Last update: July 18, 2024
ICAS Co-Director Robert Dujarric first lived in Tokyo in 1986-87. He moved back to the city in 2004 as a Council on Foreign Relations (Hitachi) International Affairs Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy Trade and Industry (RIETI) of the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (METI) prior to joining the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo (2005-7) as a visiting research fellow. He took his current position at TUJ in 2007.
Robert was raised in Paris and New York, worked at First Boston Corp. in 1984-87 (New York, Madrid, Tokyo) and Goldman Sachs in 1989-93 (New York, London) prior to joining a think tank in Washington in 1993. He graduated from Harvard College in 1983 and holds an MBA from Yale University (1989).
Besides co-directing the Institute, Robert is a frequent contributor to the public debate on Japanese affairs and international political and economic issues, writing op-eds, giving talks, and organizing TUJ events in New York City.
Robert has published several books and numerous articles and is often quoted in the press. He can be reached at dujarric@temple.edu.
Robert Dujarric’s Publications
Last update: December 20, 2022
Japan Related (Politics and Society)
- Taiwan and lessons that can be learned from the Ukraine conflict
The Japan Times, February 24, 2023 (website ) - 'Free and open Indo-Pacific' can be no more than a slogan
Nikkei Asia, December 7, 2022 (website ) - Shinzo Abe’s Japan: A Posthumous Scorecard
Taylor & Francis Online, September 4, 2022 (website ) - The Abe Legacy: How Japan Has Been Shaped by Abe Shinzo
November 19, 2021 (website ) - How Trump Could Push China and Japan Together
The Diplomat, January 12, 2017 (website ) - What Should Shinzo Abe Say to Donald Trump?
The Diplomat, November 16, 2016 (website ) - Japan Without Ambition
The Diplomat, January 22, 2016 (website ) - Explaining Japanese Parochialism
The Diplomat, November 11, 2015 (website ) - Preliminary Lessons From Japan’s Security Debate
The Diplomat, July 24, 2015 (website ) - Assessing Japan’s New Defense Policy Bills
The Diplomat, June 4, 2015 (website ) - Japan and the ‘Counter-Pivot’
The Diplomat, February 27, 2015 (website ) - Taxpayers shouldn’t fund war on Asahi Shimbun
The Japan Times, March 17, 2015 (website ) - Japan: Ask Not What America Will Do for You…
The Diplomat, May 19, 2014 (website ) - Japan: A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing
The Diplomat, April 9, 2014 (website ) - Why does the LDP prefer the GOP?
The Japan Times, March 4, 2014 (website ) - China Is Not 1914 Germany
The Diplomat, February 20, 2014 (website ) - Shinzo Abe: Investing in the Past, Ignoring the Future
The Diplomat, January 15, 2014 (website ) - Why Are Japan’s Apologies Forgotten?
The Diplomat, November 25, 2013 (website ) - Costly challenge of globalizing Japan’s labor force
The Japan Times, November 8, 2013 (website ) - PacNet #79 – Trying to mitigate Japan’s history dilemma
Pacific Forum CSIS, October 29, 2013 (website ) - Japan’s History Problem
The Diplomat, October 14, 2013 (website ) - Shinzo Abe: Friend or Foe of the United States?
The Diplomat, May 22, 2013 (website ) - China’s rift with Japan is open challenge to U.S.
The Japan Times, May 3, 2013 (website ) - Japan’s deglobalization By Robert Dujarric and Shin Woon
Asia Pathways (Blog of ADBI), April 25, 2013 (website ) - Resolution to Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute out of Abe’s hands
South China Morning Post, January 3, 2013 (website ) - Japan’s Three Options in the East China Sea
The Diplomat, October 25, 2012 (website ) - POINT OF VIEW/ Robert Dujarric: Rethinking the Japanese school year: Bakumatsu or Meiji?
