Mr.
Akira Iriye is the Charles Warren Professor of American History
at Harvard University. His research interests include international
history, American diplomatic history, and US-Asian relations. Mr. Iriye's
current research involves the role of non-governmental organizations
in international relations. Among his recent publications are The
Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific (1987),
China and Japan in the Global Context (1992), The Globalizing
of America (1993), and Cultural Internationalism and World Order
(1996).
Mr.
Harry Harding
is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Elliott School of
International Affairs. He is a specialist on the domestic politics and
international relations of Asia, with a particular emphasis on China.
Mr. Harding, who received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1974,
is the author of several books, including A Fragile Relationship:
The United States and China since 1972 (Brookings, 1992), China's
Second Revolution: Reform After Mao (Brookings, 1987), and Organizing
China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976 (Stanford, 1981). His
articles have appeared in such journals as China Quarterly, World
Politics, and Foreign Policy. He is the former Chair of the
Program for International Studies in Asia, a trustee of the Asia Foundation,
a director of the National Committee on US-China Relations, and a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute of
Strategic Studies, Defense Policy Board, and numerous other organizations.
Mr. Mike M. Mochizuki
is the Japan-US Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston Sigur at George
Washington University. His areas of expertise are in Japanese domestic
politics and foreign policy, US-Japan relations, and East Asian international
relations. His previous associations include senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution, senior political scientist, RAND, former co-director, RAND
Center for Asia-Pacific Policy, former associate professor of international
relations, University of Southern California, former assistant professor
of political science at Yale University, and member of the Scientific
and Policy Advisory Committee of the US Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency. He earned his A.B. at Brown University in 1972 and a Ph.D. from
Harvard University in 1982. Among his many publications, his recent
works include Japan Reorients: The Quest for Wealth and Security
in East Asia (forthcoming), Toward a True Alliance: Restructuring
US-Japan Security in East Asia, ed. (1997), and Japan: Domestic
Change and Foreign Policy (1995).
Mr.
Warren Cohen is Distinguished University Professor of History at
the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Senior Scholar at
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is a historian
on US foreign relations, especially with East Asia. He has published
fifteen books, the best known of which is America's Response to China
(1990). Mr. Cohen served as general editor of the Cambridge History
of American Foreign Relations (1993) to which he contributed the
4th volume, America in the Age of Soviet Power. He is an occasional
commentator on National Public Radio and the Voice of America. From
1995-98, he directed the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
The US-Japan relationship must now be understood within the framework of globalization. But what, exactly, does "globalization" mean? How can we better define globalization? How has the US-Japan relationship been transformed in the process of globalization? The health and viability of the bilateral relationship, therefore, would depend on the degree to which the two can cooperate, at both the governmental and societal level, in coping with the challenge of further globalization. This task entails educational efforts as well as geostrategic coordination and economic interdependence. Unless this difficult task is carried out, the bilateral partnership may lose its significance.
