Phillip Y. Lipscy 1 Devonshire Place Toronto, ON M5S-3K7 +1-(416)-978-8029 [email protected]

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

2019- University of Toronto, Toronto, ON • Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy • Chair in Japanese Politics & Global Affairs • Director, Centre for the Study of Global • Affiliations: Asian Institute, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Centre for the Study of the United States, The Belt and Road in Global Perspective

2008-2019 Stanford University, Stanford, CA • Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science • Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

EDUCATION:

2002-2008 , Cambridge, MA. • Ph.D. in Political Science, Department of Government • Dissertation: Outside Options and Change in International Organizations • Dissertation Committee: Lisa Martin (Chair), Jeffry Frieden, Andrew Kydd Susan Pharr, Beth Simmons

1997-2002 Stanford University, Stanford, CA. • M.A. in International Policy Studies, June 2002. • B.A. in Economics and Political Science with Honors and Distinction, June 2001 • Secondary Major in International Relations • Thesis Advisor: Daniel Okimoto

OTHER CURRENT AFFILIATIONS:

2021- Harvard University, Faculty Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations 2018- Johns Hopkins SAIS, Fellow, Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy 2013- U.S.-Japan Council, Council Leader

PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS:

Books

The Institutional Politics of Energy and Climate Change, book manuscript (Introduction)

Renegotiating the World Order: Institutional Change in International Relations. 2017. Cambridge University Press.

Volumes

The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms (ed. with Takeo Hoshi). 2021. Cambridge University Press.

Japan under the DPJ: The Politics of Transition and Governance (ed. with Kenji Kushida). 2013. Shorenstein APARC and Press.

Academic Journal Articles

“COVID-19 and the Politics of Crisis.” 2020. International Organization 74 (S1): E98-E127.

“How Do States Renegotiate International Institutions? Japan’s Renegotiation Diplomacy Since World War II.” 2020. Global Policy 11 (S3): 17-27.

“The IMF as a Biased Global Insurance Mechanism: Asymmetrical Moral Hazard, Reserve Accumulation, and Financial Crises” (with Haillie Lee) 2019. International Organization 73 (1): 35-64.

“Democracy and Financial Crisis” 2018. International Organization 72 (4): 937-968.

“The Politics of Energy and Climate Change in Japan under Abe: Abenergynomics” (with Trevor Incerti) 2018, Asian Survey 58 (4): 607-634.

“Explaining Institutional Change: Policy Areas, Outside Options, and the Bretton Woods Institutions.” 2015. American Journal of Political Science 59 (2): 341-356.

“The Politics of Energy.” (with Llewelyn Hughes). 2013. Annual Review of Political Science 16 (1): 449-469.

“The Politics of Financial Crisis Response in Japan and the United States” (with Hirofumi Takinami). 2013. Japanese Journal of Political Science 14 (3).

“Energy Efficiency in the Japanese Transport Sector.” 2013. (with Lee Schipper). Energy Policy. 56 (May): 248-258.

“The Fukushima Disaster and Japan’s Nuclear Plant Vulnerability in Comparative Perspective.” (with Kenji Kushida and Trevor Incerti). 2013. Environmental Science and Technology 47 (May): 6082-6088 (cover article).

“A Casualty of Political Transformation? The Politics of Japanese Energy Efficiency in the Transportation Sector.” 2012. Journal of East Asian Studies 12:3.

“Japan under the DPJ: The Paradox of Political Change without Policy Change” (with Ethan Scheiner). 2012. Journal of East Asian Studies 12:3.

“Japan's Asian Monetary Fund Proposal.” 2003. Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs 3 (Spring): 93-104.

Book Chapters

“International Assessments and Education Policy: Evidence from an Elite Survey.” (with Rie Kijima) 2020. In Judith Kelley and Beth Simmons eds. The Power of Global Performance Indicators. Cambridge University Press.

“Japan and International Organizations.” (with Nobuhiko Tamaki) 2020. In Robert J. Pekkanen and Saadia M. Pekkanen eds. Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics. Oxford University Press.

“Reformist Status Quo Power: Japan’s Approach toward International Organizations.” 2020. In G. John Ikenberry and Yoichi Funabashi eds. The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism: Japan and the World Order, Brookings Institution Press.

“The Energy Politics of Japan.” (with Trevor Incerti). 2020. In Kathleen J. Hancock and Juliann Emmons Allison eds. Oxford Handbook on Energy Politics. Oxford University Press.

“Were Japan’s Nuclear Plants Uniquely Vulnerable?” (with Kenji E. Kushida and Trevor Incerti). 2016. In Edward Blandford and Scott D. Sagan eds., Learning from Fukushima: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Accidents, Stanford University Press.

