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
Commentary
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
Adjust the Asia strategy
Eric Heginbotham and Richard J. Samuels
Precis, MIT Center for International Studies, Fall20/Winter21
Commentary
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
Vulnerable Alliances: U.S. Unpredictability and the Search for a ‘Plan B’ in South Korea and Japan
Eric Heginbotham and Richard J. Samuels
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 whack-a-mole foreign policy
Richard J. Samuels
Commentary
Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community
Richard J. Samuels
Book
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
After Abe, Japan tries to balance ties to the US and China
Richard Samuels
The Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2022
Commentary