Phillip Y. Lipscy is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, California and the Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. His fields of research include international relations, international organizations, international and comparative political economy, and the politics of East Asia, particularly Japan. Lipscy obtained his Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University, Massachusetts and his M.A. in international policy studies and B.A. in economics and political science at Stanford University, California.