David Arase holds a BA from Cornell University(1977); an MA from Johns Hopkins SAIS
(1982); and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (1989). He is currently Resident Professor of
International Politics at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Hopkins-Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China.
Author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and media commentaries on Indo-Pacific
relations and Asian politics and of Buying Power: The political economy of Japan’s foreign
aid (Lynne Rienner 1995) with six additional edited or co-edited volumes including The US-
Japan Alliance: Balancing Soft and Hard Power (Routledge-Nissan Institute 2010), (awarded
the 2011 Ohira Memorial Foundation Special Prize) and most recently The Belt and Road
Initiative in Asia, Africa, and Europe, Routledge, January 2023. Recent research affiliations
include National Chengchi University (Taiwan); ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute (Singapore);
Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong; National Institute of Defense Studies
(Tokyo); International Christian University (Tokyo); University of Adelaide.