“DPJ Election Strategy: The Dilemma of Landslide Victory.” 2016. In Yoichi Funabashi and Koichi eds., The Democratic Party of Japan in Power: Challenges and Failures. Routledge.

“福島原発事故の定量分析：国際比較の視点から (Quantitative Analysis of the Fukushima Power Plant Accident: An International Perspective),” 2016, in Yutaka Tsujinaka ed., 東日本大 震災学術調査：「政治過程と政策」(Scientific Investigation of the Great East Japan Earthquake). Toyo Keizai Shinposha.

“The Rise and Fall of the Democratic Party of Japan.” (with Kenji Kushida). 2013. In Kenji Kushida and Phillip Lipscy eds. Japan Under the DPJ: The Politics of Transition and Governance. Shorenstein APARC/Brookings Institution Press.

“選挙戦略：大勝と惨敗を生んだジレンマ (Electoral Strategy: The Dilemma of Landslide Victories and Defeats).” 2013. In Koichi Nakano ed. 民主党政権 失敗の検証 - 日本政治は何 を活かすか (Analysis and Lessons from the Government of the Democratic Party of Japan). Tokyo, Japan: Chuo Koron.

“ナショナリズムではなく科学進歩で国をまとめよ(安倍内閣への提言) (Recommendations on the Foreign Policy of the Abe Government).” 2013. 外交 (Diplomacy) 18 (March), 45-50.

“Japan's Shifting Role in International Organizations.” 2008. In Masaru Kohno and Frances Rosenbluth, eds. Japan and the World: Japan's Contemporary Geopolitical Challenges. New Haven: Yale University Council on East Asian Studies, 2008.

Policy Articles

“The US and Japan Must Lead on Climate Cooperation” (with Mary McCarthy). 2021. The Diplomat. April 19.

“Japan and International Organizations in the Liberal International Order.” 2020. In Yves Tiberghien ed., Japan’s Leadership in the Liberal International Order: Impact and Policy Opportunities for Partners.

“It’s Too Soon to Call Coronavirus Winners and Losers.” 2020. Foreign Policy, May 12.

“Japan’s Opportunity to Lead” (with Daniel Aldrich and Mary McCarthy). 2019. Nature Climate Change 9: 492.

“The Trump Tower Peace Theory: Why Donald Trump's Real Estate Holdings Abroad are So Dangerous for Americans at Home.” 2017. Foreign Policy, June 22.

“Trump and Abe are Natural Allies,” The Diplomat, 2/9/2017.

“Who's Afraid of the AIIB?: Why the United States Should Support China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.” 2015. Foreign Affairs, May 7.

“The Land of the Sinking Sun: Is Japan’s military weakness putting America in danger?” (with Philippe de Koning). 2013. Foreign Policy. July 30.

“US-Japan Cooperation on the Reform of International Organizations.” 2011. JCIE US- Japan Papers, December.

Toward a Theory of Intelligence (with Gregory Treverton, Seth Jones, and Steve Boraz). 2006. RAND: Santa Monica.

Working Papers

“Japan Transformed? The Foreign Policy Legacy of the Abe Government.” (with Adam P. Liff), Forthcoming, Journal of Japanese Studies.

“Producer Power or Energy Policy? The Effect of Electoral Systems on Prices” Revise & Resubmit, British Journal of Political Science.

“Japan: The Harbinger State,” paper presented at Japan in the World: A Symposium in Honor of Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University, 5/25/2021.

“Competition and Regime Complex Architecture: Authority Relations and Differentiation in International Education.” (with Rie Kijima), paper presented at Workshop on International Regime Complexity, American & Yale University, 12/10/2020.

“The Political Economy of International Reserve Accumulation: Self-Insurance or Mercantilism?” (with Haillie Lee), paper presented at East Asian Financial Governance Workshop, Boston University, 2018

“Democracy and the Volatility of Economic Growth.” Paper presented at the 2018 Pacific International Politics Conference, Hong Kong.

“The Open Access International Order.” (with Adam Liff) Paper presented at annual meeting of International Studies Association, Toronto, 2019.

“The Institutional Sources of Energy Transitions: From the Oil Crises to Climate Policy,” (with Jared Finnegan, Jonas Mecking, Florence Metz), paper presented at the Workshop on the Comparative Politics of Climate Change Policy, Stanford University, 2020.

“The Politics of International Testing” (with Rie Kijima), paper presented at the “Assessment Power in World Politics” conference, Harvard University, 2016

“The Electoral Politics of Energy”

“The Dark Side of Democratic Advantage: International Crises and Secret Agreements” (with Yevgeniy Kirpichevsky).

