Readings in American Public Policy

Professor of Political Science and Former Director for Academic Programs, TTU Regional Sites, Office of the Provost 

In addition to serving as Faculty Advisor to the TTU Ethics Center, he has served as Chair, Department of Political Science, Past Director, Institute for Modern Conflict, Diplomacy, and Reconciliation. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995. His areas of specialization include comparative politics, politics in Japan and Asia, political institutions, security issues in East Asia, and Statistical and Formal methods and Ethics and Leadership. He is also the author of Improving South Korea-Japan Relations (2023), and The Japan that Never Was: Explaining the Rise and Decline of a Misunderstood Country (SUNY Press, 2004) and South Korea’s Rise to International Influence (Lexington Books 2019) as well as numerous book chapters and articles that have appeared in such Journals as the British Journal of Political Science, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Women and Politics, Asian Survey, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Journal of the Asia-Pacific Economy, Pacific Focus, International Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. He is currently working on a project that involves investigating health disparities by race and ethnicity across Texas’ 254 counties, and published an article based on this research in the Texas Tech University Ethics Journal. He is also past president (current Vice President) of the International University Network a network of universities in the Caribbean, North America, and Central and South America.