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US political and diplomatic history, modern American parties, policy making, US foreign policy
Bio
A. Barton Hepburn Professor of American Government and History, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo
Received a doctorate in law from the University of Tokyo. Was a professor at Keio University, a Fulbright scholar at Georgetown University and the University of Maryland, and, from 2001 to 2002, a member of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s discussion panel on a direct election system for prime minister. Is now a member of the U.S.–Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) and vice-president of the Japanese Association for American Studies.
Research Results
The Tea Party Movement, edited as part of the Contemporary American Studies Project (NTT Publishing, 2010)*
Evaluating the Obama Presidency (Nippon-Hyoron-sha, 2010)*
Senior Officials in the Obama Administration: A Study of Transition of Power and Political Appointees, (Nippon‑Hyoron-sha, 2009)*
Evaluating the Obama Presidency, (Nippon‑Hyoron-sha, 2010)*
* Only in Japanese
Articles on the Site
The Changing Face of the Obama Administration at Home and Abroad (3)
The Changing Face of the Obama Administration at Home and Abroad (2)
The Changing Face of the Obama Administration at Home and Abroad (1)
Publications
“American Unilateralism and Its Domestic Origins: Reaganism and After” (prepared for the “Americanization and Nationalism in a Global Age” symposium, August 22–24, 2002, Hokkaido University)
“Expertise and Political Institutions in the U.S. Environmental Policy: The Case of the 1990 Pollution Prevention Act,” in Publication of the Proceedings from The Kyoto American Studies Summer Seminar 1996 (Center for American Studies of Ritsumeikan University, 1997 )
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