Gilbert Rozman, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, specializes in comparisons and relations in Northeast Asia, including China, Japan, and Russia. In 2000-2001, he began to add Korea to this mix. He compares the historical development of these countries, their recent-day societies, their search for national identities, and their strategies for international relations. His teaching emphasizes combinations of these countries as well as the emergence of regionalism.

He received his B.A. from Carleton College in 1965 and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1971. He was also in the Critical Languages Program 1963-64 at Princeton University. His recent published works include ed., Japan and Russia: The Tortuous Path to Normalization 1949-1999, “Sino-Russian Cross-Border Relations: Turning Fortresses into Free Trade Zones,” “Flawed Regionalism: Reconceptualizing Northeast Asia in the 1990s,” “Backdoor Japan: The Search for a Way Out via Regionalism and Decentralization,” “China's Quest for a Great Power Identity,” “Japan's Quest for a Great Power Identity,” “Can Confucianism Survive in an Age of Universalism and Globalization?” and “Japan and South Korea.”

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