Robert Uriu
rmuriu@uci.edu
Phone: (858) 534-9821
Fax: (858) 534-3939
Office: #1410
Personal Website
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1993 (political science)
M.A., M. Phil., M.I.A., Columbia University
B.A., UC Davis (international relations, japanese)
Biography
Robert Uriu is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of California at Irvine.
Professor Uriu is a specialist in international relations and international political economy. His region of expertise is East Asia, with an emphasis on Japan, U.S.-Japan relations, and American foreign policy toward East Asia. He has taught undergraduate- and graduate-level courses on the international relations of East Asia, the political economy of East Asia, and U.S. foreign policy in the region, as well as Japanese politics, political economy, and foreign policy.
Professor Uriu’s current research concerns the formation of U.S. trade policy toward Japan during the Clinton administration. His focus is on the impact of new policy ideas on the decision to pursue an explicitly results-oriented approach during the Framework negotiations, including the U.S. demand that Japan agree to include objective criteria and numerical targets in sectoral trade agreements. The results of this research, Changing Assumptions: The Impact of Revisionist Ideas on U.S.-Japan Trade Relations, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2008.
His past research focused on business-government relations, seen though the lens of the formulation of industrial policy in Japan, specifically its policy towards industries in economic distress. His first book, Troubled Industries: Confronting Economic Change in Japan, was published by Cornell University Press in 1996.
In 1996-97 Professor Uriu served as a Director of Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. While at the NSC he was involved in policy making toward all aspects of U.S.-Japan relations. He is a two-time Fulbright scholar. In 1996 he was awarded a Fulbright Grant for Research in Japan, as well as being named an International Affairs Fellow by the Council on Foreign Relations. His earlier research was funded by a grant from the Fulbright-Hays Commission and a dissertation write-up award from the Social Science Research Council. Professor Uriu has also been a Visiting Foreign Scholar at Keio University, the University of Tokyo, and Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
Prior to coming to UC Irvine he spent five years as an assistant professor at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia in 1993. His other degrees include an M.A. and M.Phil. from Columbia’s political science department, a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia’s School of International Affairs, and a B.A. in International Relations and Japanese from the University of California at Davis.
