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Adam P. Liff
Adam P. Liff (アダム・リッフ) is professor of East Asian international relations at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, where he also serves as founding director of its 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative (21JPSI). He is also a nonresident senior fellow with the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, as well as a faculty associate and an associate-in-research at Harvard University’s Program on US-Japan Relations and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, respectively. From 2023 to 2024 he served as the Visiting Chair of Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Dr. Liff holds a PhD and MA in politics from Princeton University, a postgraduate research certificate from the University of Tokyo, and a BA from Stanford University.
