Michael Auslin


Michael Robert Auslin is an American writer, policy analyst, historian, and scholar of Asia. He is currently the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, 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 Yale University and a resident scholar and director of Japanese studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.

Early life

Auslin grew up in suburban Chicago. He lived and worked in Japan as an Assistant Language Teacher on the JET Programme.

Career

Auslin was an assistant professor and then associate professor in the Department of History at Yale University. In addition, he was also the founding director of the Project on Japan-U.S. Relations and a senior research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.

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. 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 the . 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 Fox News, BBC, and for other media outlets, including The News Hour''. He was a featured commentator and script consultant in the 2004 PBS series "Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire".

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.
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