William W. Grimes
William W. Grimes
Department of International Relations
154 Bay State Road
Room 400
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
(617) 353-9420
(617) 358-0190 fax
wgrimes@bu.edu
www.bu.edu/wgrimes
Associate Professor of International Relations, Director of the Center for the Study of Asia. (BA, Yale University; MPA, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; PhD, Princeton University)
Specialization: Japanese and East Asian Political Economy, Japanese Politics, International Political Economy.
William W. Grimes has taught in the IR Department at Boston University since 1996 and is the founding director of the BU Center for the Study of Asia, which was established in 2008. He spent 1995-96 as an Advanced Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Program on US-Japan Relations, and 1999-2000 as a Reischauer Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard’s Department of Government.
Grimes is the author of Unmaking the Japanese Miracle: Macroeconomic Politics, 1985-2000 (Cornell University Press, 2001) and co-editor (with Ulrike Schaede) of Japan’s Managed Globalization: Adapting to the 21 st Century (M.E. Sharpe, 2002). His new book, Currency and Contest in East Asia: The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism was published by Cornell University Press in 2008. He has 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. His current research focuses on competition among financial market centers in East Asia.
Grimes has spent time as a visiting researcher at the Japanese Ministry of Finance in 1992-93, 1999, 2000, and 2005 and as a visitor at the Bank of Japan in 2001. He has been the recipient of various fellowships and awards over the years, including two Fulbright fellowships and a book-writing grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. He is an active lecturer in Japan and the United States in both academic and policy venues and has been recognized for his teaching and advising at Boston University.
Professor Grimes teaches the following courses:
Contemporary East Asian Economics (IR/EC 368)
Southeast Asia in World Politics (IR 369)
The State and Public Purpose in Asia (IR 520/PO 562)
Japan in International Politics (IR/PO 579)
Japanese Political Economy (IR 765/PO 759)