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Michael Green
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He served as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council (National Security Council) from January 2004 to December 2005 under George West. Bush. He joined the National Security Council in April 2001 as director of Asian affairs with responsibility for Japan, of Korea, and Australia/New Zealand. From 1997 to 2000, he was senior fellow for Asian security at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directed the Independent Task Force on of Korea and study groups on Japan and security policy in Asia.
He served as senior adviser to the Office of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Department of Defense in 1997 and as consultant to the same office until 2000.
From 1995 to 1997, he was a research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and from 1994 to 1995, he was an assistant professor of Asian studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (School of Advanced International Studies), where he remained a professorial lecturer until 2001. His major publications include Japan"s Reluctant Realism (Palgrave/Street Martin"s, 2001), The United States.-Japan Alliance (Council on Foreign Relations, 1999), and Arming Japan (Columbia University Press, 1995).
Green graduated from Kenyon College with highest honors in history in 1983 and received his Master of Arts from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1987 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1994. He also did graduate work at Tokyo University as a Fulbright fellow and with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a research associate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Japan Program.
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Green speaks fluent Japanese and spent over five years in Japan working as an Assistant Language Teacher on a precursor to the Joint European Torus Programme, as a staff member of the Diet of Japan, as a journalist for Japanese and American newspapers, and as a consultant for United States. business. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Institute for International Security Studies.
