Michael Auslin
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Michael Auslin is Director of the Japan Studies Program at the American Enterprise Institute]] and a member of the Committee on the Present Danger]]. Prior to joining AEI, he was a faculty member and research fellow at Yale University]]. Current researchHis research areas are:
He is an advocate of increased US-Japanese cooperation, [1] which he examined at length in a 2008 report. [2] The Japanese-US relationship also should be, he believed, also considered as trilateralism with South Korea. [3] Ballistic missile defense]] against North Korea and possibly China is a key part of such a relationship. While Japan and South Korea have license-built Burke-class]] destroyers with the AEGIS battle management system]], Japan has bought and tested the RIM-161 Standard SM-3]] anti-ballistic missile]], while the Republic of Korea have not. All three countries do have the MIM-104 Patriot]] land-based point defense system. With respect to the Japanese economy and its downturn, which may have worldwide fallout, [4] He has suggested that rather than its quasi-centrally planned economy, laissez-faire principles from medieval Japan might be worth reexamining, especially the tradition of free trade. [5] While he does not object to the China's deployment of warships to help deal with piracy]] off Somalia, he points out that this first global power projection means the US needs to start thinking of China in broader strategic relationships. [6] Where the US routinely provides services of world benefit such as escorting merchant vessels, China has not so far been willing to do so. Previous professional workAt Yale University]], he was an associate professor in the Department of History; Senior Research Fellow, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, 2006-2007; and Founding Director, Project on Japan-U.S. Relations. He was Visiting Researcher, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University in 2005. Honors and EducationHe has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a Marshall Memorial Fellow by the German Marshall Fund, and a Fulbright and Japan Foundation Scholar.
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