Faculty

Donald Hellmann

hellmann@u.washington.edu

(Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley), professor in Political Science and the Jackson School of International Studies and Director of the Institute for International Policy, is a specialist in Asian and international politics who devotes particular attention to the politics of Japan. He is author, co-author and/or editor of many books, three of which have been published in Japanese and English editions. The latest (with Kenneth Cole) is From APEC to Xanadu: Creating Viable Community on the Post Cold War Pacific. Hellman's focus on recent international problems (he is the editor of In the Wake of the Asian Crisis: Toward an Interdependent but Noncomformist World, a special issue of the British journal Pacific Review), helps explain his active role as a consultant and speaker on problems of U.S. foreign policy. He has been a frequent consultant to both government institutions (e.g. Congress, the State Department) and public policy research organizations (e.g. the Brookings Institution). Hellman's major teaching emphases are American foreign policy, Japanese politics, and the international political economy of East Asia.