Publications
Monographs
Normalizing Japan: Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice. 2008. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Japan's New Defense Establishment: Institutions, Capabilities, and Implications. 2007. Washington, DC: Stimson Center. Co-editor with Yuki Tatsumi and contributor.
Can Japan Come Back? 2002. Los Angeles: Pacific Council on International Policy. Co-author with Pacific Council staff.
Culture in World Politics. 1998. London: Macmillan Press Ltd. & New York: St. Martin's Press. Co-editor and contributor with Dominique Jacquin-Berdal and Marco Verweij.
Culture in International Relations. 1993. Special Issue of Millennium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 22:3. Co-editor with Marco Verweij and Dominique Jacquin.
Chapters and Articles
The Domestic and International Politics of Constitutional Change in Japan. 2008. Education about Asia 12: 3 (Winter): 39-44.
Let's Debate: Active Learning Encourages Student Participation and Critical Thinking. 2007. Journal of Political Science Education 3: 3 (September): 293-311.
Explaining Japan's Tortured Course to Surveillance Satellites. 2007. Review of Policy Research 24: 1 (January): 29-48.
The United States and "Alliance" Role in Japan's New Defense Establishment. In Japan's New Defense Establishment: Institutions, Capabilities, and Implications, Yuki Tatsumi and Andrew Oros (eds), Washington, DC: Henry J. Stimson Center.
Japan's Evolving Defense Establishment (co-author with Yuki Tatsumi). In Japan's New Defense Establishment: Institutions, Capabilities, and Implications, Yuki Tatsumi and Andrew Oros (eds), Washington, DC: Henry J. Stimson Center.
Godzilla's Return: The New Nuclear Politics in an Insecure Japan. 2003. In Japan's Nuclear Option: Security, Politics, and Policy in the 21st Century, Benjamin Self and Jeffrey Thompson (eds), Washington, DC: Henry J. Stimson Center.
Japan's Growing Intelligence Capability. 2002. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 15: 1 (January): 1-25.
Culture in World Politics: An Introduction. 1998. Culture in World Politics. London: Macmillan Press Ltd. & New York: St. Martin's Press. With Dominique Jacquin-Berdal and Marco Verweij.
Asian Values or Asian Ideology? The Role of Culture in the International Relations of East Asia. 1995. Journal of Public and International Affairs 6: 129-47.
Commentary
The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Electoral Politics. 2008. Northeast Asia Commentary (January) Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
Listening to the People: Japanese Democracy and the New Security Agenda. 2007. Washington, DC: Mansfield Foundation. http://www.mansfieldfdn.org/polls/commentary-07-3.htm
Betting on a Bolder Japan. 2005. The Japan Times (September 15) Co-author with Steve Clemons.
Nihon no Fukkatsu no Ne ni Chumoku [Important Points for Japan's Recovery]. 2002. Nihon Keizai Shimbun. December 27. Co-author with Abraham Lowenthal.
Review Articles
Japanese Foreign Intelligence-Related Activities. 1999. Intelligence and National Security 14:3 (Fall): 235-43.
Bureaucrats and Politicians in Japan's Political Economy. 1998. Japan Forum 10: 2: 221-30.
Book Reviews
Japan's Economic Power and Security: Japan and North Korea (1999) by Christopher W. Hughes. Japanese Journal of Political Science 1:1 (2000): 167-68.
From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima: The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, 1941-45 (1994) by Saki Dockrill (ed.); Japan and East Asia: Documentary Analyses 1921- 45 (1995) by Stuart Kirby; The Pacific Basin Since 1945 (1994) by Roger C. Thompson. Millennium 25:1 (1996): 178-81.
Rising Sun (1992) by Michael Crichton. Millennium 21:3 (1992): 519-20.
The New Europe Asserts Itself: A Changing Role in International Relations (1991) by Beverly Crawford and Peter W. Schulze (eds). Millennium 21:2 (1992): 266-68.
Selected Conference Papers
Influential Friends: The “American Agenda” and Japan’s Growing Role in the East Asian Security Order. 2007. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 31.
External Actors and State Identity: Securing Japan through Missile Defense. 2006. Asian Studies Conference Japan. International Christian University, Tokyo. June 24.
Encouraging Student Participation through the Use of Structured Debate in Undergraduate Political Science Courses. 2005. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 1-5.
The New Politics of Antimilitarism: Explaining Japan's Development of Surveillance Satellite Capabilities. 2005. Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Honolulu, March 1-5.
Godzilla's Return: The New Nuclear Politics in an Insecure Japan. 2003. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 27-30.
Japan's Response to September 11 and the Continuing Politics of Domestic Antimilitarism in the 21st Century. 2003. Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, New York, March 27-30.
Japan's Nuclear Options: International Crises and Domestic Politics in the Twenty-first Century. 2003. Workshop on Japan's Nuclear Options. Stimson Center. Washington, DC, February 12.
The Political Origins of Japan's "Domestic Antimilitarist" Identity. 2002. Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, March 24-27.
Multilateral Governance and Japan's New Regional Grand Vision: Policies towards APEC and ARF. 2001. Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, March 21-25.
Japan's Recent Foreign Intelligence-Related Activities: Institutional Evolution in Post-Cold War Japan. 2001. Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Chicago Hilton Hotel and Towers, February 20-24.
Japanese Security Norms versus Realpolitik: A Coming Collision between Japan's Arms Export Ban and TMD?. 2000. Monthly Meeting of the Social Science Research Group, German Institute of Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan, July 11.
Grand Visions of the State: The Politics of National Identity in Japanese Security Policy. 1999. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta Hilton Towers and Marriott Marquis, September 2-5 & Monthly Meeting of the Social Science Research Group, German Institute of Japanese Studies, Tokyo, June 30.
Change and Continuity in Japan's Foreign Intelligence-Related Activities: Institutional Evolution in Post-Cold War Japan. 1998. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place and Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers, September 3-6 & Monthly Meeting of the Ph.D Kenkyû-kai, International House of Japan, Tokyo, August 10.