Speaker: Richard J. Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science, MIT Richard J. Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Director of MIT's Center for International Studies, and Founding Director of the MIT Japan Program. In 2001 he became Chairman of the Japan-US Friendship Commission, an independent Federal grant-making agency that supports Japanese studies and policy-oriented research in the US. In 2005, Professor Samuels was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Samuels served as Head of the MIT Department of Political Science from 1992 to 1997 and as Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Japan of the National Research Council until 1996. Grants from the Fulbright Commission, the Abe Fellowship Fund, the National Science Foundation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation, have supported eight years of field research in Japan. Professor Samuels's latest book, Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan (Cornell Univ. Press, 2003), a comparative political and economic history of political leadership in Italy and Japan, won the 2003 Marraro prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the 2004 Jervis-Schroeder Prize for the best book in International History and Politics, awarded annually by the International History and Politics section of the American Political Science Association. His book "Rich Nation, Strong Army": National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan (Cornell Univ. Press, 1994) won the 1996 John Whitney Hall Prize of the Association of Asian Studies and the 1996 Arisawa Memorial Prize of the Association of American University Presses. His book The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective (Cornell Univ. Press, 1988) received the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. In 1983, Princeton Univ. Press published his book Politics of Regional Policy in Japan. Your ticket for admission to Richard Samuels's presentation "How Leaders Matter" will be a copy of Machiavelli's Children, bought from Good Day Books. Paperback copies of Machiavelli's Children may be purchased at Good Day Books for four thousand two hundred yen („4200) each, tax included, while our supply lasts. (SOLD OUT) |
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