Dear SSJ Forum,



The Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS) at Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ) cordially invites you to the following event on October 10, 2019. All ICAS events are held in English, open to the public, and admission is free unless otherwise noted.


Please note that we moved to a new campus. Our new address is 1-14-29 Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo (世田谷区太子堂1-14-29). The campus is a 7-minute walk from Sangen-jaya station, two stops from Shibuya on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line.


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We look forward to welcoming you at the event,


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OCT 10, 7:00 PM

Does American Democracy have a Future? The US on the eve of the 2020 Election

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Next year, Americans will go to the poll to re-elect Donald Trump or bring his presidency to an end. Our panel will seek to shed some light on the historical, political, social context which destroyed the old Republican Party and brought Donald Trump to power. Our panelists will discuss the future of American liberal democracy a little more than a year prior to the 2020 elections.


Panelists:
R. Taggart Murphy is Professor Emeritus of International Political Economy at the University of Tsukuba. A former investment banker, he was one of the founders of the MBA Program in International Business at the University's Tokyo campus and served as Program Chair between 2011-2014. He is the author of the Weight of the Yen (Norton, 1996), Japan and the Shackles of the Past (Oxford, 2014), and, with Akio Mikuni, Japan's Policy Trap (Brookings, 2002). His articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, the National Interest, Fortune, the New York Times, the London Review of Books, and Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus and he is a frequent contributor to the New Left Review with a long piece in press for the forthcoming Nov/Dec issue. He has served as Senior Non-Resident Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Adjunct Professor at Temple University Japan Campus. He holds a B.A. from Harvard University in East Asian Studies and an MBA, also from Harvard.



Gregory W. Noble is a professor of politics and public administration in the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo. Among his publications are Collective Action in East Asia: How Ruling Parties Shape Industrial Policy; The Asian Financial Crisis and the Structure of Global Finance (co-edited with John Ravenhill), "Abenomics in the 2014 Election: Showing the money (supply) and little else," "Government-business relations in democratizing Asia," "The decline of particularism in Japanese politics," "The Chinese Auto Industry as Challenge, Opportunity and Partner."


Robert Dujarric runs the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University, Japan Campus. He is a former Council on Foreign Relations (Hitachi) International Affairs Fellow in Japan. He was raised in Paris and New York, was an investment banker in New York, Madrid, London and New York prior to joining a think tank in Washington in 1993. He is a graduate of Harvard College and holds an MBA from Yale University.



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