Assistant Professor of Political Science

East Asian Institute

Columbia University
911 SIA Building
New York, NY 10027

TEL: (212) 854-6906
FAX: (212) 749-1497
E-MAIL: rmu2@columbia.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  government-business relations
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  domestic politics; foreign policy and international relations; industrial policy; international economic policy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Program Officer, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia University, 1986-87; Translator and Copywriter, IPI, Inc., 1984-85.

IN JAPAN: 1988-90 - dissertation research; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Troubled Industries: The Political Economy of Industrial Adjustment in Japan (Cornell University Press, forthcoming); Aspects of Japan's Foreign and Defense Policies: The Domestic Dimension (ed. with Pratt) (The International House of Japan, forthcoming); "The Political Economy of Adjustment: The Case of Japan's Minimills, 1970-1988," Pacific Economic Papers (Australian-Japan Research Centre, 1989); "The Declining Industries of Japan: Adjustment and Reallocation," Journal of International Affairs (Spring, 1984).