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The World Today - October issueThe World Today - October issue
Monday 6 October 2008
The current financial crisis should come as no surprise, writes Dr Paola Subacchi in this month's The World Today....

Somali Piracy: A Growing Issue for Africa and the International CommunitySomali Piracy: A Growing Issue for Africa and the International Community
Thursday 2 October 2008
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has more than doubled in 2008 and threatens to disrupt international trade and...

Six Perspectives on the Georgia ConflictSix Perspectives on the Georgia Conflict
Tuesday 30 September 2008
Six new briefing notes from the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House offer analysis and insight on the...

Making Sense of the EU Climate Change Package
October, 2008
The EU is currently at a hectic stage in the development of its internal climate change policies. Having proposed...

Piracy in Somalia: Threatening Global Trade, Feeding Local Wars
October, 2008
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has more than doubled in 2008; so far over 60 ships have been...

Alternative Management Models and Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable Forest Use in the Democratic Republic of Congo
October, 2008
Download Paper here (French version) This is a report of a meeting, Alternative Management Models and Finance Mechanisms for Sustainable...

After the Battle: What the August War will mean for Russia's Domestic Politics
September, 2008
The true driver of Russia's foreign agenda is the domestic situation. The Russian ruling class has returned to a...

 

 

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