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East Asian international relations and security; Chinese, Japanese, and Korean politics and foreign policy; security affairs; military force structure and strategy; civil-military relations.
Experience:Visiting Faculty Member, Boston College, Political Science Department, 2002; Captain, U.S. Army Reserves (Intelligence), through 2000; Visiting Scholar, Fudan University, Shanghai, 1996-1999.
Languages:Japanese and Chinese.
Selected Publications:"The Fall and Rise of Navies in East Asia: Military Organizations, Domestic Politics, and Grand Strategy," International Security (Fall 2002); "Getting Realism: U.S. Asia Policy Reconceived," the National Interest (Fall 2002) [Co-authored with George Gilboy]; "Japan's Dual Hedge," Foreign Affairs (Sep/Oct 2002) [Co-authored with Richard Samuels]; "Japan," in Richard J. Ellings and Aaron L. Friedberg, eds., Strategic Asia 2002-2003: Asian Aftershocks (National Bureau of Asian Research, 2002) [Co-author with Richard Samuels]; "China's Coming Transformation," Foreign Affairs (July/Aug 2001) [Co-authored with George Gilboy]; "Japan," in Richard J. Ellings and Aaron L. Friedberg, eds., Strategic Asia 2001-2002: Power and Purpose (National Bureau of Asian Research, 2001) [Co-author with Kenneth B. Pyle]; "Mercantile Realism and Japanese Foreign Policy," International Security (Spring 1998) [Co-authored with Richard Samuels]; and "The Conventional Military Balance in Korea," Breakthroughs (Spring 1995) [Co-authored with Nick Beldecos].
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September 2005
Article
Current History
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July 14, 2005
Interview
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December 8, 2004
Transcript
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Septmeber 2004
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Land reforms aimed at raising rural incomes and promoting urbanization could accelerate the crisis already building in China's cities. If urban legal and social reforms fail to keep pace, China could face intensifying conflict between a burgeoning class of have-nots and an entitled minority, a consolidated alliance between political leaders and business and social elites, and a host of other social and political ills familiar to many Latin American states...
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December 19, 2003
Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
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September 2, 2003
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May 2003
Task Force Report No. 45
Task Force Report
The North Korean nuclear program is headed in a dangerous direction. Yet the United States and its allies have not set forth a coherent or unified strategy to stop it. This Task Force report evaluates the challenges facing the United States in and around the Korean Peninsula and assesses American options for meeting them.
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February 17, 2003
Op-Ed
The Australian
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Fall 2002
Article
The National Interest
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