[Jtpa-list] MIT-CNC: Japan and Italy, Lessons from their Political and Economic Past and Implications for the Future

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Japan and Italy
=E2=80=93 Lessons from their Political and Economic Past and =
Implications for =20
the Future

Date: 04/18/2003 Fri
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati
Location: 950 Page Mill Rd. Palo Alto, CA
Cost: FREE! [Reservation Required]
Contact: ralph_lin@alum.mit.edu

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Jointly sponsored with MITCNC by Wilson Sonsini, the Silicon Valley =20
Japanese Professional Association, and the Japanese Technology =20
Professionals Association.

How can we apply economic and political lessons from the past to guide =20=

our future?  At first glance, the emergence of modern Italy and Japan =20=

may appear to share little in common. However, MIT Professor Richard =20
Samuels will provide fresh insights and examples that show despite =20
their completely different national identifies, both countries have =20
traveled strikingly parallel paths towards modern economic and =20
political development.

Professor Samuels will also share his thoughts and perspectives on what =20=

has worked and not worked for each of these nations, and how historical =20=

events will shape the future of Japan and Italy moving forward.

Professor Samuels has recently published a book titled MACHIAVELLI'S =20
CHILDREN - Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan

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About Professor Richard Samuels

Richard J. Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science =20=

at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is Director of =20=

the Center for International Studies.  He is also the Founding Director =20=

of the MIT Japan Program.  In 2001 he became Chairman of the Japan-US =20=

Friendship Commission, an independent Federal grant-making agency that =20=

supports Japanese studies and policy-oriented research in the United =20
States.

Professor Samuels served as Head of the MIT Department of Political =20
Science between 1992-1997 and as Vice-Chairman of the Committee on =20
Japan of the National Research Council until 1996.  In 1992 he was =20
elected a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  He has been =20
awarded three Fulbright Fellowships, an Abe Fellowship, and a National =20=

Science Foundation Research Grant to support five separate extended =20
research trips to Japan, enabling a total of seven years of field =20
research in Japan.

Dr. Samuels has written or edited nine books, most recently: =20
Machiavelli=E2=80=99s Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and =
Japan =20
(Cornell University Press, 2003), a comparative political and economic =20=

history of political leadership in Italy and Japan.  His 1994 study, =20
=E2=80=9CRich Nation, Strong Army=E2=80=9D: National Security and the =
Technological =20
Transformation of Japan (Cornell University Press), won the 1996 John =20=

Whitney Hall Prize of the Association of Asian Studies and the 1996 =20
Arisawa Memorial Prize of the Association of American University =20
Presses.  His book, The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets =20=

in Comparative and Historical Perspective (Cornell University Press) =20
received the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 1988.  In 1983, =20
Princeton University Press published his Politics of Regional Policy in =20=

Japan.

His articles have appeared in International Organization, Foreign =20
Affairs, International Security, The New York Review of Books, The =20
Journal of Modern Italian Studies, The Journal of Japanese Studies, =20
Daedalus, and other scholarly journals.  =46rom 1998-2000 he was a =20
columnist for the Mainichi Shimbun, and in 2001 he became a columnist =20=

for Newsweek Japan.

Dr. Samuels received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of =20
Technology, Department of Political Science in 1980.  He received his =20=

MA from Tufts University in 1974, and his AB from Colgate University, =20=

magna cum laude, in June 1973.
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