The Center for Global Partnership

Keiko Funabashi, Professor

Shizuoka University

"The Effects of Family Policies on

Gender Relations: A Comparative

Study of the United States, Sweden,

France and Japan"

Tom Ginsburg, Professor

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"The Politics of Legal Reform in Northeast

Asia"

Jacques Hymans, Assistant Professor

Smith College

"The Emergence and Persistence of the

Non-Nuclear Weapons State Club: A

Theoretical and Empirical Analysis"

Miho Iwasawa, Senior Research Fellow

National Institute of Population and Social

Security Research

"The Retreat from Marriage in Japan and

the U.S. - Later Marriage, Divorce,

Nonmarital Childbearing and the

Well-being of Mothers and Children"

Yuko Kawanishi, Professor

Tokyo Gakugei University
"Midlife Depression and Social Interventions in

the United States: Lessons for Japan"

Naoki Kondo, Assistant Professor

Yamanashi University
"Effects of Social Disparities on Health

in Industrialized Countries: U.S.-Japan

Comparisons"

Barak Kushner, Lecturer

Cambridge University

"Cold War Propaganda in East Asia and

Historical Memory"

Megumi Naoi, Assistant Professor

University of California, San Diego
"Mobilizing Consumers: The Politics of Food

Safety in the Global Economy"

Tomoko Okagaki, Senior Research Fellow

National Institute for Defense Studies

"Polarity, Polity, and Perceptions: Changing

Sources of Stability in the Japan-U.S. Alliance"

Eiji Okano, Assistant Professor

Chiba Keizai University
"The Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy Mix in

Economies with Twin Deficits and Twin

Divergence"

Kim Reinmann, Assistant Professor

Georgia State University
"NGOs, Transnational Networks and Regional

Governance in East Asia"

Apichai Shipper, Assistant Professor

University of Southern California

"Immigrations Politics in Japan, the U.S., and

Sweden"

Rodney Smith, Associate Professor

University of Minnesota -Twin Cities
"The Economics of Transboundary and

Transnational Water Conflicts, and their

LInks to Economic Growth"