Specialist in Asian Affairs

Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division 7460

Congressional Research Service
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540-7460

TEL: (202) 707-7678
FAX: (202) 707-7639
E-MAIL: rcronin@crs.loc.gov

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  government-business relations; international direct investment; trade relations
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  domestic politics; economic relations; foreign aid; foreign policy and international relations; international economic policy; political economy; political institutions; security policy; security relations; US policy affecting Japan-US relations
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  Japanese perceptions of the US; US perceptions of Japan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Defense Analyst, Asian Affairs Analyst, Head, Asia/Latin America Section, Specialist in Asian Affairs, Congressional Research Service, 1975-present; US Army, 1964-66.

IN JAPAN: visiting professor, Chuo University 2000; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"Globalization and Challenges for the U.S. National and Maritime Security Interests in Asia: Three Broad Scenarios," in The Global Century: Globalization and National Security (National Defense University Press); "The United States and Asia in 1994," Asian Survey (Jan., 1995); "The United States and Asia, 1993: Year of Asia and the Pacific," Asian Survey (Jan, 1994); Japan, the United States and Prospects for the Asia-Pacific Century: Three Scenarios for the Future (St. Martin's Press, 1992); "Japan's Expanding Role in the Asia-Pacific Region: Alternative Scenarios," Business and the Contemporary World (Winter, 1992); "Changing Dynamics of Japan's Interaction with Southeast Asia," Southeast Asian Affairs (1991).