Michael A. Barnhart
Department of History 160 West End Ave. #29-S SUNY at Stony Brook New York, NY 10023 Stony Brook, NY 11794 (631) 388-1948 (631) 632-7500 [email protected] [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1980 (History).
A.M., Harvard University, 1974 (History).
B.S. with highest distinction, Northwestern University, 1973 (Communications Studies).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook: Assistant Professor 1980-1986 Associate Professor 1986-1995 Professor 1995-2000 Distinguished Teaching Professor 2000-present
Graduate and undergraduate instruction in the history of American foreign relations and politics, American-East Asian relations, and modern Japanese history.
W. Averell Harriman College, SUNY-Stony Brook, 1981- . Graduate instruction in comparative institutions & international management.
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 1975-79. Tutorials for honors undergraduates in American history.
Technical Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974-79. Courses in modern world history.
Guest Lecturer, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 1976-77.
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
E Pluribus: A Political History of American Foreign Relations, 2 volumes. (in progress)
Can You Beat Churchill? Teaching History through Simulation, (under consideration, Cornell University Press)
"Domestic Politics, Interservice Impasse, and Japan's Decisions for War," History and Neorealism, eds. Ernest R. May, Richard Rosecrance, and Zara Steiner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010): 185-200.
“Nijiteki jiken: 1952-nen kara 68-nen ni okeru Beikoku no taigaikeizai seisaku to Nihon,” [“A Secondary Affair: America’s Foreign Economic policy and Japan, 1952-1968"] Amerika no tai-Nichi senryö seisaku to sono eikyö [American Occupation Policy toward Japan and Its Impact] eds. Yoneyuki Sugita and Mark Caprio (Akashi Books, 2004): 13-46.
“History as Victim: The Sorry State of the Study of US-Japanese Relations, 1900-1945,” A Companion to American Foreign Relations, ed., Robert D. Schulzinger. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2003): 121-133.
“From Hershey Bars to Motor Cars: America’s Economic Policy Toward Japan, 1945-1976,@ Partnership: The United States and Japan, 1951-2001, eds. Akira Iriye and Robert A. Wampler. (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2001): 201-222.
“Hirohito and His Army,” The International History Review 21 (September 1999): 696-703.
“Big Questions and Many Tongues: The World War and American Isolation,” Rethinking International Relations: Ernest R. May and the Study of World Affairs, ed. Akira Iriye. (Imprint Publications, 1998): 259-263.
“’Making It Easy for Him:’ The Imperial Japanese Navy and Franklin D. Roosevelt to Pearl Harbor,@ F.D.R. and the U.S. Navy, ed., Edward J. Marolda. (St. Martin’s Press, 1998): 35-46.
"The Origins of World War II in Asia and the Pacific," Diplomatic History 20 (Spring 1996): 241-260.
"Driven by Domestics: American Relations with Japan and Korea, 1900-1945," Pacific Passage: The Study of American-East Asian Relations on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century, ed. Warren I. Cohen. (Columbia University Press, 1996): 190-212.
Japan and the World since 1868. (London: Edwin Arnold Books Ltd., 1995).
"The Incomplete Alliance: America and Japan after World War II," Diplomatic History 18 (Fall 1993): 615-620.
“Nihon rikugun no shinchitsujokösö to kaisen kettei” ["The Imperial Army's New Order and Japan's Decision for War,"] Taiheiyö sensö [The Pacific War], eds. Hosoya Chihiro, Homma Nagayo, Akira Iriye, and Hatano Sumio. (University of Tokyo Press, 1993): 33-44.
"Hornbeck was Right: The Realist Approach to American Foreign Policy toward Japan," Pearl Harbor Re-examined, eds. Hilary Conroy and Harry Wray. (University of Hawaii Press, 1990), pp. 65-72.
Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941. (Cornell University Press, 1987).
