Richard J. Samuels is an American academic, political scientist, author, Japanologist, Ford Professor of Political Science and Director of Center for International Studies

MIT Center for International Studies

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 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Career

Samuels's teaching career at MIT has been interrupted periodically for experience as a visiting professor in Tokyo, Stockholm, Yale and elsewhere. He served as Head of the MIT Department of Political Science between 1992 and 1997.

Currently Samuels is Director of MIT Center for International Studies

MIT Center for International Studies

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Select works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Richard Samuels, OCLC

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 encompasses roughly 90+ publications in 4 languages and 3,000+ library holdings

• The politics of regional policy in Japan: localities incorporated (1983)
• Getting America ready for Japanese science and technology (1986)
• The business of the Japanese state: energy markets in comparative and historical perspective (1987)
• The Political culture of foreign area and international studies: essays in honor of Lucian W. Pye (1992)
• Rich nation, strong Army: national security and the technological transformation of Japan (1994)
• Machiavelli's children: leaders and their legacies in Italy and Japan (2003)
• Crisis and innovation in Asian technology (2003)
• Encyclopedia of United States national security (2006)
• Securing Japan: Tokyo's grand strategy and the future of East Asia (2007)

Chapters and papers

• "Kishi and Corruption: An Anatomy of the 1955 System," University of San Francisco Japan Policy Research Institute, Working Paper No. 83. December 2001.

Honors

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.James Bowdoin, John Adams, and...
  
  , 2005.
• Jervis-Schroeder Prize, 2004.
• Edwin McClellan
  Edwin McClellan
  Edwin McClellan was a British Japanologist. He was an academic—a scholar, teacher, writer, translator and interpreter of Japanese literature and culture.-Biography:...
  
   Visiting Fellow in Japanese Studies, Yale, 2004.
• Association for Asian Studies
  Association for Asian Studies
  The Association for Asian Studies is a U.S. society focused on facilitating contact and information exchange among scholars of Asian fields. It is the self-proclaimed largest society of its kind. The Association consists of eminent Asianists, and is a non-profit organization...
  
  , John Whitney Hall Book Prize
  John Whitney Hall Book Prize
  The John Whitney Hall Book Prize has been awarded annually since 1994 by the Association for Asian Studies . Pioneer Japanese studies scholar John Whitney Hall is commemorated in the name of this prize....
  
  , 1994.
• Council on Foreign Relations
  Council on Foreign Relations
  The Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs...
  
  , 1992-
• Fullbright Fellowships: 1991-1992, 1983–1984, 1977–1978

External links

• MIT, Curriculum vitae
• Japan after Kan: Implications for the DPJ’s Political Future, Q&A with Richard J. Samuels (August 2011)