Lecturer
Shinju
Fujihira - Comparative Politics, Western Europe, East Asia
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2000
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.
In the second summer semester of 2007, Professor Fujihira will teach
PS188B: International Relations of East Asia.
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