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It’s up! nytimes.com/2024/10/26/wor…

I had a great time joining David Buckley's podcast UofL Asian Democracy University of Louisville College of Arts & Science to discuss the LDP's recent election performance—and what the results reveal about youth participation and representation in Japan's rapidly aging society

Thurs, 11/21, 8-9 pm ET: Join us to discuss Japan’s House of Representatives election on 10/27, with co-editors & authors of forthcoming Japan Decides 2024, with 前田 耕 (Ko Maeda), Tetsuya Matsubayashi, Kenneth McElwain, & Amy Catalinac! Registration: jposs.org/event/japan-de…

Stunned, but not completely surprised by #SouthKorea's #martiallaw declaration. Re-upping this publication w/ Andrew Yeo on why nationalist polarization is deadly to democracies, even those that appear resilient and stable for a long time: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

In an explainer for Good Authority, I share some historical and contemporary context to martial law in South Korea and Yoon's botched attempt yesterday. goodauthority.org/news/martial-l…

While worrying about my friends in South Korea, East Asian security, Japan-ROK relations, and the status of democracies worldwide, waking up to these The Japan Times headlines (two days in a row) feels … inappropriate

1/4: Here's a trio of essays on what the hell just happened in Seoul ... from three of our best on the amazing Team #CarnegieAsia - Chung Min Lee; Darcie Draudt-Véjares; and Sheena Chestnut Greitens ...

Great post-doc opportunity in Wellington Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington with @MonaKrewel 👇

I have a new policy brief out today discussing the progress in Japan-Korea-US trilateral cooperation over the past two years and reflecting on what lies ahead now that it looks likely that all three countries will have different political leadership soon: emma-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/0oueb/8df6a41d…

Thurs., 2/27, 8-9 pm ET: Join #JPOSS to discuss Masanori Kikuchi's paper, “Legacies of Atomic Bombings on Foreign Policy Attitudes in Japan” with James D. Kim, Atsushi Yamagishi, and Saori Katada. Registration: jposs.org/event/kikuchi-…

New book alert! Congratulations to Amy Catalinac Amy Catalinac (2011-12 postdoctoral fellow) on her new book, Dominance Through Division: Group-Based Clientelism in Japan, from the Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions series Cambridge University Press - Politics! doi.org/10.1017/978100…