Asahi Shimbun, April 10, 2012 (website ) - Why Japan is not setting the global agenda – Japan’s virtual Berlin Wall
By Robert Dujarric and Ayumi Takenaka
The Oriental Economist, December 2011 (PDF: 105KB ) - POINT OF VIEW/ Robert Dujarric: Japan’s ambivalence toward Asia
Asahi Shimbun, October 19, 2011 (website ) - POINT OF VIEW/ Robert Dujarric: Opening Japan while the West embraces ‘sakoku’
Asahi Shimbun, April 27, 2011 (website ) - POINT OF VIEW/ Robert Dujarric: Japan’s territorial claims are detrimental to its national interest
Asahi Shimbun, January 13, 2011 (website ) - Enhancing Japan’s position in the Senkaku Dispute
Pacific Forum CSIS, October 15, 2010 (PDF: 100KB ) - Looking at polls and thinking of Japan-Korea relations
The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, September 26, 2010 (PDF: 67KB ) - Immigrants can buoy Japan
The Japan Times, May 20, 2010 (website ) - For Japan to thrive, the wall must come down
The Japan Times, April 14, 2010 (website ) - Tokyo needs to get over the G8
The Japan Times, October 27, 2009 (website ) - Implications of Japan’s elections for Korea
The Korea Herald, August 19, 2009 (website ) - Angst over opposition rule
Japan Times, August 3, 2009 (website ) - Incoming ambassador Roos is right for the job
By Robert Dujarric and Weston S. Konishi
Japan Times, June 17, 2009 (website ) - Hurdles to a Japanese F-22
By Weston S. Konishi and Robert Dujarric
Japan Times, May 16, 2009 (website ) - Lessons from history for abduction policy
Japan Times, March 5, 2009 (website ) - Why can’t Japanese kids get into Harvard?
By Robert Dujarric and Yuki Allyson Honjo
Japan Times, February 5, 2009 (website ) - Obama may press Japan
The Japan Times, December 19, 2008 (website ) - Japan in a post-U.S. world
The Japan Times, October 18, 2008 (website ) - Nationalism isn’t an issue in Japan
The Japan Times, July 30, 2008 (website ) - Kosovo’s independence will impact on Japan
The International Herald Tribune/The Asahi Shimbun (PDF: 126KB ) - Retour sur un Japon conquérant
Le Monde, December 26, 2007 (PDF: 222KB ) - Fukuda has chance to tighten future U.S. ties
The International Herald Tribune/The Asahi Shimbun, November 8, 2007 (PDF: 86KB ) - Japan needs to keep its military close to home
The International Herald Tribune/The Asahi Shimbun, October 24, 2007 (PDF: 86KB ) - Fukuda’s first task: Preventing a U.S.-Iran war
The International Herald Tribune/The Asahi Shimbun, September 28, 2007 (PDF: 89KB ) - Biggest threat continues to be ignored by Abe
The International Herald Tribune/The Asahi Shimbun, August 31, 2007 (PDF: 85KB ) - A post-Iraq America’s implications for Japan
The International Herald Tribune/The Asahi Shimbun, July 27, 2007 (PDF: 74KB ) - ‘Comfort women’ issue likely to haunt Japan
The International Herald Tribune/The Asahi Shimbun, July 4, 2007 (PDF: 138KB ) - Japan’s needs its own experts in Washington
The International Herald Tribune/The Asahi Shimbun, June 21, 2007 (PDF: 89KB ) - Robert Dujarric on “Japan’s nuclear future in a Post-Iraq world” (PDF: 48KB )
- ed. Japan and Korea’s Future: A Japanese-Korean-US Trilateral Dialogue
Indianapolis, IN: Hudson Institute, 2001
Japan Related (Economics)
- Japan is only harming itself by keeping its borders shut
Nikkei Asia,& January 27, 2022 (website ) - COMMENTARY: Japan should carve out its future energy policy soon
Asahi Shimbun, April 30, 2012 (website ) - Avoiding “Geriatric Inc”
Eurobiz Japan, September, 2010 (website ) - “Capitalizing on Innovation: The Case of Japan,” 2009
by Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu - Guest column: Beyond the industrial
Financial Times, October 13, 2008 (website ) - Getting Japan to capitalize on its innovation
The Japan Times, May 15, 2008 (website )
US Related
- America confronts North Korea: A historical perspective and a look at the future
Monde chinois, 2018/1 (N° 53) (website ) / (PDF: 1.6MB ) - US Allies in the Age of Trump
The Diplomat, October 31, 2017 (website ) - Grading Obama’s Foreign Policy
The Diplomat, March 19, 2016 (website ) - Japan and the ‘Counter-Pivot’
The Diplomat, February 27, 2015 (website ) - America in Northeast Asia: Credibility and Deterrence
The Diplomat, October 27, 2014 (website ) - Republicans’ Exceptionally Bad View
The Diplomat, April 2, 2011 (website ) - The Obama bid to rid the world of nuclear weapons boosts US security — minus the threat of Armageddon
The Christian Science Monitor, March 4, 2010 (website ) - A Missed Opportunity
By Andy Zelleke and Robert Dujarric
Real Clear Politics, December 4, 2009 (website ) - Want to cut emissions in the US? Change the discussion
Christian Science Monitor, November 2, 2009 (website ) - Don’t Define Strategy Too Narrowly in Afghanistan
By Andy Zelleke & Robert Dujarric
Real Clear World, October 9, 2009 (website ) - The American Century isn’t over: America is still uniquely valued around the world – and Barack Obama can build on that.
