Matthew Brummer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1487954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Brummer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Brummer |
| SIGNATURE | BRUMMER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Tokyo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4154-6432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cross-national and cross-sectoral dynamics of innovation policies
Sustainable technology increasingly relies on highly complex basic science, and basic research policies play a dominant role in the long-term process of sustainable technology innovation. The formation of socio-technological systems around green technology is closely linked to both the sustainable and industrial targets of nations. However, there is currently no formal model that encompasses various technology and cross-national sectors, which is…
We Must Protect This Peace with Our Hands”
Japan’s national security identity and its elite strategic culture are at odds with each other, with the former moored to deep-rooted historical legacies and the latter yearning to adapt to contemporary imperatives, including the need to more actively cooperate with the United States in maintaining peace and stability in Asia. How can this tension be overcome? How do defense planners attempt to shape public perceptions of the military’s changing …
Reexamining Threat Perception in Early Cold War Japan
This article discusses whether Japanese military and political elites perceived the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China (PRC) as threats during the Cold War. Realist scholars have argued that Japan's security alliance with the United States and the global balance of power were such that most Japanese officials did not perceive either of the Communist giants as a serious military threat. Reaching a similar conclusion but for starkly di…
Threat perception, government centralization, and political instrumentality in Abe Shinzo’s Japan
In this paper, we review the International Relations literature and derive from it certain expectations of how government centralization may affect threat assessment, and from these, generate formal hypotheses. We then test these against the evidence of the extensive structural changes within Japan’s national security apparatus and the government’s threat perception in the period spanning the first and second Abe administrations (2006–2018). Draw…
Bridges over Troubled History
In the early nineteenth century, German political scientist and geographer Karl Haushofer coined the term “Pacific age” to describe the rapid growth of Japan, China, and India. “A giant space,” he wrote, “is expanding before our eyes with forces pouring into it ... the successor of the Atlantic age.”1 Despite the cataclysmic change in international affairs that would follow Haushofer's writing, scholars speak of a similar phenomenon today—the Asi…
Tangoing with Schumpeter
Technological innovation affects nearly every aspect of a country’s economic and political relations, including its trade profile, industrial performance, national security, and military might. It thus comes to bear in profound ways on both the relative and absolute power of states. Joseph Schumpeter’s “gale of creative destruction” is also distributive in nature: innovation displaces the old with the new at the expense of vested interests (Schum…
Innovation and Alliances
Explanations for national success in science and technology typically focus on domestic institutions and policies. However, that line of research has yet to identify any particular set of institutions or policies that explain variation in national innovation rates across cases or over time. This article offers new evidence that the problem with domestic institutions approaches stems from their failure to consider international security factors. S…
Threat perception, government centralization, and political instrumentality in Abe Shinzo’s Japan
In this paper, we review the International Relations literature and derive from it certain expectations of how government centralization may affect threat assessment, and from these, generate formal hypotheses. We then test these against the evidence of the extensive structural changes within Japan’s national security apparatus and the government’s threat perception in the period spanning the first and second Abe administrations (2006–2018). Draw…
Bridges over Troubled History
In the early nineteenth century, German political scientist and geographer Karl Haushofer coined the term “Pacific age” to describe the rapid growth of Japan, China, and India. “A giant space,” he wrote, “is expanding before our eyes with forces pouring into it ... the successor of the Atlantic age.”1 Despite the cataclysmic change in international affairs that would follow Haushofer's writing, scholars speak of a similar phenomenon today—the Asi…
Reexamining Threat Perception in Early Cold War Japan
This article discusses whether Japanese military and political elites perceived the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China (PRC) as threats during the Cold War. Realist scholars have argued that Japan's security alliance with the United States and the global balance of power were such that most Japanese officials did not perceive either of the Communist giants as a serious military threat. Reaching a similar conclusion but for starkly di…
Innovation and Alliances
Explanations for national success in science and technology typically focus on domestic institutions and policies. However, that line of research has yet to identify any particular set of institutions or policies that explain variation in national innovation rates across cases or over time. This article offers new evidence that the problem with domestic institutions approaches stems from their failure to consider international security factors. S…
We Must Protect This Peace with Our Hands”
Japan’s national security identity and its elite strategic culture are at odds with each other, with the former moored to deep-rooted historical legacies and the latter yearning to adapt to contemporary imperatives, including the need to more actively cooperate with the United States in maintaining peace and stability in Asia. How can this tension be overcome? How do defense planners attempt to shape public perceptions of the military’s changing …
Tangoing with Schumpeter
Technological innovation affects nearly every aspect of a country’s economic and political relations, including its trade profile, industrial performance, national security, and military might. It thus comes to bear in profound ways on both the relative and absolute power of states. Joseph Schumpeter’s “gale of creative destruction” is also distributive in nature: innovation displaces the old with the new at the expense of vested interests (Schum…
Innovation and Alliances
Explanations for national success in science and technology typically focus on domestic institutions and policies. However, that line of research has yet to identify any particular set of institutions or policies that explain variation in national innovation rates across cases or over time. This article offers new evidence that the problem with domestic institutions approaches stems from their failure to consider international security factors. S…
Bridges over Troubled History
In the early nineteenth century, German political scientist and geographer Karl Haushofer coined the term “Pacific age” to describe the rapid growth of Japan, China, and India. “A giant space,” he wrote, “is expanding before our eyes with forces pouring into it ... the successor of the Atlantic age.”1 Despite the cataclysmic change in international affairs that would follow Haushofer's writing, scholars speak of a similar phenomenon today—the Asi…
Reexamining Threat Perception in Early Cold War Japan
This article discusses whether Japanese military and political elites perceived the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China (PRC) as threats during the Cold War. Realist scholars have argued that Japan's security alliance with the United States and the global balance of power were such that most Japanese officials did not perceive either of the Communist giants as a serious military threat. Reaching a similar conclusion but for starkly di…
Threat perception, government centralization, and political instrumentality in Abe Shinzo’s Japan
In this paper, we review the International Relations literature and derive from it certain expectations of how government centralization may affect threat assessment, and from these, generate formal hypotheses. We then test these against the evidence of the extensive structural changes within Japan’s national security apparatus and the government’s threat perception in the period spanning the first and second Abe administrations (2006–2018). Draw…
We Must Protect This Peace with Our Hands”
Japan’s national security identity and its elite strategic culture are at odds with each other, with the former moored to deep-rooted historical legacies and the latter yearning to adapt to contemporary imperatives, including the need to more actively cooperate with the United States in maintaining peace and stability in Asia. How can this tension be overcome? How do defense planners attempt to shape public perceptions of the military’s changing …
Cross-national and cross-sectoral dynamics of innovation policies
Sustainable technology increasingly relies on highly complex basic science, and basic research policies play a dominant role in the long-term process of sustainable technology innovation. The formation of socio-technological systems around green technology is closely linked to both the sustainable and industrial targets of nations. However, there is currently no formal model that encompasses various technology and cross-national sectors, which is…
Political science (7 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · National security (3 works) · Alliance (2 works)