“Congressional Preferences and the Structure of Delegation: Reassessing the Effect of Divided Government on U.S. Trade Policy” (with Yevgeniy Kirpichevsky).

“Resilience or Retrenchment?: Japanese Security in the Era of Fiscal Austerity” (with Philippe de Koning).

MEDIA / OPEDS (SELECTED):

• Analysis, Washington Post Monkey Cage. “Nobody can go to the Tokyo Olympics. So why is the government going ahead with them?” 7/19/2021. (with Daniel Smith) • Analysis, Washington Post Monkey Cage. “President Biden is hosting Japan’s prime minister in D.C. It’s a big deal for Japan — and the U.S.” 4/15/2021. (with Mary McCarthy) • Oped, Japan Times. “How to Decarbonize Japan.” 1/20/2021. (with Daniel Aldrich) • Analysis, Washington Post Monkey Cage. “Japan’s Prime Minister is Resigning. This is how Abe Transformed Japanese Politics,” 9/3/2020. • Interview, Bungei Shunju (Japan), “The Japan Covid Conundrum.” 5/20/2020. • Interview, Economist, “Japan is not Rallying around its Prime Minister.” 5/18/2020. • Interview, New York Times, “2 Cabinet Ministers Resigned in Japan. Their Downfall? Melons and Potatoes.” 11/1/2019 • Interview, Voice Magazine (Japan), “Remaining Tasks for the Abe Government” 10/10/2019 • Oped, Asahi Shimbun (Japan), “Japan’s Climate Change Policies in Retreat,” 5/22/2019. (with Daniel Aldrich and Mary McCarthy). • Interview, Bloomberg, Asian Monetary Fund and China, 5/11/2018. • Oped, “The Folly of UNESCO Withdrawal,” The Hill, 10/18/2017. • “Asia Policy Challenges Facing Next U.S. Administration: Global Governance,” Toyo Keizai, 11/4/2016 • Guest Speaker, Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, “Can the Democratic Party of Japan Rise Again?” 11/28/2013. • Guest Speaker, Japan National Press Club, U.S. Perspective on Japanese Politics, 11/27/2013. • Interview, Toyo Keizai (Japan), Asia Policy of US Administration, 11/4/2016. • Interview, People’s Daily (China), Regional security issues, 8/5/2013. • Oped (with Kenji Kushida and Trevor Incerti). Washington Post, “Protecting Nuclear Plants from Nature’s Worst,” 10/31/2012. • Interview, Los Angeles Times, “U.S., China File Dueling Complaints as Trade Tensions Heat Up,” 9/18/2012. • Interview, Globe & Mail (Canada), US and Japan Financial Crises, 8/8/2011. • Interview, Dow Jones Newswires, “It's Still Early for an Asian Monetary Fund” 4/1/2009. • Oped, Christian Science Monitor, “Global Financial Reformers Must Heed Asia's Clout,” 10/28/2008.

TEACHING:

University of Toronto (2019-) • Bilateral Diplomacy • Theories of International Organization • Japanese Politics • The Rise of Asia

Stanford University (2007-2019) • International Organizations • International Organizations and the World Order (Freshman Seminar) • International Relations Theory, Part II (Graduate Seminar in Political Economy) • International Relations Theory, Part III (Graduate Seminar on Research) • Japan and the World • Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy • Political Economy of East Asia • Political Economy of Financial Crises • Politics of Energy (Sophomore Seminar) • The Rise of Asia

Waseda University (2017) • Advanced Topics in Political Science: International Relations

Harvard University (2004-2006; Teaching Fellow and Head Teaching Fellow) • Sophomore Tutorial in Comparative Politics and International Relations • International Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern World (Thomas Oatley) • The Modern World Economy (Jeffry Frieden)

Stanford University (1999-2002; Teaching Assistant) • Introduction to Economics (Michael Boskin and Marcelo Clerici-Arias) • Honors College (Ronald Mitchell) • Sophomore College (Daniel Okimoto)

UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, University of Toronto, 2019-present Co-Organizer, Japanese Politics Online Seminar Series, 2020-present Steering Committee Member, Northeast Workshop in Japanese Politics, 2020-present Admissions Committee, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, 2020-2021 Internal Teaching Evaluation Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, 2020 Internal Teaching Evaluation Committee, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, 2020 Co-Organizer, Stanford Juku on Japanese Political Economy, 2012-2019 Advisory Board Member, Reischauer Scholars Program (Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education), 2010-2019 Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee, 2017-2019 Japan Fund Committee, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, 2007-2011, 2018 Freshman Advisor, Stanford University, 2011-2016 Admissions Committee, Department of Political Science, Stanford University, 2007-2008, 2008- 2009, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2013-2014, 2014-2015 Performance Review Committee, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, 2015 Reviewer, Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, Harvard University Program on US-Japan Relations, 2016, 2020 Graduate Program Review Committee, Department of Political Science, Stanford University, 2014- 2015 Field Convener for International Relations, Department of Political Science, Stanford University, 2008-2009, 2013-2014 Omnibus Search Committee, Department of Political Science, Stanford University, 2012-2013 Academic Advisory Group Member, Stanford Project on Japanese Entrepreneurship (Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship), 2009-2013 Selection Committee, East Asia Internships, Division of International, Comparative & Area Studies, Stanford University, 2012-2013 Interdisciplinary Search Committee for Perry Chair & Takahashi Chair, Stanford University, 2009- 2010, 2010-2011 Shorenstein APARC Search Committee for Takahashi Fellow, Stanford University, 2007-2008, 2010-2011

REVIEWER FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS:

American Journal of Political Science American Political Science Review Asia Pacific Perspectives Asian Security British Journal of Political Science Energy Policy Energy Research & Social Science Frontiers in Energy International Organization International Relations of the Asia Pacific International Studies Quarterly International Theory Japanese Journal of Political Science Japanese Political Economy Journal of Common Market Studies Journal of East Asian Studies Journal of Politics Pacific Review Perspectives on Politics Political Science Quarterly Public Opinion Quarterly Review of International Political Economy Review of International Organizations Social Science Japan Journal

PREVIOUS AFFILIATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

2015-2016 Visiting Research Fellow and Abe Fellow, 2013, 2019 Project Member, Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation 2011 Young Scholar Delegation, Taiwan 2010-2012 U.S.-Japan Network for the Future, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation 2008 Research Team Member, Japan Center for International Exchange 2007 Japan-U.S. Emerging Leaders Program, Government of Japan 2006 Visiting Scholar, The Institute for Global and International Studies, GWU. 2005-2006 Resident Tutor, Cabot House, Harvard University 2003-2006 Research Assistant, Harvard University (Margarita Estevez-Abe; Lisa Martin) 2005 Summer Associate, The RAND Corporation 2004-2005 Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University 2003-2004 Assistant Editor, International Organization (Academic Journal) 2002 Consultant, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) 2000-2001 Research Assistant, Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University 2000 Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of International Policy Studies (IIPS) 2000 Intern, Office of International Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department 1999 Resident Assistant, Sophomore College, Stanford University

GRANTS AND HONORS:

• Global Classrooms Funding Initiative Award, University of Toronto (2021).

• Excellence Award, University of Toronto (2019-2020).

• Shorenstein APARC Faculty Research Award (2017-2019).

• Research Grant, Stanford University Japan Fund (2017-2018; 2011-2012; 2010- 2011; 2008-2009).

• Abe Fellowship, Social Science Research Council (2015-2017).

• Global Development and Poverty Exploratory Award, Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies & the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (2015).

• UPS Foundation Award, Stanford University (2011-2015).

• Research Grant, Shorenstein APARC Strategic Plan (2011-2014).

• Hellman Faculty Scholar, Stanford University (2010-2011).

• Research Grant, Stanford Society for Fellows in Japanese Studies (2010-2011).

• Center for Global Partnership Grant, Japan Foundation (2009-2010).

• Sakurako & William Fisher Family Faculty Scholar, Stanford University (2009- 2011).

• Japan Fellowship, Center for Strategic and International Studies (2009).

• Research Grant, FSI Takahashi Fund (2008).

• Supplementary Dissertation Grant, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University (2006-2007).

• Akiyama Award, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University (2006).

• Summer Research Grant, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University (2006).

• Predissertation Fellowship, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (2005).

• Graduate Student Associate and Research Grant, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (2005).

• Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Fellowship (2003)

• Harvard Graduate Society Summer Award (2003)

• Finalist, Presidential Management Intern Program (2002).

• Firestone Medal for Excellence in Research – Best Honors Thesis in Political Science in 2001 at Stanford.

• Phi Beta Kappa (elected Junior Year, 2000) – academically among top 2% of Stanford Class of 2001.

• Stanford in Government International Fellowship (2000)

• Ai Isayama Scholarship, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University (1999).

• Stanford President’s Scholar (1997)

SKILLS:

• Native Fluency in Japanese as a spoken and written language. Basic Mandarin Chinese.

• Programming Languages: C++, Java, HTML.

• Statistical Packages: R, Stata.