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Mireya Solís
E-mail: solis@american.edu
Phone: (202) 885-1816

Dr. Mireya Solís earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Government Department in 1998. Her research interests include international and comparative political economy, Japanese politics and foreign policy, and North American regional integration. Dr. Solis’s book Banking on Multinationals: Public Credit and the Export of Japanese Sunset Industries (Stanford University Press, 2004) underscores the crucial role that public preferential finance has played in the expansion of Japanese multinational corporations. Dr. Solís has published several journal articles and book chapters. Among them “Japan’s New Regionalism. The Politics of Free Trade Talks with Mexico” (Journal of East Asian Studies), “The Politics of Self-Restraint: FDI Subsidies and Japanese Mercantilism” (The World Economy), and “Sharing the Spoils of Economic Integration? Japanese Direct Investment in North America” (in Regionalization in the World Economy: NAFTA, the Americas and Asia Pacific). Dr. Solis has received numerous prizes and academic distinctions, including the Abe Fellowship, the Young Scholar Award from the Association of Japanese Business Studies, Fulbright and Ford Foundation scholarships to pursue graduate studies in the U.S., fellowships from the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University in Tokyo and the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego for dissertation research and write-up, and an advanced research fellowship from the U.S.-Japan Relations Program at Harvard University. Dr. Solís’s current research project focuses on East Asian regionalism, with a special emphasis on Japan’s new policy to negotiate preferential trade agreements. Her on-going book project “Trading Preferences? Japan’s New Regionalism and East Asia” was awarded an Abe Fellowship by the Center for Global Partnership and the SSRC. Dr. Solís teaches courses on International Economic Policy, Japanese Political Economy, Relations among China, Japan, and the United States, and the Politics of Regional Integration.

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