America’s Role in the Making of Japan’s Economic Miracle

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Yusaku Horiuchi
Associate Professor of Government and Mitsui Chair in the Study of Japan, Dartmouth College

Michael Beckley
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tufts University

Jennifer Miller
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Dartmouth College

Moderator: Susan Pharr 
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics

(Co-sponsored by the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School)

Professor Horiuchi’s research and teaching interests include comparative politics (electoral politics, political economy, public opinion, Japan) and political methodology (statistical methods, research design). He is the author of Institutions, Incentives and Electoral Participation in Japan: Cross-Level and Cross-National Perspectives (Routledge 2005). His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, World Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Party Politics, Journal of East Asian Studies, Political Psychology, International Political Science Review, and in edited volumes. In 2004, his article (co-authored with Jun Saito) won the Alan Rosenthal Prize of the American Political Science Association’s Legislative Section. He is currently completing a book manuscript,  U.S. Foreign Policy and Global Public Opinion, with Benjamin Goldsmith.

Professor Beckley specializes in U.S. and Chinese foreign policy.  His research has appeared in a variety of publications and popular media, including International Security, Journal of Strategic Studies, Harvard Business Review, Yale Journal of International Affairs, Financial Times, National Public Radio, and Weekly Standard. His awards and fellowships include the Amos Perlmutter Prize (Best Essay of the Year, Journal of Strategic Studies); U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security Fellowship, Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College; and International Security Program Fellowship, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA), Harvard Kennedy School. He has also worked at the RAND Corporation, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Carter Center.  

Professor Miller’s research interests are the early Cold War, U.S.-Japanese relations, and Pacific History. Her current research project, entitled Contested Alliance: The United States, Japan, and Democracy in the Cold War utilizes U.S. and Japanese materials to examine the transformation of the U.S.-Japanese relationship after the end of the U.S. occupation of Japan. In particular, it explores the intersections between U.S. global power, the challenges of Cold War alliance building, and the development of postwar Japanese democracy. Professor Miller’s articles on this topic has been published in the Journal of Contemporary History and is forthcoming in Diplomatic History. In conjunction with the Wisconsin Historical Society, Professor Miller has also published two oral history collections: Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories: Our Veterans Remember (with Sarah Larsen, 2010) and Wisconsin Korean War Stories: Wisconsin Veterans Tell Their Stories from the Forgotten War. (with Sarah Larsen, 2008).