Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
Washington,
D.C.
Uncommon Alliance for the Common Good: New Strategies for U.S.-Japan Foreign
Policy Cooperation in Asia (Year 2)
Project Director: James Schoff, Senior Associate Asia
Program
$90,000
This project will look into new and creative ways to
“strengthen” the US-Japan alliance outside of “Security alliance
strengthening” in the coming century.
Center for American Progress, Washington,
D.C.
The U.S.-Japan Alliance in an Age of Elevated U.S.-China Relations
Project Director: Brian Harding, Director for East and Southeast Asia
$50,029
This project aims to build a greater
understanding in Tokyo of US-China relations and in Beijing of US-Japan
relations, identify where US, Japan, and Chinese interests converge, and design
a strategy to maintain and strengthen US-Japan relations in concert with
deepening US-China ties. Together, CAP and RBJI will write up recommendations
on how to strengthen US-Japan relations in concert with deepening US-China
relations.
Japan
Center for International Exchange, New York, NY
NGOs as Strategic Partners: Strengthening
US-Japan Cooperation on Humanitarian Assistance and Development (Year 1)
Project Director: James Gannon, Executive
Director of JCIE USA
$29,995
JCIE proposes to launch a two-year initiative to
examine how Japanese and US NGOs can become strategic partners with governments
and with one another on humanitarian assistance and development, and encourage
deeper and more meaningful US-Japan partnerships that involve NGOs.
Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale, Il
A Comparative Analysis of Plea Bargaining: Are
the Innocent Implicated? (Year 1)
Project Director: Andrew Pardieck,
Associate Professor
$56,654
SIU proposes to take a controlled study that
taps into the psychological constructs important in decisions to plead guilty
after being accused of wrongdoing and implement the study in the US, South
Korea, and Japan. Through this process, we seek to understand what
motivates people to plead guilty; the interaction between the incentives to
plead guilty, innocence, and false accusations; and the means to avoid
implicating the innocent in the plea bargaining
process.
University
of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, MI
Changing Models of Minority Integration:
Cross-National Comparison of Rights Provisions in National Constitutions (Year
1)
Project Director: Kiyoteru
Tsutsui, Associate Professor
$69,738
The main goals of this project are to understand
how modes of minority integration have changed in the history of nation-states
and what the causes and consequences of these changes might be. Through
the proposed research and conferences, we seek to deepen our understandings of
robust models of minority integration in the contemporary world and disseminate
these understandings to policy-makers, practitioners, scholars, and the public.