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Yemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional StabilityYemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional Stability
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Yemen presents a 'perfect storm' of problems for Western governments confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically...

Key Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack ObamaKey Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack Obama
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Chatham House experts offer their perspectives on the key foreign policy and economic challenges facing the new administration. The following...

Economic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' MeasuresEconomic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' Measures
Wednesday 15 October 2008
A new paper by Chatham House says that the once-in-a-century economic meltdown means that OECD countries' simultaneous collapse in...

Prospects for Georgian Civil Society
November, 2008
This is a summary of a meeting held at Chatham House on 10 November 2008.

Business and Human Rights: Closing the Gaps
November, 2008
This is a summary of the International Law Discussion Group meeting held on 6 November 2008 at Chatham House.

Reflections on Russia and the West
November, 2008
Those concerned with policy-making towards Russia must determine how best to listen to the country's changing conversation with itself,...

Yemen: Fear of Failure
November, 2008
Yemen presents a potent combination of problems for policy-makers confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically important...

 

 

Dr John Swenson-Wright

Dr John Swenson-Wright

Associate Fellow, Asia Programme

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Expertise

  • Japanese domestic politics
  • Japanese foreign and security policy
  • US-Japan contemporary and historical relations
  • The politics and foreign policies of the two Koreas
  • Northeast Asian security

Projects

  • Japan's emerging security realism and its implications for regional stability in Northeast Asia
  • Inter-Korean relations and the North Korean strategic threat
  • Cold War historiography and the US-Japan security relationship

Recent Publications

  • Unequal Allies? United States Security and Alliance Policy Toward Japan, 1945-1960, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2005
  • The Best Course Available. A personal account of the secret US - Japan Okinawa negotiations Wakaizumi Kei, John Swenson-Wright, ed., Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002
  • Post-Cold War US-Japan Relations: Incremental Realism in a Maturing Security Partnership, International Center for Comparative Law and Politics, Anglo-Japanese Academy Proceedings, ICCLP Publications No. 7, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, John Swenson-Wright, 2002
  • US-Japan Diplomatic and Security Relations Post-1945: a Historical Perspective, Cornell University Occasional Paper, The United States and Asian Security, John Swenson-Wright, May 2002

Experience

1997 - Present Fuji Bank University Lecturer in Modern Japanese Studies, East Asia Institute, University of Cambridge
1997 - 1996 Lecturer in Modern Japanese Studies, East Asia Institute, University of Cambridge

Broadcast Experience

Extensive

Languages

Japanese