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Devin T. Stewart

Editor, Policy Innovations

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, Global Policy Innovations

170 East 64th Street New York, NY 10065-7478 U.S.A. Phone: (212) 838-4120 Fax: (212) 752-2432 dstewart@cceia.org

Devin T. Stewart is Senior Fellow and Director of the Global Policy Innovations program at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. In this capacity, he edits Policy Innovations and directs projects on business ethics, trade, energy, and new media. He is the founding editor of Carnegie Ethics Online. Previously, he was Assistant Director of Studies and Japan Studies Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. He is a CSIS Adjunct Fellow, a Next Generation Fellow, a Truman Security Fellow, an adviser to Sustainable Profitability Group, and an adjunct assistant professor at New York University.

From 2000 to 2003, Devin was a researcher at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry and in 2004 a staff writer for The Daily Yomiuri in Tokyo. He also chaired the Korea-Japan Study Group in Tokyo and in Washington. He was a researcher at the Japan External Trade Organization New York and has served on the staffs of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski. In 1994, he interned at the Washington Office of U.S. Senator Joseph Biden, Jr.

Devin's articles have appeared in more than ten languages in numerous publications, including The American Interest, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, SAIS Review, The Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, Current History, the Asahi Shimbun, Prospect Magazine, The Globalist, the Japan Times, and The National Interest. He has been featured in or interviewed by Dow Jones, AFP, Reuters, Press TV, Xinhua, Jiji Press, BBC, Bloggingheads.tv, Al Jazeera, and CCTV. Blogs he has contributed to include the Huffington Post, Fairer Globalization, the Ethical Blogger, and TPM Cafe. He is author of the Japan chapter in Energy Security Challenges for the 21st Century: A Reference Handbook (Praeger Security International 2009).

He received a B.A., cum laude, from the University of Delaware where he won a scholarship to study Arab immigration in France. He holds an M.A. from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., and Bologna, Italy. He is a recipient of the Nakasone Scholarship for the Aspen Institute's Socrates Society meeting.

Focus: Democracy, Energy, Globalization, Governance, Security, Trade, Sustainability, Japan, United States, China, Asia, Americas

Related Resources:

• China's State Capitalism Poses Ethical Challenges (Commentary)
• Student Attitudes Surveyed (Briefings)
• Buying Green Bonds (Audio)
• The "China Model" Illusion (Audio)
• The Rise of State Capitalism (Videos)
• Review: The End of the Free Market (Commentary)
• China in the 21st Century (Audio)
• Teaching Climate Civics (Audio)
• An Activist Battles Corruption in Angola (Audio)
• Rise of the Rest III (Videos)
• Toyota Is a Symptom of Japan's Decline (Commentary)
• Global Jobs Update (Videos)
• A Question of Values: Google in China, Chinese Products, and Civil Society (Audio)
• The Right to Move Conference Papers (Briefings)
• Reconciling an Ethical Immigration Policy with the Nation-state Myth (Commentary)
• Defining a Right to Move? (Briefings)
• Web 2.0 and Corporate Accountability (Videos)
• Civilizing Globalization: Human Rights and the Global Economy (Briefings)
• Think Again: Japan's Revolutionary Election (Commentary)
• Under the Cover: Global Corruption Report 2009 (Innovations)
• Japan: The Power of Efficiency (Policy Library)
• U.S.-Japan Cooperation Needed in Financial Crisis (Audio)
• A Realistic Japan Policy for the Obama Administration (Briefings)
• How Japan Became an Efficiency Superpower (Briefings)
• Ethics as Risk Mitigation (Briefings)
• Is Ethical Capitalism Possible? (Commentary)
• Beijing Delegation (Videos)
• Fixing Fragile States (Audio)
• Ethical Issues in U.S.-Asia Policy (Videos)
• The Shape of the World to Come (Briefings)
• Can Web 2.0 Revolutionize Corporate Responsibility? (Briefings)
• The Shape of the World to Come (Videos)
• Can Web 2.0 Revolutionize Corporate Responsibility? (Videos)
• Green Jobs Transcript (Briefings)
• Green Jobs (Videos)
• The Myth of the Nation-State (Commentary)
• The New MAD World (Commentary)
• The Rise of the Rest: How the Ascent of China and Russia Affects Global Business and Security (Briefings)
• The Rise of the Rest (Videos)
• The Economic and Strategic Rise of China and India (Briefings)
• The Economic and Strategic Rise of China and India (Videos)
• Networks Power Globalization (Briefings)
• Olympic Mettle (Videos)
• China's Earthquake After Shock (Briefings)
• Ethical Blogger at the Korea Society (Videos)
• Damming Public Opinion (Commentary)
• Maquilapolis: City of Factories (Briefings)
• Black Gold Shows Bitter Trade Problems (Briefings)
• Can "Responsible Stakeholder" Hold? (Commentary)
• Trade Policy for Humanity (Commentary)
• A Kite Runner Approach to Understanding Corruption (Briefings)
• Hu's on First? (Policy Library)
• Searching for the Ethical Blogger (Commentary)
• The Impulse to Truck and Trade (Commentary)
• Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Website Redesign (Briefings)
• Popular Articles from Year One (Briefings)
• Event Summary: The Ethics of Climate Change (Briefings)
• The Ethics of Climate Change and the Carbon Economy (Audio)
• China's Vulnerable Brand (Policy Library)
• China's More Responsible Future (Policy Library)
• China's Primal Scream (Commentary)
• Corruption Ebbs in Africa (Commentary)
• Alternative Leadership Still Requires Ethics (Policy Library)
• Chinese Sexual Culture (Commentary)
• Devin Stewart Interviews Jack Marr on China (Audio)
• Estados Unidos Debe Redefinir el Comercio Justo (Commentary)
• The Arab Economies in a Changing World (Audio)
• Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform (Audio)
• Policy Innovations Launches into Blogosphere (Briefings)
• United States Must Redefine "Fair Trade" (Commentary)
• Yuan Revaluation Debate (Policy Library)
• Korea at Center of Major Shift (Policy Library)
• North Korea's Nuclear Detonation (Audio)
• China's New-Rich and Global Responsibility (Policy Library)
• Ian Bremmer Interviewed by Devin Stewart on "The J Curve" (Audio)
• The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (Commentary)
• Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements (Policy Library)
• China-Japan Oil Rivalry Spills Over into Africa (Policy Library)
• Hedging China with FTAs (Policy Library)
• U.S.–Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement: Cementing a Geostrategic Economic Relationship (Policy Library)
• Bolstering American Influence in Asia (Policy Library)
• A U.S.–Japan Economic Partnership: Beyond Economics, Geopolitical Insurance (Policy Library)

