Department of International Relations
Associate Chairman, Associate Professor of International Relations.

William Grimes‘s primary areas of interest include Japanese and East Asian political economy, Japanese politics, and international political economy.  He is the author of Unmaking the Japanese Miracle: Macroeconomic Politics, 1985-2000 (2001) and co-editor of Japan's Managed Globalization: Adapting to the 21st Century (2002).  He has also published articles, book chapters, monographs, and commentary on East Asian financial regionalism, the impacts of financial globalization in Japan, Japanese monetary policy making, US-Japan relations, and related topics.  Professor Grimes's current research is on East Asian financial regionalism, with a focus on Japan's role in creating regional institutions. 

For more information, see: www.bu.edu/wgrimes

Courses:

Undergraduate:
Contemporary East Asian Economics (CAS IR 368/EC 368)
Southeast Asia in World Politics (CAS IR 369)
The State and Public Purpose in Asia (CAS IR 520/PO 562)
Japan in International Politics (CAS IR 579/PO 579)
           
Graduate:
Japanese Political Economy (CAS IR 765/PO 759)

Professor Grimes is not teaching in the Fall 2006 semester. His courses are being offered by visiting instructors Julian Blake and Daniel Aldrich.