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Category Archives: PacNet

PacNet: “On the verge of history? Japan’s 2016 election and prospects for Article 9 revision”

July 11, 2016by Adam P. Liff

My latest … an analysis of the prospects for constitutional revision in Japan since “pro-revision” forces captured a historic 2/3 super-majority in the July 10 Upper House election … has been […]

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PacNet: “The 2015 US-Japan Guidelines for Defense Cooperation: Toward ‘A More Balanced and Effective Alliance.'”

April 24, 2015by Adam P. Liff

My latest… a preview and preliminary analysis of next week’s highly anticipated (and historic) revision of the U.S.-Japan Guidelines for Defense Cooperation has been published in the Pacific Forum CSIS’ PacNet newsletter. […]

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PacNet: “Watch This Space: ‘Collective Self-defense,’ Constitutional Reinterpretation, and Japan’s Security Policy”

June 27, 2014by Adam P. Liff

My analysis of the historical significance and likely implications of Japan’s forthcoming Cabinet resolution ‘reinterpreting’ the Constitution’s Article 9 to allow Japan to exercise the UN-sanctioned right to ‘collective self-defense’ […]

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PacNet: “U.S. Policy Toward North Korea: The China Fallacy”

October 8, 2009by Adam P. Liff

Liff, Adam P. U.S. Policy Toward North Korea: The China Fallacy. PacNet [No. 67]. Honolulu, HI: Pacific Forum CSIS, October 8, 2009.

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Recent Publications

  • *New publication* Brookings: “Japan’s new security policies: a long road to full implementation” March 28, 2023
  • *New Publication* CSIS: “Assessing the Future Trajectory of Japan-China Relations” March 28, 2023
  • The China Quarterly: “Japan, Taiwan, and the ‘One China’ Framework” September 26, 2022
  • Washington University Global Studies Law Review: “A Fourth Model of Constitutional Review? De Facto Executive Supremacy” (re: Japan’s Cabinet Legislation Bureau 内閣法制局) August 18, 2022
  • Asia Policy: “The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Taiwan” July 28, 2022
  • The China Quarterly: “The ‘One China’ Framework at Fifty (1972-2022): The Myth of ‘Consensus’ and its Evolving Policy Significance” July 26, 2022
  • Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs: “Party Politics and Foreign Policy in Japan” July 20, 2022
  • Journal of Contemporary China: “Reassessing Seoul’s ‘One China’ Policy: South Korea-Taiwan ‘Unofficial’ Relations after 30 Years (1992-2022)” June 2, 2022
  • Journal of Japanese Studies: “Japan Transformed? The Foreign Policy Legacy of the Abe Government” March 10, 2022
  • Asian Survey: “Japan in 2021: COVID-19 (Again), the Olympics, and a New Administration” March 2, 2022

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I am an associate professor in Indiana University's Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. I research and teach on East Asian international relations, politics, and diplomacy—with a particular focus on Japanese politics and foreign 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 Associate-in-Research at Harvard University's Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

E-mail: "aliff" at indiana.edu

Twitter: @AdamPLiff
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