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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

  • 'The Strategic Mind Set of the Obama Administration and US Policy toward Northeast Asia', The Obama Administration's Policy Toward the Korean Peninsula, Korea Association of International Studies, Seoul, April 2009
  • 'Human Security in East Asia', The 5th Jeju Peace Forum: Shaping New Regioinal Governance in East Asia, Jeju, South Korea, August 2009
  • 'Assassination, Abduction and Normalization: Historical Mythologies and Misreprentation in Post-war South Korea-Japan Relations', in Rudiger Frank, James Hoare, Patrick Kollner and Susan Pares, eds. Korea Yearbook 2008, Leiden: Brill, 2009
  • 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, 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, 2002
  • 'US-Japan Diplomatic and Security Relations Post-1945: a Historical Perspective', Cornell University Occasional Paper, The United States and Asian Security, 2002

Experience

1997 - Present Fuji Bank University Senior 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