Associate Professor

Department of Government and International Studies

University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208

TEL: (803) 777-8180
FAX: (803) 777-9308
HOME TEL & FAX: (803) 736-3620
E-MAIL: robert.angel@scarolina.edu
E-MAIL2: rangel@scsn.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  government bureaucracy; government-business relations; public relations; trade, investment and promotion; trade relations
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  comparative politics; domestic politics; economic policy; foreign policy and international relations; industrial policy; international economic policy; international public affairs; Japanese lobby in Washington, DC; leadership; political change and domestic conflict; political economy; political institutions; public diplomacy; trade policy; US policy affecting Japan-US relations
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  US perceptions of Japan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, 1986-92; President and CEO, Japan Economic Institute, 1977-84.

IN JAPAN: 1975-76 - Fulbright; 1965, 1971-72 - study; 1961-63 - military; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"Hosokawa 'Kaikaku' Seiken o Chukan Kessan Suru," [An Interim Assessment of the Hosokawa 'Reform' Government] (with Ando) Sekai (April, 1994); Explaining Economic Policy Failure: Japan and the 1969-1971 International Money Crisis (Columbia University Press, 1991); "Japanese Terrorists and Japanese Countermeasures," The Politics of Counterterrorism: The Ordeal of Democratic States (ed. Rubin) (The John Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, 1990).