James J. Przystup

Senior Fellow, Japan Chair

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At A Glance:

James J. Przystup is a senior fellow with Hudson Institute’s Japan Chair. His work at Hudson analyzes the Indo-Pacific region, with a special focus on security alliances. 

Biography

James J. Przystup is a senior fellow with Hudson Institute’s Japan Chair. His work at Hudson analyzes the Indo-Pacific region with a special focus on alliance management issues with respect to Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Australia, the Philippines and Thailand, the Quad, and ASEAN. He also studies Europe’s growing interest in the Indo-Pacific, and challenges posed by China to the existing rules-based regional and international order. 

Dr. Przystup has worked on Asia-related issues for over thirty years: on the staff of the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs; in the private sector with Itochu Corporation and IBM World Trade Americas/Far East Corporation; in the United States Government, on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff under Secretary of State George P. Shultz and under Secretary of State James A. Baker III, as senior member responsible for East Asia and the Pacific; and in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, as director for regional security strategies on the policy planning staff. During the administration of President Ronald Reagan, Dr. Przystup served as the deputy director of the Presidential Advisory Commission on US-Japan Relations. He also served on the State Department delegation to the Paris Peace Conference on Cambodia. He was previously director of the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation. Dr. Przystup was presented with the State Department’s Meritorious Honor award in 1989 and 1991; the Defense Department’s Outstanding Achievement Award in 1992; and cited for his Exceptional Performance by the National Defense University on three separate occasions.

Dr. Przystup graduated summa cum laude from the University of Detroit and holds an MA in international relations from the University of Chicago and a PhD in diplomatic history also from the University of Chicago. He studied Japanese at Columbia University and Keio University in Tokyo and was a visiting fellow on the law faculty of Keio University.

Events
15
August 2024
Past Event
One Year after Camp David: How Durable Are Trilateral Ties?
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper
Patrick M. Cronin
Myong-hyun Go
Koichiro Matsumoto
Tetsuo Kotani
Riley Walters
James J. Przystup
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, United States President Joe Biden, and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio arrive for a joint news conference on August 18, 2023, in Camp David, Maryland. (Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
15
August 2024
Past Event
One Year after Camp David: How Durable Are Trilateral Ties?

Join Hudson Institute Asia-Pacific Security Chair Patrick Cronin and an expert panel as they consider the opportunities and problems confronting the future of the three nations’ cooperation.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, United States President Joe Biden, and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio arrive for a joint news conference on August 18, 2023, in Camp David, Maryland. (Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper
Patrick M. Cronin
Myong-hyun Go
Koichiro Matsumoto
Tetsuo Kotani
Riley Walters
James J. Przystup
24
January 2024
Past Event
Reinforcing a Free and Open Indo-Pacific
Featured Speakers:
James J. Przystup
Yuki Tatsumi
Greg Brown
Lisa Curtis
Moderator:
William Chou
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend the Quad Fellowship Founding Celebration event on May 24, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan. (Yuichi Yamazaki via Getty Images)
24
January 2024
Past Event
Reinforcing a Free and Open Indo-Pacific
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend the Quad Fellowship Founding Celebration event on May 24, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan. (Yuichi Yamazaki via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
James J. Przystup
Yuki Tatsumi
Greg Brown
Lisa Curtis
Moderator:
William Chou
04
December 2023
Past Event
The Quad’s Multidimensional Interest in Taiwan
Featured Speakers:
James J. Przystup
Yuko Mukai
Dhruva Jaishankar
Adam Leslie
Moderator:
Riley Walters
Taiwan's armed forces hold two days of routine drills to show combat readiness ahead of Lunar New Year holidays at a military base on January 11, 2023 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The self-ruled island of Taiwan continues to hold defensive drills, as tensions remain high in the Taiwan straits. (Photo by Annabelle Chih/Getty Images)
04
December 2023
Past Event
The Quad’s Multidimensional Interest in Taiwan
Taiwan's armed forces hold two days of routine drills to show combat readiness ahead of Lunar New Year holidays at a military base on January 11, 2023 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The self-ruled island of Taiwan continues to hold defensive drills, as tensions remain high in the Taiwan straits. (Photo by Annabelle Chih/Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
James J. Przystup
Yuko Mukai
Dhruva Jaishankar
Adam Leslie
Moderator:
Riley Walters