Mike Mochizuki
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies
Director of the Asian Studies Program
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1982
Office: 1957 E. Street, Suite 503
Phone: (202) 994-7074
Fax: (202) 994-6096
Email: mochizuk@gwu.edu
Expertise
Japanese politics and foreign policy, U.S.-Japan relations, East Asian security
Background
Professor Mochizuki holds the Elliott School's endowed chair in Japan-U.S. Relations in Memory of Gaston Sigur. Dr. Mochizuki comes to the George Washington University from the Brookings Institution where he was a senior fellow. He was formerly with RAND where he served as co-director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Policy. He has taught at the University of Southern California and at Yale University. His most recent publications include Japan Reorients: The Quest for Wealth and Security in East Asia (2000), Toward a True Alliance: Restructuring U.S.-Japan Security Relations (1997), and Japan: Domestic Change and Foreign Policy (1995). He is now writing a book entitled The New Strategic Triangle: the U.S.-Japan Alliance and the Rise of China.
