James L. Schoff, a Duke alumnus and Senior Fellow in the Carnegie Asia Program, will visit Duke to give a talk on the US-Japan-China triangle through the lens of both security threats and economic relations, covering issues of North Korea and the trade war. The event will take place on December 4, 5:30-7:00pm in Sanford 04. Before the formal lecture, DEAN will also hold a small group discussion with Mr. Schoff to chat about life in DC and career in think tanks (4:30-5:30pm, Sanford 201). Food will be served for both events. This event is co-hosted by the Duke University Program in American Grand Strategy.
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James L. Schoff is a senior fellow in the Carnegie Asia Program. His research focuses on U.S.-Japan relations and regional engagement, Japanese politics and security, and the private sector’s role in Japanese policymaking. He previously served as senior adviser for East Asia policy at the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense and as director of Asia Pacific Studies at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA). Mr Schoff has written extensively on East Asian security and foreign policy issues. His publications include: Uncommon Alliance for the Common Good: The United States and Japan after the Cold War (Carnegie, 2017), “What Myanmar Means for the U.S.-Japan Alliance,” (Carnegie, 2014), a chapter in Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age; Power, Ambition, and the Ultimate Weapon (Georgetown University Press, 2012), and Tools for Trilateralism: Improving U.S.-Japan-Korea Cooperation to Manage Complex Contingencies (Potomac Books Inc., 2005)