He has authored or edited three books and more than 60 peer reviewed articles, reviews, and editorials. He has been a visiting scholar at the Japanese Ministry of Finance, the Institute for Social Science at Tokyo University, Harvard University, the Tata Institute for Social Science in Mumbai, the Institut d’etudes politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and the East West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from Harvard University, USA, an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.