Katada, Saori

Associate Professor
School of International Relations
213-740-8542
skatada@usc.edu

Professor Katada studies how relations among developed countries affect the political economy of development. Her special interests include international financial and monetary relations, foreign aid, and foreign investments that involve both the United States and Japan, as well as other countries in Asia and Latin America. Her most recent work focuses on the study of regionalism. She is also interested in the integration of qualitative and quantitative research methods.
 
Education:
Ph.D. (Political Science), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
 
Selected Publications:
Banking on Stability: Japan and the Cross-Pacific Dynamics of International Financial Crisis Management, University of Michigan Press, 2001.

"Why did Japan Suspend Foreign Aid to China? Japan's Foreign Aid Decision-making and Sources of Aid Sanction," Social Science Japan Journal, April, 2001.

"Aid Politics and Electoral Politics: Japan 1970-1992," with Timothy J. McKeown, International Studies Quarterly, 1998.

"Two Aid Hegemons: Japanese-American Interactions and Aid Allocations to Latin America and the Caribbean," World Development 25, 16, June 1997.
 
Honors and Awards:
USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, College Awards for Research Excellence, 1997-1998