Michael Auslin

Michael Robert Auslin (born 17 March 1967) is an American writer, policy analyst, historian, and Asian expert. He was formerly an Associate Professor at Yale University; and he is now a Resident Scholar and Director of Japanese Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, DC.^[1] Auslin is also regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and National Review.

Early life

Auslin grew up in suburban Chicago.^[2] He lived and worked in Japan as an Assistant Language Teacher on the JET Programme.^[3] He earned his BSc from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, a master's degree from the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University at Bloomington, and his Ph.D. in History was awarded at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Career

Auslin was an Assistant Professor (2000–2006) and then Associate Professor (2006–2007) in the Department of History at Yale University.^[1] 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.^[4]

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.^[1]

He has appeared numerous times on Fox News, BBC, and other media outlets, and is quoted regularly in newspapers such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. He was a featured commentator and script consultant in the 2004 PBS series "Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire".^[4]

Auslin also works extensively on aerospace issues and has written numerous articles on airpower.^[5] He has questioned the capability of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II to engage modern air defenses, in spite of Russia's own admission that their systems are vulnerable to the F-35.^[6][7]

Select works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Michael Auslin, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 8 works in 30+ publications in 1 language and 100+ library holdings.^[8]

• 2006 — Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01521-0; OCLC 56493769
• 2007 — Japan Society: Celebrating a Century 1907-2007 (with Edwin O. Reischauer). New York: Japan Society. ISBN 9780913304594; OCLC 85766283
• 2011 — "Pacific Cosmpolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Journals

• "The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents," The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999.

Honors

• Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum^[9]
• Fulbright fellow^[4]
• Japan Foundation fellow^[4]
• Asia Society Asia 21 Fellow
• Marshall fellow^[10]
• Yasuhiro Nakasone Prize for Excellence, Institute for International Policy Studies, Tokyo^[11]

Notes

External links

• AEI website
• 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"