Michael Beeman

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Michael Beeman, PhD

  • Visiting Scholar at APARC, 2022-24

Biography

Dr. Beeman is a Visiting Scholar at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) through 2024, where he researches and writes about trade policy issues such as economic security between the United States and Asia. He has also taught international policy as a lecturer with the Ford Dorsey Masters in International Policy program. 

From January 2017 until January 2023, he was Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan, Korea and APEC at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). In that role, he led the renegotiation of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement and the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement, among other initiatives. Prior to this, he served in other capacities at USTR and, between 1998 and 2004, at the U.S. Department of Commerce.  He received his D.Phil. (Ph.D.) in Politics from the University of Oxford in 1998 and an M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1991.  He is the author of Walking Out: America’s New Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond (Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2024) and Public Policy and Economic Competition in Japan (Routledge, 2003). 

publications

Books
October 2024

Walking Out

Author(s)
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In The News

Walking Out: America’s New Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond
News

Walking Out: New Book Unravels the Shift in America's Trade Policy and Its Global Consequences

A new book by APARC Visiting Scholar Michael Beeman offers a timely analysis of the shift in United States' foreign trade policy, examines its recent choices to “walk out” on the principles that had defined the global trade system it had created, and offers recommendations for a redefined and more productive trade policy strategy.
cover link Walking Out: New Book Unravels the Shift in America's Trade Policy and Its Global Consequences
Panelists gather to discuss APEC
News

Trade Experts Gather to Discuss APEC’s Role and Relevance

Ahead of the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) convening in San Francisco, APARC kicked off its fall seminar series, Exploring APEC’s Role in Facilitating Regional Cooperation, with a panel discussion that examined APEC’s role and continued relevance in a rapidly-evolving Asia-Pacific region.
cover link Trade Experts Gather to Discuss APEC’s Role and Relevance
Leaders at G7 summit
Commentary

G-7 Should Form United Front Versus China: Ex-U.S. Trade Official

Michael Beeman sees the group discussing trade sanctions that align with the U.S.
cover link G-7 Should Form United Front Versus China: Ex-U.S. Trade Official