Fellows

Aurelia George Mulgan is Professor of Politics in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, where she has taught extensively on Japanese politics and Northeast Asian security issues, and published on many aspects of Japanese politics, foreign and defense policies. Her awards include a Japan Foundation Fellowship for the study of US-Japan relations, an Advanced Research Fellowship at Harvard University’s Program on US-Japan Relations and an Abe Fellowship for work on Japan and international peacekeeping.  She has held visiting research or teaching positions at the Research Institute for Peace and Security

Nobuhiro Hiwatari (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is a professor of political economy/international political economy at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo. He has also taught at Columbia University and at the University of California, Berkeley and has conducted research at Harvard, Yale, and Cambridge Universities. His research interests are the party politics of “neo-liberal” reforms in OECD countries, and the impact of political regime heterogeneity on economic cooperation in the Asian-Pacific region; his works on these topics have appeared in academic journals as well as edited volumes. Currently, he is finishing a project examining how party competition