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Saori N. Katada

Professor of International Relations

Contact Information
E-mail: skatada@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-8542
Office: CPA 309

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Curriculum Vitae
 

Education
Ph.D. Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
 

Description of Research

Research Keywords
North-South relations, Japanese foreign policy, international political economy, regionalism, Pacific Rim, international financial and monetary relations, foreign aid
 

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
American Political Science Association
Association for Asian Studies
International Studies Association
Japan Association for International Relations
 

Publications

Book
Katada, S. N. (2020). Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific. New York: Columbia University Press.
Park, G., Katada, S. N., Chiozza, G., Kojo, Y. (2018). Taming Japan’s Deflation: The Debate over Unconventional Monetary Policy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Roberts, C., Armijo, L. E., Katada, S. N. (2017). The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft. New York: Oxford University Press.
Wise, C., Armijo, L. E., Katada, S. N. (2015). Unexpected Outcomes: How Emerging Markets Survived the Global Financial Crisis. Washington D.C.: Brookings Press.
Armijo, L. E., Katada, S. N. (2014). The Financial Statecraft of Emerging Powers: Shield and Sword in Asia and Latin America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Solis, M., Stallings, B., Katada, S. N. (2009). Competitive Regionalism: FTA Diffusion in the Pacific Rim. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Katada, S. N., Urata, S. (2009). Ajia Taiheiyo no FTA Kyoso (FTA Competition in the Asia-Pacific). Tokyo: Keiso Shobo Ltd..
Katada, S. N., Solis, M. (2008). Cross Regional Trade Agreements: Understanding Permeated Regionalism in East Asia. (Saori N. Katada, Mireya Solis, Ed.). Springer.
Katada, S. N. (2004). Global Governance: Germany and Japan in the International System. (Saori N. Katada, Hanns Maull and Takashi Inoguchi, Ed.). Ashgate Publishing Ltd..
Katada, S. N. (2002). Gurobaru Akuta no Jouken: Kokusai Kinyuukiki to Nihon (Qualification for the Global Actor: International Financial Crisis and Japan). Tokyo: Yuhikaku Publishing Co. Ltd..
Katada, S. N. (2001). Banking on Stability: Japan and the Cross-Pacific Dynamics of International Financial Crisis Management, University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press.
 

Book Chapter
Katada, S. N., Nemoto, Y. (2021). Chapter 31 Finance. The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics Oxford University Press.
Katada, S. N., Cheung, G. (2018). Monetary and Fiscal Politics in the 2017 Snap Election. Monetary and Fiscal Politics in the 2017 Snap Elec pp. 243-259. Palgrave.
Katada, S. N., Henning, C. R. (2016). Cooperation without Institutions: The Case of East Asian Currency Arrangement. Asian Designs: Governance in the Contemporary Worl pp. 59-74. Cornell University Press.
Jetschke, A., Katada, S. N. (2015). Chapter 12: Asia. Oxford Handbook on Comparative Regionalism Oxford University Press.
Katada, S. N., Henning, C. R. (2014). Currency. Oxford Handbook on International Relations of Asia Oxford University Press.
Katada, S. N. (2011). Regional Finanical Cooperation. Routledge Handbook on Asian Regionalism London: Routledge.
Katada, S. N. (2009). Mission Accomplished or a Sisyphean Task? Japan's Regulatory Response to the Global Financial Crisis. Global Finance in Crisis pp. 137-152. Routledge.
Katada, S. N. (2009). Old Visions and New Actors in Foreign Aid Politics: Explaining Changes in Japna's ODA Policy to China. 1st pp. 54-74. Routledge.
Katada, S. N., Solis, M. (2008). Under Pressure: Japan’s Institutional Response to Regional Uncertainty,. 1st pp. 109-147. Springer.
Katada, S. N. (2008). Japan’s Role in the Latin America's Debt Management, 1982-91. 1st pp. 151-172. New York: Palgrave.
Katada, S. N., Solis, M. (2008). Cross-Regional Trade Agreement in East Asia: Findings and Implications. 1st pp. 147-159. Springer.
Katada, S. N. (2006). Japan’s Financial Politics: Institutional Challenges toward and against Liberalization. Routledge.
Katada, S. N. (2005). Balancing Act: Japan’s Strategy in Global and Regional Financial Governance. United Nations University Press.
Katada, S. N. (2004). Japan’s Counter-Weight Strategy: U.S.-Japan Cooperation and Competition in International Finance. Stanford University Press.
Katada, S. N. (2004). New Courses in Japan’s Foreign Aid Policy: More Humanitarian and more Nationalistic. Ashgate Publishing Ltd..
Katada, S. N. (2001). Determining Factors of Japan’s Cooperation and Non-cooperation with the United States: The Case of Asian Financial Crisis Management, 1997-1999. St. Martin Press.
Katada, S. N. (2001). Japan’s Approach to Shaping a New International Financial Architecture. Ashgate Publishing Ltd..
 

