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Foreign Policy: “A Player, but No Superpower”

March 7, 2013 · by Adam P. Liff · in Online magazine. ·

Published a web article on Foreign Policy on the significance and implications of China’s military development.

  • Erickson, Andrew S. and Adam P. Liff. “A Player, but No Superpower,” Foreign Policy , March 7, 2013.

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I am Professor of East Asian International Relations in Indiana University's Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, where I also serve as Founding Director of its 21st Century Japan Politics & Society Initiative. I research and teach on East Asian international relations, politics, and diplomacy—with a particular focus on Japanese politics and foreign (esp. security) policy, the U.S.-Japan alliance, U.S.-Japan-China relations, and Asia-Pacific security affairs. My other professional affiliations include Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Faculty Associate and Associate-in-Research at, respectively, Harvard University's Program on U.S.-Japan RelationsandReischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.

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