Shinju Fujihira

International Relations, Comparative Politics, Asia
Lecturer
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2000

Biography

Shinju Fujihira is a Lecturer in Political Science at Tufts, and teaches courses on comparative politics, comparative political economy, and politics in Western Europe and Japan. His research interests focus on the political economy of national security, comparative politics of advanced industrial democracies, and Japanese political economy and national security. He is the author of "Financing Warfare: Lessons from Imperial Japan" (USJP Occasional Paper 03-03, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, 2003) and "From Shenyang to Pyongyang: Japan's Diplomatic Trials in Northeast Asia" Harvard Asia Quarterly (Autumn 2002). His book manuscript, Conscripting Money: Democratization, Financial Power, and State-Building in World Politics, investigates the effects of political regime types on financial power creation and examines the cases of Imperial Japan, Imperial and Nazi Germany, Imperial and Soviet Russia, Great Britain, and the United States since the late nineteenth century.

Professor Fujihira has been an Advanced Research Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University (2002-2003); National Security Fellow, John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University (1999-2000); pre-doctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1997-1998); and pre-doctoral fellow in the Sawyer Program of the Andrew Mellow Foundation at Princeton University (1997-1998). He also serves as the Associate Director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, at Harvard University.

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