Foreign Policy

Security in the Asia Pacific

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2010

Teaching Fellow.  Taught by visiting Professor Christopher W. Hughes in the Department of Government, Harvard.  This course applied the four major paradigms in international relations (structural neo-realism, liberalism, constructivism, and critical security) to security issues in the Asia-Pacific region.  Click here for the syllabus, and here for...

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Political Economy of Japan

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2009

Teaching Fellow (also in 2006).  Taught by Professors Kay Shimizu and Margarita Estevez-Abe in the Department of Government, Harvard.   This course used theories in comparative politics to teach students about the idiosyncrasies of Japan’s political system and political economy.   Click here for the syllabus, and here for course evaluation...

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Japan in the Social Sciences

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2007

Teaching Fellow.  Taught by Professor Susan J. Pharr in the Department of East Asian Studies, Harvard.   It examined problems in Japanese politics, economy, and society from an interdisciplinary perspective.   Topics included war memory; the emperor system; constitutional revision; capitalism; the employment system; and immigration.  Click here for the syllabus.

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