255–1274. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098021999992

Bozhilova, D., & Hashimoto, T. (2010). EU–Russia energy negotiations: a choice between rational self-interest and collective action. European Security, 19(4), 626-642. https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2010.528406

Bozhilova, D., & Hashimoto, T. (2013). Geopolitics of energy security in Europe and beyond: Guest Editorial. International Journal of Energy Security and Environmental Research, 1(1), 6-12.

Huettinger, M., Zirgulis, A., & Hashimoto, T. (2021). Deal-breaker of decentralisation? Risk of automation at the peripheral regions: Working paper. In Annual International Conference 2021 Royal Geographical Society (pp. 1-23). Royal Geographical Society

Zirgulis, A., & Hashimoto, T. (2023). Trade theory vs reality: the banana trade war. The International Trade Journal, 37(5), 502-518. https://doi.org/10.1080/08853908.2023.2206170