Andrew L. Oros
Director of International Studies
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies
aoros2@washcoll.edu
Phone: 410-810-7436 | Fax: 410-810-7170
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:45-4:30, and by appointment
Andrew Oros is a specialist on the international and comparative politics of East Asia and the advanced industrial democracies, with an emphasis on contending approaches to managing security. He is author of Normalizing Japan: Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice (Stanford University Press, 2008), co-author of Global Security Watch: Japan (Praeger Press, 2010), as well as over a dozen scholarly articles and book chapters.
His current research examines prospects for China-Japan-US security cooperation, funded in part by a Japan Foundation Abe Fellowship which underwrote visiting professorships in 2010-11 at Peking University in China and Keio University in Japan.
He also serves as Director of the first-year student Global Perspectives: Research and Writing seminar program and as Treasurer of Phi Beta Kappa at Washington College.