David AraseDavid Arase is currently resident professor of international politics at the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing University. Before that, he was professor of politics at Pomona College, Claremot, CA. He is the author of Buying Power: The Political Economy of Japan's Foreign Aid (1995), co-editor of The US-Japan Alliance: Balancing Soft and Hard Power in East Asia (2009), and editor of The Challenge of Change: East Asian in the New Millennium (IEAS, 2003).Education: B.A. in Liberal Arts, Cornell University; M.A. in International Relations, Johns Hopkins School of International Studies; Ph.D. in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Read More Read Less