Editor, Congress and United States Foreign Policy: Controlling the Use of Force in the Nuclear Age (State University of New York Press, 1987).
"The British Are Coming! Some Recent Trends in the Study of American-Japanese Relations," The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Newsletter, 15 (December 1984): 52-56.
"Japanese Intelligence before the Pacific War: 'Best Case' Analysis," Knowing One's Enemies: Intelligence Assessment before the Two World Wars, ed. Ernest R. May, (Princeton University Press, 3
1984), pp. 424-455.
"Japan's Drive to Autarky," Japan Examined, eds. Harry Wray and Hilary Conroy, (University of Hawaii Press, 1983), pp. 293-300.
"Planning the Pearl Harbor Attack: A Study in Military Politics," Aerospace Historian 29 (December 1982): 246-252.
REVIEWS
Dayna Barnes, Architects of Occupation: American Experts and the Planning for Postwar Japan. Review: H-DIPLO October 2018 http://www.tiny.cc/Roundtable-XX-7
Yoshikuni Igarashi, Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers. Journal of Japanese Studies 44 (Summer 2018): 506-509.
Lisa Yoneyama, Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes. The American Historical Review 123 (June 2018): 928-929.
Stuart Goldman, Nomonhan 1939: The Red Army’s Victory that Shaped World War II . War in History 22 (April 2015): 262 - 263.
Daqing Yang, Jie Liu, Hiroshi Mitani and Andrew Gordon, Toward a History Beyond Borders: Contentious Issues in Sino-Japanese Relations. The Journal of Asian Studies 72 (November 2013): 1006-1007.
Mark Peattie, Edward Drea, and Hans van de Ven, eds., Essays on the Military History of the Sino- Japanese War of 1937-1945. Journal of Japanese Studies 39 (June 2013): 469-472.
Michael Auslin, Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations. American Historical Review 117 (February 2012): 168.
Hiroshi Kitamura, Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan. Review: H-DIPLO October 2011 http://www.h- net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XIII-8.pdf
Jonathan Clements, Prince Saionji: Japan (Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath). Review: H-DIPLO September 2010 URL: http://www.h- net.org/~diplo/essays/PDF/Barnhart-Clements.pdf
Marc Gallicchio, The Scramble for Asia: US Military Power in the Aftermath of the Pacific War. Pacific Affairs 83 (June 2010): 360-361.
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Roger Dingman, Deciphering the Rising Sun: Navy and Marine Corps Codebreakers, Translators, and Interpreters in the Pacific War. The International History Review 32 (June 2010): 33-34.
Peter Mauch, “A Bolt From the Blue? New Evidence on the Japanese Navy and the Draft Understanding Between Japan and the United States, April 1941.” Pacific Historical Review 78 (February 2009): 55-79. Review: H-DIPLO March 2009 URL: http://www.h- net.org/~diplo/reviews/PDF/Barnhart-Mauch.pdf
Charles Schencking, Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922. The Journal of Japanese Studies 33 (Winter 2007): 288-9.
Sadao Asada, From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States. The International History Review 29 (September 2007): 625-6.
Paul A.C. Koistinen, Arsenal of World War II: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940- 1945. The American Historical Review 111 (October 2006): 1210-1.
Michael R. Auslin, Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. The International History Review 28 (March 2006): 183-5.
Francis J. Gavin, Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971. Diplomatic History 29 (November 2005): 875-877.
Ming Wan, Japan Between Asia and the West: Economic Power and Strategic Balance. Pacific Affairs 76 (Winter 2003-2004): 654-655.
Roger Buckley, The United States in the Asia-Pacific since 1945. Pacific Historical Review 72 (May 2003): 318-320.
Barbara J. Brooks, Japan’s Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China, 1895- 1938. American Historical Review 107 (December 2002): 1540-1.
Mark Peattie, Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941. The International History Review 24 (December 2002): 916-7.
Tim Maga, Judgement at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trials. The Journal of American History 88 (March 2002): 1591-2.
