Michael Robert Auslin (born 17 March 1967) is an American writer,

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, and scholar of Asia. He is currently the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the

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, Stanford University, a Senior Fellow in the Asia and National Security Programs at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and a senior fellow at London's Policy Exchange. He was formerly an associate professor at

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and a resident scholar and director of Japanese studies at the

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, a

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in Washington, D.C.American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
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Early life

Auslin grew up in suburban

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. He lived and worked in Japan as an

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on the

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Career

Auslin was an assistant professor (2000–2006) and then associate professor (2006–2007) in the Department of History at Yale University. 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.Library of Congress (LOC):
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and in 2009 was a visiting professor in the Faculty of Law at

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. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2018, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and a Marshall Memorial Fellow while a professor at Yale. In addition, he was a Fulbright Scholar and Japan Foundation Scholar while in graduate school. Auslin is the Senior Advisor for Asia at th
Halifax International Security Forum
He currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Wilton Park USA Foundation. Auslin was a regular columnist for the ''Wall Street Journal'', writing on Asia, in addition to publishing in leading media such as ''The Atlantic', Foreign Affairs', Foreign Policy', National Review'', and ''The Spectator'', among others. He has been a commentator on

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, and for other media outlets, including ''The News Hour''. He was a featured commentator and script consultant in the 2004

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series "Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire".

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In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Michael Auslin,

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encompasses roughly eight works in over thirty publications in one language and 100+ library holdings. * 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 &mdash
''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. ; * 2004 &mdash
''Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy.''
Cambridge:

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. ; ;Journals
''The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents,''
''The Historian,'' Vol. 61, 1999.

Honors

*Fellow,

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Young Global Leader Forum of Young Global Leaders, or Young Global Leaders (YGL), was created by Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum. The YGL, a non-profit organization managed from Geneva, Switzerland, is under the supervision of the Swiss government ...

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* Japan Foundation fellow * Asia Society Asia 21 Fellow * Marshall fellow *

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Prize for Excellence, Institute for International Policy Studies,

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and Michael Auslin, 2007
Interview
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