Publications

Introduction

Richard J. Samuels (With Daniel Sneider)

In Elisabeth Rubinfein, Richard J. Samuels, and Daniel Sneider, eds., Japan and the United States: The Journey of a Defeated Nation, A Diplomat’s Memoir by Yukio Okamoto (Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2024)

Analysis

La communauté japonaise du renseignment

“La communauté japonaise du renseignment” (The Japanese Intelligence Community) 

Richard J. Samuels

in Paul Charon and Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, eds, Les Mondes du renseignement: Approches, acteurs, enjeux (Paris: PUF, 2024)

Analysis

Pushing on an Open Door: Japan’s Evolutionary Security Posture

Eric Heginbotham, Samuel Leiter, and Richard J. Samuels

The Washington Quarterly Vol. 46, No. 2 (Summer 2023)

Analysis

The Rise, Fall, and Reinvention of the Japanese Intelligence Community

Richard J. Samuels 

in Ryan Chaffer, ed., The Handbook of Asian Intelligence Cultures (London: Roman and Littlefield, 2021)

Analysis

Writing About Japan

Richard J. Samuels

In Nora Kottmann and Cornelia Reiher, eds., Studying Japan: Handbook of Research, Fieldwork and Methods (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgessellschaft, 2020)

Analysis

Why the U.S. Dropped Atomic Bombs on Japan

Richard J. Samuels

New York Times, August 3, 2020

Commentary

“La communauté de renseignement japonaise,” (The Japanese Intelligence Community)

Richard J. Samuels

in Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, Jean-Vincent Holeindre and Paul Chareon, eds. Le Renseignement : Approches, acteurs et enjeux, (Intelligence: Approaches, Actors and Issues), Paris: Institute for Strategic Research Ecole Militaire, 2020.

 

Analysis

Writing About Japan

Richard J. Samuels

in Nora Kottmann and Cornelia Reiher, eds. Studying Japan: Handbook of Research Design, Fieldwork and Methods.” Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgessellschaft, 2020.

Analysis

Japan’s View of Nuclear North Korea: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Eric Heginbotham and Richard J. Samuels

Chapter in William Overholt, ed. North Korea: Peace? Nuclear War? Cambridge, MA: The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard University, 2019.

Analysis

An agenda for Japanese military reform

Eric Heginbotham and Richard J. Samuels

East Asia Forum Quarterly, July-September 2018

Commentary

A New Military Strategy for Japan

Eric Heginbotham and Richard Samuels

Foreign Affairs, July 16, 2018

Analysis

Introduction: Japan's pivot in Asia

Richard J. Samuels, Corey Wallace

International Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 4, 1 July 2018, Pages 703–710

Analysis

Japan's National Security Council: filling the whole of government?

Mayumi Fukushima and Richard J. Samuels

International Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 4, 1 July 2018, Pages 773–790

Analysis

Japan’s Nuclear Hedge: Beyond ‘Allergy’ and ‘Breakout’

Richad J. Samuels

 in Demetrios James Caraley and Robert Jervis, eds. The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Extending the U.S. Umbrella and Increasing Chances of War. New York: The Academy of Political Science, 2018 (with James Schoff).


 

Analysis

Active Denial: Redesigning Japan's Response to China's Military Challenge

Eric Heginbotham and Richard J. Samuels

International Security, Vol, 42, No. 4, Spring 2018

Analysis

With Friends Like These: Japan-ROK Cooperation and US Policy

Eric Heginbotham and Richard Samuels

The Asan Forum, March - April 2018 Vol.6, No.2

Commentary

Japan's Energy Security: Strategic Discourse and Domestic Politics

Richard J. Samuels and Mike M. Mochizuki

in Mike M. Mochizuki and Deepa Ollapally, (eds.), Energy Security in Asia and Eurasia (London: Routledge, 2017)

Analysis

Will Tokyo's Arms Exports Help or Hurt US Interests in Asia?

Eric Heginbotham and Richard J. Samuels

The Cipher Brief, July 14, 2017

Commentary

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