Berton, Peter

Professor Emeritus
School of International Relations
310-553-3330
berton@usc.edu

Peter Berton is an expert on the interaction and rivalry among major players in the Asia Pacific region, as well as international negotiation behavior.  His areas of expertise include: Chinese foreign policy, Japanese politics and foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, Russian relations with China, Japan and Korea, Japanese, Chinese and Russian negotiating behavior, territorial and maritime disputes in Eastern Asia, international and comparative Communism, and geopolitics in the 20th and 21st centuries.

He is the author of Japan on the Psychologist's Couch (2002), The Psychology of Japan's Foreign Relations (1999), Japan In the Asia-Pacific Balance of Power (2001), Japanese Communist Party and Its Transformations (2000), The Japanese-Russian Territorial Dilemma (1993), The Secret Russo-Japanese Alliance of 1916 (1988) and The Russo-Japanese Boundary (1967), as well as numerous articles on the international relations of the Pacific Rim.  Berton is also the co-author of Contemporary China (1967), The Russian Impact on Japan (1981) and The Fateful Choice: Japan's Advance into Southeast Asia, 1939-1941 (1980).  Additionally, he was the co-editor of International Negotiation: Actors, Structure/Process, Values (1999) and a contributor to the Guide to International Relations and Diplomacy (2002).