Since 2011, Professor of International Politics, Hopkins-Nanjing Center of the Johns Hopkins U. School of Advanced International Studies in Nanjing, China. Previously was Professor of Politics in the Politics Department of Pomona College where he taught for 22 years. Also, Lecturer in the Dept. of Political Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies at the U. of London (1994-95), and Visiting Foreign Professor, School of Social Sciences, U. of Tsukuba. Author of Buying power: the political economy of Japan's foreign aid (1995), editor of four books including The Rise of China and Regional Order in East Asia (Palgrave, 2016); and The US-Japan Alliance: Balancing Soft and Hard Power in East Asia, which won the 2011 Ohira Memorial Foundation Prize. Ph.D., UC Berkeley (Political Science, 1989). M.A., The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (International Relations, 1982).A.B., Cornell U. (1977).