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Amy Catalinac

 

Amy Catalinac

Graduate Student
[ Curriculum Vitae ]
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Thesis Title: Electoral Incentives, Nationalism, and Japan's National Security Policy
Major Field: International Relations
Advisors: Professors Susan Pharr, Alastair Iain Johnston, Stephen Rosen and Robert Bates. Amy also receives guidance from Harvey Mansfield, Jorge Dominguez, and Michael Hiscox.

Biographical Note:

Amy L. Catalinac is a fourth-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government and a Graduate Student Associate at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Her dissertation explores recent changes in Japan's national security and defense posture, and she employs electoral incentives, rising nationalism, and changes in the party system in Japan to explain these changes. Amy was recently awarded the Toshiba International Foundation Prize for the best article in the journal Japan Forum in 2005, and the Akiyama Award from the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies' at Harvard, for her to pursue exploratory dissertation research in Tokyo. Amy has written on topics as diverse as Japan's whaling policy, constitutional revision in Japan, changing security policy in Japan, New Zealand, and Australia, oil and civil war, and ethnic diversity and economic performance. Amy completed her undergraduate education in her native New Zealand in 2002, after which she studied at the University of Tokyo for several years before coming to Harvard. While in Japan Amy worked for the Liberal Democratic Party as a translator and for former Cabinet Minister Endo Takehiko as an intern. From fall 2007 Amy will be serving as Undergraduate Concentration Advisor in Government at Eliot House and graduate student coordinator for the Contemporary Japanese Politics Study Group. She is also the Teaching Assistant for Professor Susan's Pharr's junior tutorial: 'State and Society in Contemporary Japan.'

Papers:

Identity Theory and Foreign Policy: Japan's Response to the Gulf War and the US War in Iraq Politics and Policy, 35, 1, pp. 58-100. Presented at the Women in International Security Summer Symposium, Washington, D.C., June 8th-13th, 2006.
Japan, the West, and the Whaling Issue: Understanding the Japanese Side Japan Forum, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2005. pp.155-185.
Book Review: Anthony DeFilippo. The Challenges of the US-Japan Military Arrangement New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1, June 2006.
The Establishment and Subsequent Expansion of the Waitangi Tribunal: The Politics of Agenda Setting Political Science, Vol. 56, No. 1, June 2004, pp.5-22.
Why Now? Explaining Phase Two of Constitutional Revisionism in Japan Working Paper. Comments welcome.
How Identities Become Securitized: Japan's Whaling Policy Explained Paper presented as keynote speech at the British Association of Japanese Studies' Annual Conference at Chatham House, London, September 13, 2006.