Michael Auslin
Michael Auslinis Director of the Japan Studies Program at the American Enterprise Institute and a member of the Committee on the Present Danger. was an associate professor of history and senior research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University prior to joining AEI. His writings on Japan and Japanese diplomacy include the books Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy (Harvard University Press, 2006) and Japan Society: Celebrating a Century, 1907-2007 (Japan Society Gallery, 2007).
Current research
His research areas are:
- Economic Policy Studies
- Foreign and Defense Policy Studies
- Asia-Pacific
He is an advocate of increased US-Japanese cooperation, [1] which he examined at length in a 2008 report. [2]
The Japanese-US relationship also should be, he believed, also considered as trilateralism with South Korea. [3] Ballistic missile defense against North Korea and possibly China is a key part of such a relationship. While Japan and South Korea have license-built Burke-class destroyers with the AEGIS battle management system, Japan has bought and tested the RIM-161 Standard SM-3 anti-ballistic missile, while the Republic of Korea have not. All three countries do have the MIM-104 Patriot land-based point defense system.
With respect to the Japanese economy and its downturn, which may have worldwide fallout, [4] He has suggested that rather than its quasi-centrally planned economy, laissez-faire principles from medieval Japan might be worth reexamining, especially the tradition of free trade. [5]
Previous professional work
At Yale University, he was an associate professor in the Department of History; Senior Research Fellow, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, 2006-2007; and Founding Director, Project on Japan-U.S. Relations.
He was Visiting Researcher, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University in 2005.
Honors and Education
He has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a Marshall Memorial Fellow by the German Marshall Fund, and a Fulbright and Japan Foundation Scholar.
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- M.A., Indiana University at Bloomington
- B.S.F.S., Georgetown University
- ↑ "America's Future Is Tied to Asia's", Far Eastern Economic Review, January 21, 2009
- ↑ Michael Auslin, Christopher Griffin (December 01, 2008)
- ↑ Michael Auslin, Christopher Griffin (March 2008), Time for Trilateralism?, American Enterprise Institute
- ↑ Michael Auslin (February 17, 2009), "Japan's Downturn Is Bad News for the World", Wall Street Journal
- ↑ Michael Auslin (June 1, 2009), "Samurai Economic Smarts", Wall Street Journal Asia