Journal Article
Liao, J., Katada, S. N. (2021). Institutions, Ideation, and Diffusion of Japan’s and China’s Overseas Infrastructure Promotion Policies. New Political Economy.
Eaton, S., Katada, S. N. (2021). A Critical Node: The Role of China in the Transnational Circulation of Developmentalist Ideas, Politics and Practices. New Political Economy.
Katada, S. N., Cheung, G., Park, G. (2020). Asymmetric Incentives and the New Politics of Monetary Policy. Socio Economic Review.
Katada, S. N., Liao, J. (2020). China and Japan in Pursuit of Infrastructure Development Leadership: Competition or Convergence?. Global Governance. Vol. 26 (3), pp. 449-472.
Liao, J., Katada, S. N. (2020). Geoeconomics, Easy Money, and Political Opportunism: The Perils under China and Japan’s High-Speed Rail Competition. Contemporary Politics.
Lin, A. Y., Katada, S. N. (2020). Striving for Greatness: Status Aspirations, Rhetorical Entrapment, and Domestic Reforms. Review of International Political Economy..
Katada, S. N. (2017). In Pursuit of Stability: Evolution of Asia’s Regional Financial Architecture. The Pacific Review. Vol. 30 (6), pp. 910-922.
Katada, S. N., Roberts, C., Armijo, L. E. (2017). The Varieties of Collective Financial Statecraft: The BRICS and China. Political Science Quarterly. Vol. 132 (3), pp. 402-433.
Solis, M., Katada, S. N. (2015). Unlikely Pivotal States in Competitive FTA Diffusion: The Effect of Japan’s TPP Participation on Asia-Pacific Regional Integration. New Political Economy. Vol. 20 (2), pp. 155-177.
Armijo, L. E., Katada, S. N. (2015). Theorizing the Financial Statecraft of Emerging Powers. New Political Economy. Vol. 20 (1), pp. 42-62.
Knaack, P., Katada, S. N. (2013). The Fault Lines of the New Global Financial Architecture: Can G20 Keep up with its Expanding Issue Coverage?". Global Policy. Vol. 4 (3)
Katada, S. N. (2013). Financial Crisis Fatigue? Politics behind Japan’s post-Global Financial Crisis Economic Contraction. Journal of Japanese Political Science. Vol. 14 (2), pp. 223-242.
Katada, S. N. (2011). Seeking a Place for East Asian Regionalism: Challenges and Opportunities under the Global Financial Crisis. The Pacific Review. Vol. 24 (3), pp. 273-290.
Katada, S. N., Solis, M. (2010). Domestic Sources of Japanese Foreign Policy Activism: Loss Avoidance and Demand Coherence. International Relations of the Asia Pacific. Vol. 10 (1), pp. 129-57.
Katada, S. N., Gray, C. (2008). Double- and Triple-Minority in the International Relations Classroom. International Studies Perspecitves. Vol. 9 (3), pp. 464-468.
Katada, S. N. (2008). From a Supporter to a Challenger? Japan’s Currency Leadership in Dollar-dominated East Asia. Review of International Political Economy. Vol. 15 (3), pp. 399-417.
Pekkanen, S. M., Solis, M., Katada, S. N. (2007). Trading Gains for Control: Forum Choices in International Trade and Japanese Economic Diplomacy. International Studies Quarterly. Vol. 51 (4), pp. 945-970.
Solis, M., Katada, S. N. (2007). The Japan-Mexico FTA: A Cross-Regional Step in Japan’s New Trade Regionalism. Pacific Affairs. Vol. 80 (2), pp. 279-300.
Solis, M., Katada, S. N. (2007). Understanding East Asian Cross-Regionalism: An Analytical Framework. Pacific Affairs. Vol. 80 (2), pp. 229-257.
Katada, S. N. (2002). Japan and Asian Monetary Regionalization: Cultivating a New Regional Leadership after the Asian Financial Crisis. Geopolitics. Vol. 7 (1), pp. 85-112.
Katada, S. N. (2002). Japan’s Two-Track Aid Approach: The Forces behind Competing Triads. Asian Survey. Vol. 42 (2), pp. 320-342.
Katada, S. N. (2001). Why did Japan Suspend Foreign Aid to China? Japan's Foreign Aid Decision-making and Sources of Aid Sanction. Social Science Japan Journal. Vol. 4 (1), pp. 39-58.
Katada, S. N. (2000). Japanese Foreign Aid after the San Francisco Peace Treaty. Journal of American-East Asian Relations. Vol. 9 (3-4), pp. 1-24.
Katada, S. N., McKeown, T. J. (1998). Aid Politics and Electoral Politics: Japan 1970-1992. International Studies Quarterly. Vol. 42 (3), pp. 591-600.
Katada, S. N. (1998). The Japanese Government in Two Mexican Crises: An Emerging Lender-of-Last-Resort?. Pacific Affairs. Vol. 71 (1), pp. 591-600.
Katada, S. N. (1997). Two Aid Hegemons: Japanese-American Interactions and Aid Allocations to Latin America and the Caribbean. World Development. Vol. 25 (6), pp. 931-945.
 

Honors and Awards
Fondation France-Japon de le École de Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociales , 2022-2023   
Center for Global Partnership (CGP), Intellectual Exchange Grant, 2015-2016   
East West Center (DC Office) Asia Studies Fellowship, Fall 2015   
International Studies Association Venture Workshop Grant, 2010-2011   
Mellon-LASA Seminar Grant, 2010-2011   
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Recipient, 2009-2010   
East Asia Institute Fellowship, 2009-2010   
USC Provost's Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2009-2010   
Japan Foundation Research Fellowship, Spring 2009   
USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, College Awards for Research Excellence, 1997-1998  
 

Service to the University

Administrative Appointments
Director, 08/16/2023-08/15/2024
Director, 08/16/2021-08/15/2022
Chair, 08/16/2019-08/15/2020
Director, 08/16/2018-08/15/2019
Graduate Director, 08/16/2016-12/31/2016
Graduate Director, 08/16/2013-08/15/2015
Graduate Director, 08/16/2010-08/15/2013
 

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards
Editorial Team member, Review of International Political Economy, 2021-2022 
 

Professional Offices
Vice President, International Studies Association (ISA), 2021-2022 
 
 
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