Department of Political Science
Andrew L. Oros
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies
E-mail: aoros2@washcoll.edu
Phone: (800) 422-1782, ext. 7436
Office: Goldstein 225
Education
- B.A., University of Southern California, 1991
- M.S., University of London, 1992
- M.Phil., Columbia University, 1997
- Ph.D, Columbia University, 2002
Office Hours
TTh 11:15-11:45am & 2:30-3:30pm
Web Site
Biography
Professor Oros is a specialist on the international and comparative politics of East Asia and the advanced industrial democracies, with an emphasis on contending approaches to managing security and on the linkage between domestic and international politics. He is the author of Normalizing Japan: Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice (Stanford University Press, 2008) and the co-editor of and contributor to Japan's New Defense Establishment: Institutions, Capabilities, and Implications (Stimson Center, 2007), Can Japan Come Back? (Pacific Council, 2003), and Culture in World Politics (Macmillan Press, 1998). He also has shared his research in over a dozen scholarly articles, numerous mass-media quotations, and lectures to policymakers in Washington, DC, Berlin, Tokyo, Beijing, and elsewhere.
At Washington College, Professor Oros offers a number of courses related East Asia, Europe, and American foreign policy in addition to introductory courses on political science and world politics. His current research interests include an examination of recent changes to Japan's security posture (such as the "nuclear option" and recent acquisition of surveillance satellites and missile defense capabilities), cross-national efforts to reform intelligence-gathering organizations, possibilities for U.S.-Japan-China trilateral security cooperation, and active learning approaches to teaching political science. In his courses, he stresses the linkages between theory and practice, drawing on recent media reporting to supplement the study of historical cases. He uses structured classroom debates in most of his courses. Prior to coming to Washington College, he taught courses at George Washington, American, and Columbia universities.
A Southern California native, Prof. Oros also has studied at three universities in Japan: Nanzan University in Nagoya (1987-88), Osaka University of Foreign Studies (1989-90), and the University of Tokyo (1997-99), and was the first American invited research fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo, Japan in the summer of 2009. Prior to earning his Ph.D, he worked as the editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies and as a studies associate for the Pacific Council on International Policy, the western partner of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations. In his spare time, Professor Oros enjoys swimming, biking, kayaking, tennis, and traveling. A selection of travel photos over his time at Washington College are linked to his website.
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