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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

  • Asian Survey: “Japan in 2020: COVID-19 and the End of the Abe Era” March 1, 2021
  • Wilson Center: “A “Taiwan Relations Act” for Japan?” February 27, 2021
  • Cambridge Univ Press (Book Chapter): “Japan’s Defense Reforms Under Abe” February 17, 2021
  • Brookings Institution Press: “Proactive Stabilizer: Japan’s Role in the Asia-Pacific Security Order” February 3, 2020
  • Brookings Institution Press: “Japan and the Liberal International Order: A Survey Experiment” January 30, 2020
  • Brookings: “China, Japan, and the East China Sea: Beijing’s “gray zone” coercion and Tokyo’s response” December 2, 2019
  • Brookings Foreign Policy Interview: “The Stress Test: Japan in an Era of Great Power Competition” October 21, 2019
  • IRAP: “Unambivalent alignment: Japan’s China strategy, the US alliance, and the ‘hedging’ fallacy” September 6, 2019
  • Naval Institute Press: “China’s Maritime Gray-Zone Operations in the East China Sea and Japan’s Response” March 1, 2019
  • JJPS: “Japan’s LDP-Komeito Government in a Mixed Electoral System” February 28, 2019

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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 Japan, China, the United States, and Asia-Pacific security. 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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