Mireya Solis (Brookings | American), Will Japan Join the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Trade Policy at a Crossroads

Date and Time

April 30, 2013
12:30PM - 02:00PM EDT

Ted and Doris Lee Gathering Room (S030) │Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse │CGIS South Building │1730 Cambridge Street (map)

Special Series on Globalization and Governance

Will Japan Join the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Trade Policy at a Crossroads

Mireya Solis

Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies and Senior Fellow, Brookings Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, and Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University 

Professor Solis’s research interests cover comparative and international political economy, comparative studies of regional integration, trade policy, and Japanese politics and foreign economic policy. She has authored or co-edited several books: Banking on Multinationals: Public Credit and the Export of Japanese Sunset Industries (Stanford University Press, 2004), Cross-Regional Trade Agreements: Understanding Fragmented Regionalism in East Asia (Springer, 2008), and Competitive Regionalism: Explaining the Diffusion and Implications of FTAs in the Pacific Rim (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009). Dr. Solis has published articles in journals such as International Studies QuarterlyReview of International Political EconomyThe World EconomyPacific AffairsBusiness and PoliticsJournal of East Asian Studies, and Asian Economic Policy Review. She was the recipient of the Abe Fellowship (2005-06) and was post-doctoral fellow of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University (2000-01).

Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center; and the Mossavar-Rah­mani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School