Michael R. Auslin

Michael Auslin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., where he is concurrently a resident scholar in Asian Studies and the director of Japan Studies. He is also a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, writing about Asia and global security. He specializes in global risk analysis, U.S. defense and foreign policy, security and political relations in the Indo-Pacific region, and global airpower and maritime issues.

Dr. Auslin was an associate professor of history at Yale University prior to joining AEI. He also has been a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo. He received the Nakasone Yasuhiro Award for Excellence in 2010, and has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a Marshall Memorial Fellow by the German Marshall Fund, and an Asia 21 Fellow by the Asia Society, in addition to being a former Fulbright and Japan Foundation Scholar.

Dr. Auslin’s books include The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region (Yale University Press, forthcoming) and Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations (Harvard University Press, 2011). In addition to being published in leading media outlets, he comments regularly for U.S. and foreign broadcast media, including BBC and Fox News. He received a BSc from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and his PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He lives outside of Washington, D.C., with his family.