Hikotani Takako

Professor Hikotani is Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy, Columbia University. She was previously at the National Defense Academy of Japan. She was also a SSRC/Abe Fellow at Princeton University from 2009-2011. Her publications (in English) include, “Trump’s Gift to Japan: Time for Tokyo to Invest in the Liberal Order,” Foreign Affairs, September/October 2017, and “Japan’s New Executive Leadership: How Electoral Rules Make Japanese Security Policy” (with Margarita Estevez-Abe and Toshio Nagahisa). She received her B.A. from Keio University, M.As from Keio University and Stanford University, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, where she was a President’s Fellow.