Peter Berton
Expert in Asia Pacific geopolitics and international negotiation behavior
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
School of International Relations
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Contact at: (310) 553-3330 or berton@usc.edu
Expertise:
- Japanese politics and foreign policy
- Chinese foreign policy
- Russian foreign policy
- U.S.-Japan relations
- U.S.-China relations
- Russian relations with China, Japan and Korea
- Japanese, Chinese and Russian negotiating behavior
- Japanese socio-cultural and psychological characteristics
- culture and international negotiation
- the Kurile Islands territorial dispute between Japan and Russia
- territorial and maritime disputes in Eastern Asia
- Japanese Communist Party
- international Communism
- comparative Communism
- geopolitics in the 20th and 21st centuries
- Author of Russo-Japanese Relations, 1905-1917: From Enemies to Allies (2011), Japan on the Psychologist's Couch (2002), The Psychology of Japan's Foreign Relations (1999), Japan In the Asia-Pacific Balance of Power (2001), Japanese Communist Party and Its Transformations (2000), The Japanese-Russian Territorial Dilemma (1993), The Secret Russo-Japanese Alliance of 1916 (1988) and The Russo-Japanese Boundary (1967), as well as numerous articles on the international relations of the Pacific Rim
- Co-author of Contemporary China (1967), The Russian Impact on Japan (1981) and The Fateful Choice: Japan's Advance into Southeast Asia, 1939-1941 (1980)
- Co-editor of International Negotiation: Actors, Structure/Process, Values (1999)
- Contributor to the Guide to International Relations and Diplomacy (2002)
Foreign Languages:
Russian, Japanese, German and French
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