Michael J. Green
Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and Associate Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University
Professor Green is the author of Arming Japan (Columbia UP, 1995) and Japan’s Reluctant Realism (Palgrave MacMillan, 2001), and co-editor of The U.S.-Japan Alliance (Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1999), Asia’s New Multilateralism (Columbia UP, 2009). His numerous articles have appeared in Journal of Japanese Studies, Asia Policy, National Interest, NBR Analysis, Survival, Washington Quarterly, and other journals and edited books. During 2004-05, he served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC), after joining the NSC in 2001 as Director of Asian Affairs with responsibility for Japan, Korea, and Australia/New Zealand. Dr. Green speaks fluent Japanese and spent over five years in Japan working as a staff member of the National Diet, as a journalist for Japanese and American newspapers, and as a consultant for U.S. business. He has also been on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and a senior adviser to the Office of Asia-Pacific Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He is also vice chair of the congressionally mandated Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission and serves on the advisory boards of the Center for a New American Security and the Australian American Leadership Dialogue and the editorial board of The Washington Quarterly. Professor Green’s current research and writing is focused on Asian regional architecture, Japanese politics, U.S. foreign policy history, the Korean peninsula, Tibet, Burma, and U.S.-India relations.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center
