Director

Center for International Studies

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building E53-473
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

Ford International Professor, Head, Department of Political Science, MIT

TEL: (617) 253-2449
FAX: (617) 258-6164
E-MAIL: samuels@mitvma.mit.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  aerospace industry; business-community relations; defense industry; government bureaucracy; government-business relations; industrial organization; industry studies; modernization
• HISTORY
  business history; economic history; history of US-Japan relations; political and diplomatic history
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  aerospace technology policy; antitrust and competition policy; comparative politics; defense conversion; defense cooperation; defense policy; defense procurement; defense research and development; defense spending; domestic politics; economic regulation; industrial policy; political culture; political economy; political ideology; security policy; technology policy; US policy affecting Japan-US relations
• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  defense technology; energy technology; nuclear technology; technological change; technology competition and cooperation; technology management; technology transfer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Ford International Professor, Head, Department of Political Science, MIT, - 1997.

IN JAPAN: 7 years - research; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Rich Nation, Strong Army, and Japanese Technology (Cornell University Press, 1994); The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective (Cornell University Press, 1987); The Politics of Regional Policy in Japan: Localities Incorporated? (Princeton University Press, 1983); The Political Culture of Foreign Area Studies (co-ed.) (1992).