Michael Auslin
Michael Robert Auslin (born 17 March 1967) is an American writer, policy analyst, historian, and scholar of Asia. He is currently the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Senior Fellow in the Asia and National Security Programs at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.[1] He was formerly an associate professor at Yale University and a resident scholar and director of Japanese studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.[2]
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Early life
Auslin grew up in suburban Chicago.[3] He lived and worked in Japan as an Assistant Language Teacher on the JET Programme.[4]
Career
Auslin was an assistant professor (2000–2006) and then associate professor (2006–2007) in the Department of History at Yale University.[2] In addition, he was also the founding director of the Project on Japan-U.S. Relations (2004–2007) and a senior research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies (2006–2007) at Yale.[5]
In 2005, he was a visiting researcher at the Graduate School of Law of Kobe University and in 2009 was a visiting professor in the Faculty of Law at Tokyo University.[2] He was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2018[6], and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and a Marshall Memorial Fellow while a professor at Yale.[7] In addition, he was a Fulbright Scholar and Japan Foundation Scholar while in graduate school. He currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Wilton Park USA Foundation.[8]
Auslin was a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal[9], writing on Asia, in addition to publishing in leading media such as The Atlantic[10], Foreign Affairs[11], Foreign Policy[12], and The Spectator[13], among others. He has been a commentator on Fox News, BBC, and for other media outlets, including The News Hour. He was a featured commentator and script consultant in the 2004 PBS series "Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire".[5]
Select works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Michael Auslin, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly eight works in over thirty publications in one language and 100+ library holdings.[14]
- 2020 — Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific Stanford: Hoover Institution Press.
- 2017 — The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region
- 2011 — Pacific Cosmpolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- 2007 — Japan Society: Celebrating a Century 1907-2007 (with Edwin O. Reischauer). New York: Japan Society. ISBN 9780913304594; OCLC 85766283
- 2004 — Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01521-0; OCLC 56493769
- Journals
- The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents, The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999.
Honors
- Fellow, Royal Historical Society
- Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum[15]
- Fulbright fellow[5]
- Japan Foundation fellow[5]
- Asia Society Asia 21 Fellow
- Marshall fellow[16]
- Yasuhiro Nakasone Prize for Excellence, Institute for International Policy Studies, Tokyo[17]
Notes
- "New FPRI Appointments - Foreign Policy Research Institute". https://www.fpri.org/. Retrieved 2019-10-11. External link in
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(help) - American Enterprise Institute (AEI): Auslin, bio notes
- Auslin, Michael R. "On Memorial Day, Remembering the Old Army Buddy," Washington Post. May 24, 2009.
- Dooley, Ben (10 February 2011). "Former JETs defend program". Retrieved 27 August 2017 – via Japan Times Online.
- Library of Congress (LOC): Michael Auslin, bio notes
- "Auslin Tapped As Royal Historical Society Fellow". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- "Yale Professor Named a Young Global Leader". YaleNews. 2006-02-01. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- "Board members". Wilton Park. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- "Michael Auslin - News, Articles, Biography, Photos - WSJ.com". WSJ. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- Michael Auslin. "Michael Auslin". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- "Michael Auslin". Foreign Affairs. 2017-08-01. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- Auslin, Michael. "Michael Auslin". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- "Author: Michael Auslin". Coffee House. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- "WorldCat Identities". www.oclc.org. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- "Yale Professor Named a Young Global Leader". YaleNews. 1 February 2006. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- "Michael Auslin named a Marshall Memorial Fellow," Yale Bulletin & Calendar, Vol. 35, No. 13. December 15, 2006.
- "Recipients of the Sixth Nakasone Yasuhiro Award" (PDF). Institute for International Policy Studies. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
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- The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
- Wilton Park
- Cosmos Club
- The Elizabethan Club
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Library of Congress webcast: Highlights of Japan-US relationship with Norman Mineta, Midori Goto, Naoyuki Agawa and Michael Auslin, 2007
- Interview with Auslin on "New Books in East Asian Studies"