Justus D. Doenecke, Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941. Intelligence and National Security 16 (Autumn 2001): 168.
Frederick R. Dickinson, War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31 (Autumn 2000): 320-1. Barnhart, M. 5
Timothy P. Maga, Hands across the Sea? US-Japan Relations, 1961-1981. The International History Review 20 (December 1998): 1047-9.
John M. Jennings, The Opium Empire: Japanese Imperialism and Drug Trafficking in Asia, 1895- 1945, The American Historical Review 103 (October 1998): 1299-1300.
William R. Nester, Power across the Pacific: A Diplomatic History of American Relations with Japan, The International History Review 19 (November 1997): 920-2.
Chihiro Hosoya, ed., Nichi-Bei kankei tsushi; Yumi Hiwatari, Sengo seiji to Nichi-Bei kankei; Yoshihisa Hara, Nichi-Bei kankei no kozu: Ampo kaitei o kensho suru; Sadao Asada, Ryotaisen kan no Nichi-Bei kankei: Kaigun to seisaku kettei. The Journal of American History 83 (March 1997): 1477-9.
John Winton, Ultra in the Pacific: How Breaking Japanese Codes and Ciphers Affected Naval Operations Against Japan and John Ray Skates, The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb, Intelligence and National Security 11 (April 1996): 381-2.
Jonathan Marshall, To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War, The Journal of American History 82 (December 1995): 1274-5.
Richard J. Samuels, "Rich Nation, Strong Army:" National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan, Business History Review 69 (Spring 1995): 114-115.
James W. Morley, ed., The Final Confrontation: Japan's Negotiations with the United States, 1941, The Journal of Asian Studies 54 (May 1995): 505-7.
Carl Boyd, Hitler's Japanese Confidant: General Æshima Hiroshi and MAGIC Intelligence, 1941- 1945, Intelligence and National Security 9 (July 1994): 564-5.
Andrew Gordon, ed., Postwar Japan as History, The Journal of Asian Studies 53 (May 1994): 556- 7.
Nazli Choucri, Robert C. North, and Susumu Yamakage, The Challenge of Japan Before World War II and After, The Journal of Japanese Studies (Spring 1994): 267-270.
Gregory Hooks, The Battle of the Potomac: Forging the Military-Industrial Complex during World War Two, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Autumn 1993): 380-382.
Kenneth B. Pyle, The Japanese Question: Power and Purpose in a New Era, Pacific Affairs 66 (Summer 1993): 276-277.
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Richard Fuller, ShÇkan--Hirohito's Samurai: Leaders of the Japanese Armed Forces, 1926-1945, The Historian (Summer 1993): 740-741.
Natalie A. Naylor, Douglas Brinkley, and John Allen Gable, eds., Theodore Roosevelt: Many Sided American, The Long Island Historical Journal, (Spring 1993): 251-254.
Edward J. Drea, MacArthur's ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945, Intelligence and National Security , (April 1993): 274-275.
William M. Fletcher III, The Japanese Business Community and National Trade Policy, 1920- 1941, The American Historical Review, (June 1991): 932-933.
Michael Schaller, MacArthur: The Far Eastern General, Journal of Asian Studies, 48 (November 1989): 811-812.
Jonathan Utley, Going to War with Japan, Journal of Asian Studies, 45 (August 1986): 865-867.
Ronald H. Spector, Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan, The Journal of Strategic Studies, 9 (March 1986): 100-101.
H. P. Willmott, The Barrier and the Javelin, The Journal of Strategic Studies 7 (December 1984): 462-464.
James W. Morley, ed., The China Quagmire, The Journal of Strategic Studies, 7 (September 1984):338-339.
H. P. Willmott, Empires in the Balance, The Journal of Strategic Studies, 6 (December 1983): 116-117.
James W. Morley, ed., The Fateful Choice, The Journal of Strategic Studies 4 (March 1981): 89-91.