Media inquiries: Andrew Ryan
202.862.4870 (andrewryan@aei.org)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 9, 2007

AEI president Christopher DeMuth announced today that Michael Auslin, a U.S.-East Asian relations and Japanese foreign policy scholar, has joined the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) as a resident scholar.

Auslin was most recently an associate professor at Yale University, where he was the founding director of the Project on U.S.-Japanese Relations, and a senior research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a Marshall Memorial Fellow, and a fellow of the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program. Auslin’s books on Japan and Japanese diplomacy include Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy and Japan Society: Celebrating a Century, 1907-2007.

At AEI, Auslin will study U.S.-East Asian relations, Asian security, U.S.-Japanese relations, and Asia-Pacific multilateral organizations.

Auslin received a BSFS from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, an MA from Indiana University at Bloomington, and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

To interview Michael Auslin, please contact him at 202.862.5848, michael.auslin@aei.org, or 202.862.7160 (assistant).

For media inquiries, please contact Andrew Ryan at 202.862.4870 or andrewryan@aei.org.

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