The Pomona Politics Department
David Arase
- Associate Professor of Politics, 1989.
- B.A., Cornell University
- M.A., School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins
University
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- Contact Information
- Office: Carnegie 20
- Phone Number: 909-607-1211
E-mail: david.arase@pomona.edu
- Classes
- Politics 8: Introduction to
International Relations
- Politics 161: Japanese Politics
- Politics 163: Comparative East
Asian Politics
- Politics 170: Introduction to
International Political Economy
- IR 100: International Relations Intermediate Seminar
IR 191a: Senior Thesis Research Seminar
- Expertise Areas
- Japanese Politics / Foreign Policy
East Asian Politics
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- US-East Asian Relations
- Northeast Asian economic cooperation
- Research Interests
- The international relations of East Asia with special emphasis on
the role of Japan. My current areas of interest are Northeast Asian
economic cooperation and regional security relations.
- Selected Publications
- Editor & contributor, Japan's
Development Assistance (London & New York: Routledge,
2005).
“Japanese ODA Policy Toward China: The New Agenda.”
Peng Er Lam, editor, Japan’s
Relations With China: Facing a Rising Power. London: Routledge,
2005, pp.125-148.
- Editor & contributor, The
Challenge of Change: East Asia in the New Millennium, Research Papers and Policy
Studies, 44 (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, UC
Berkeley, 2003).
"Japan Sea Regionalism: the Role of Sub-National
Authorities" in Globalization and Regionalization: The Building of
Cross-Border Regions (N. Sum and M. Perkmann, eds., Routledge,
2001)
- "Japanese Policy toward China: In Search of a
Strategic Partnership" in The Asia-Pacific in the New Millennium:
Geopolitics, Security, and Foreign Policy (S. Sharma, ed.,
Institute of East Asian Studies, 2000)
- "Economic Cooperation in the Region Where China,
Russia, and North Korea Meet," Japanese Policy Research Institute
Working Paper No. 53, January 1999
"Political Reform in Japan: Is It Becoming More
Democratic?" Japanese Policy Research Institute Working Paper
No. 42, February 1998
- "Shifting Pattern in Japan's Economic Cooperation in
East Asia: A Growing Role for Local Actors?" Asian Perspective,
v. 21, no. 1, Spring-Summer 1997
Buying Power: The Political Economy of Japanese Foreign Aid (Lynne Rienner, 1995)
- Awards and Honors
- US State Department Speaker Grant—Korea, August 2004
US State Department Speaker Grant—China, April 2004
U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission Grant, 1999
- Abe Research Fellowship Award, 1997-1998
- Advanced Research Grant, Social Science Research Council, 1994
- Hewlett Foundation International Policy Research Grant, 1994
- Dissertation Research Fellowship, The Japan Foundation, 1987-1988
- Japanese Studies Fellowship, The Japan Foundation, 1986-1987