Michael Auslin
- Writer
- Historian
- Policy Analyst
Michael Robert Auslin (born 17 March 1967) is an American historian, writer, and policy analyst, known for his work on U.S-Asian relations. He is currently the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University[1] and was formerly an associate professor of history at Yale University. Since 2024, he has published The Patowmack Packet, a Substack containing articles on the history of Washington, D.C.
Early life and Education
Auslin grew up in suburban Chicago.[2] He graduated with a BSci from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in 1988; received a Master's Degree from the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1991; and was awarded a PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 2000. In 1991-92, he lived and worked in Japan as an Assistant Language Teacher on the JET Programme,[3] and he studied at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, in Yokohama, in 1995-96.
Career
Auslin was an assistant professor (2000–2006) and then associate professor (2006–2007) in the Department of History at Yale University.[4] In addition, he was also the founding director of the Project on Japan-U.S. Relations (2004–2007) and a senior research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies (2006–2007) at Yale.[5]
In 2005, he was a visiting researcher at the Graduate School of Law of Kobe University and in 2009 was a visiting professor in the Faculty of Law at Tokyo University.[4] After leaving Yale, he was a resident scholar and director of Japanese studies at the American Enterprise Institute, in Washington, D.C.[4] In 2017, he joined the Hoover Institution as the inaugural Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia. Auslin is the Senior Advisor for Asia at the Halifax International Security Forum,[6] a Senior Fellow in the Asia and National Security Programs at the Foreign Policy Research Institute,[7] and was a senior fellow at London's Policy Exchange.[8]
Auslin currently serves on the board of directors of the American Ditchley Foundation[9] and as the Vice Chair of the Wilton Park USA Foundation.[10]
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2018,[11] and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2006 and a Marshall Memorial Fellow while a professor at Yale.[12] In addition, he was a Fulbright Scholar and Japan Foundation Scholar while in graduate school.
Auslin has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,[13] the U.S House of Representatives Armed Services Committee,[14] and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.[15]
Media
Auslin was a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal,[16] writing on Asia, and continues to publish there as well as in The Atlantic[17], Foreign Affairs[18], Foreign Policy[19], National Review,[20] and The Spectator,[21] among others. He has been a commentator on Fox News, BBC, and for other media outlets, including The News Hour on PBS. He was a featured commentator and script consultant in the 2004 PBS series Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire[5] and for Netflix's Age of Samurai, in 2021.[22] Auslin hosted the Pacific Century podcast, in which he interviewed senior policymakers, journalists, historians, business leaders, and others on contemporary Asian issues.
Select works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Michael Auslin, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly eight works in over thirty publications in one language and 100+ library holdings.[23]
- 2024 — The Patowmack Packet Substack (an ongoing collection of articles on the history of Washington, D.C.)
- 2020 — Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific Stanford: Hoover Institution Press.
- 2017 — The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region New Haven: Yale University Press.
- 2011 — Pacific Cosmpolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- 2007 — Japan Society: Celebrating a Century 1907-2007 (with Edwin O. Reischauer). New York: Japan Society. ISBN 9780913304594; OCLC 85766283
- 2004 — Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01521-0; OCLC 56493769
- Journals
- The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents, The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999.
Honors
- Elected Fellow, Royal Historical Society
- Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum[24]
- Fulbright fellow[5]
- Japan Foundation fellow[5]
- Asia Society Asia 21 Fellow
- Marshall Memorial Fellow[25]
- Yasuhiro Nakasone Prize for Excellence, Institute for International Policy Studies, Tokyo[26]
Notes
- ^ "Michael R. Auslin". Hoover Institution.
- ^ Auslin, Michael R. "On Memorial Day, Remembering the Old Army Buddy," Washington Post. May 24, 2009.
- ^ Dooley, Ben (10 February 2011). "Former JETs defend program". Retrieved 27 August 2017 – via Japan Times Online.
- ^ a b c American Enterprise Institute (AEI): Auslin, bio notes
- ^ a b c d Library of Congress (LOC): Michael Auslin, bio notes
- ^ "Our Team". 5 April 2017.
- ^ "New FPRI Appointments - Foreign Policy Research Institute". fpri.org/. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ "Michael Auslin".
- ^ "American Board of Directors | Ditchley Foundation".
- ^ "Board members". Wilton Park. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
- ^ "Auslin Tapped As Royal Historical Society Fellow". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
- ^ "Yale Professor Named a Young Global Leader". YaleNews. 1 February 2006. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
- ^ ""Strengthening U.S. Alliances in Northeast Asia"" (PDF).
- ^ ""Rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific Region and Implications for U.S. National Security"" (PDF).
- ^ ""Hearing: China's New Leadership and Implications for the United States"".
- ^ "Michael Auslin - News, Articles, Biography, Photos - WSJ.com". WSJ. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
- ^ Michael Auslin. "Michael Auslin". The Atlantic. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
- ^ "Michael Auslin". Foreign Affairs. 1 August 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
- ^ Auslin, Michael. "Michael Auslin". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
- ^ "Michael Auslin". National Review. November 2013.
- ^ "Author: Michael Auslin". Coffee House. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
- ^ "Age of Samurai". Netflix.
- ^ "WorldCat Identities". www.oclc.org. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ "Yale Professor Named a Young Global Leader". YaleNews. 1 February 2006. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ "Michael Auslin named a Marshall Memorial Fellow," Yale Bulletin & Calendar, Vol. 35, No. 13. December 15, 2006.
- ^ "Recipients of the Sixth Nakasone Yasuhiro Award" (PDF). Institute for International Policy Studies. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
External links
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- The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
- Wilton Park
- Cosmos Club
- The Elizabethan Club
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Library of Congress webcast: Highlights of Japan-US relationship with Norman Mineta, Midori Goto, Naoyuki Agawa and Michael Auslin, 2007
- Interview with Auslin on "New Books in East Asian Studies"