Christian Science Monitor, January 7, 2009 (website ) - Dropping the Ball on Russia Policy
Real Clear World, August 26, 2008 (website ) - The success of that surge
The Boston Globe, July 31, 2008 (website ) - The death of U.S. strategy in Iraq
The Christian Science Monitor, June 17, 2008 (website ) - Choosing the best U.S. president for the world
The International Herald Tribune/The Asahi Shimbun February 29, 2008 (PDF: 74KB ) - English and immigration for soft power deficit
The International Herald Tribune/The Asahi Shimbun, February 9, 2008 (PDF: 89KB ) - New U.S. president to be left with mess in Iraq
The International Herald Tribune/The Asahi Shimbun, January 25, 2008 (PDF: 85KB ) - Conclusion, in Sébastien Fumaroli, Tempete sous un crâne : L’Amérique en guerre, 2003-2006.
Paris : B. de Fallois, 2007. [Brain Storm: America at War, 2003-2006] - US Military Presence and Northeast Asian Regional Stability: Comparative Perspectives Between the US-Japan and the US-Korea Alliances.
Korea Observer, Autumn 2005 (36:3), pp. 445-463 - America’s Inadvertent Empire
By William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric
New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2004 (paperback, 2005) - Le repli de l’Amérique, un danger pour l’Europe
Le Monde, October 30, 2004 (PDF: 85KB ) - L’Amérique, forcément impériale
Le Monde, May 24, 2003 (PDF: 59KB ) - Deterring North Korea: U.S. Options
By Terry C. Stevens, David J. Smith, Chuck Downs, and Robert Dujarric
Comparative Strategy (22) 2003 - Korea After Unification: Implications for US Strategy
Indianapolis, IN: Hudson Institute, 2000.
Other Issues
- Is China Losing the Opportunity to Lead?
The Diplomat, October 30, 2018 (website ) - In Fact, the West Is Rising
The Diplomat, June 30, 2014 (website ) - China’s Welcome FDI
The Diplomat, September 9, 2011 (website ) - China’s Zero-Sum Game
The Diplomat, July 26, 2011 (website ) - If Bahrain Erupts
The Diplomat, June 13, 2011 (website ) - Price for a potential Israeli strike on Iran? A Palestinian state.
By Andy Zelleke and Robert Dujarric
Christian Science Monitor, August 2, 2010 (website ) - Wanted: elected leaders with international experience.
By Robert Dujarric and Andy Zelleke
Christian Science Monitor, March 23, 2009 (website ) - Robert Dujarric on “China: Opportunity and challenge for the US Political and strategic issues” (PDF: 88KB )
- Robert Dujarric on “Strategic Goals in U.S., Japan, and China Relations” (PDF: 97KB )
- China and South Korea’s Future Strategy
Françoise Nicolas, ed. Korea and the New Asia, Routledge, 2007 - Nucléaire : ambivalences sud-coréennes
Le Monde, October 12, 2006 (PDF: 310KB ) - La Chine et les relations de puissance en Asie orientale, Revue générale de stratégie No. 26/27, mai 2006. [China and the other powers in East Asia, in French]
- North Korea’s Reformability in Comparative Perspective.
By Robert Dujarric and Park Young-Ho
Korea and World Affairs, (29:1), Spring 2005. - La politique nord-coréenne des Etats-Unis.
In Annuaire français des relations internationales. Paris, 2004 - Preliminary Political Lessons of the 9-11 War
Korean Journal of Defense Analysis (Spring 2002) - North Korea: Risks and Rewards of Engagement
Journal of International Affairs (Columbia University). Vol. 54 No. 2 (2001) - ed. and principal author, Korea Security Pivot of Northeast Asia
Indianapolis, IN: Hudson Institute, 1998 - Commonwealth or Empire? Russia, Central Asia and the Transcaucasus
Indianapolis IN: Hudson Institute, 1995