Selected Publications:

"Slowing Japan's Galapagos Syndrome," the Huffington Post, April 29, 2010. 

"Toyota and the End of Japan," Newsweek (cover story), March 5, 2010. 

"Think Again: Japan's Revolutionary Election," Foreign Policy, Oct. 2009, with Paul Scalise. 

"Hu's on First?" The National Interest, Nov./Dec. 2007, with Joshua Kurlantzick.

"Asiaplex Toolbox: Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements," The American Interest, Autumn 2006, with Sherman Katz. 

"U.S.-Japan Comprehensive Partnership Agreement: Cementing a Geostrategic Economic Relationship," SAIS Review, Summer/Fall 2003, coauthored with Robert Fauver.

"A U.S.-Japan Economic Partnership: Beyond Economics, Geopolitical Insurance," In The National Interest, November 2002, coauthored with Robert Fauver.

"Healthy Competition From China Is Good For Japan," International Herald Tribune, August 30, 2001.

"Japan’s Spontaneous Support for War," Asia Times, February 14, 2003.

"Japan’s Place in the Coalition Against Terrorism," Asia Times, November 3, 2001.

"The Threat to Japan’s Economy is Japan, Not China," PacNet Newsletter, CSIS, August 24, 2001.

"Shock Therapy for Japan’s Depression," The Asian Wall Street Journal, May 28, 2002, coauthored with Robert Fauver.

"Japan Needs Foreigners to Find Its Bad Debts," The Asahi Shimbun, January 4, 2002, coauthored with Jonathan Kushner.

"On Your Mark, Get Set, Liberalize," The Daily Yomiuri, January 1, 2004.

"Northeast Asia: Korea at Center of Major Shift," Asia Pacific Century: A New Era, Dec. 2006, coauthor of edited volume.

"Yuan Devaluation Debate Shows Link Between Economics, Politics," Asia Pacific Century: A New Era, Dec. 2006, coauthor.

"China’s New-Rich and Global Responsibility," The Globalist, Sept. 29, 2006, with Joshua Eisenman.

"China, My China," The National Interest, Spring 2006, with Sherman Katz.

"U.S. Formula for China," Asia Times Online, Nov. 9, 2005, with Larry Wortzel.

"China’s Transition Merits Caution," Japan Inc., December 2002, coauthored with Duncan Wrigley.

"China-Japan Oil Rivalry Spills Over Into Africa," International Herald Tribune, Dec. 9, 2005, with Joshua Eisenman.

"J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall," Ethics & International Affairs, 2006 Vol. 20 No. 4.

"Bolstering American Influence in Asia," The Asian Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2003, coauthored with James Farrer.

Specialization:

Japan-China economic and political relations; U.S. foreign policy toward Asia; technology and civil society; ethics in trade and energy policy.

Other:

Chairman, Korea-Japan Study Group, Washington D.C. and Tokyo Chapters

Truman Security Fellow, Truman National Security Project

Adjunct Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC

Director, Carnegie New Leaders

Senior Consulting Associate, Sustainable Profitability Group, New York City

Consultant, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC

Consultant, International Risk, Tokyo, Washington, D.C.

Consultant, Gerson Lehrman Group

Member, Advisory Board, Columbia University Earth Institute, Fetzer Symposium 

Member, US Committee, Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP)

Member, Advisory Committee, Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP), New York City

Founder, Tokyo Progressive Forum (affiliated with Democrats Abroad Japan), Tokyo

Commencement speaker, Bard College Globalization and International Affairs Program

Commencement speaker, Wellesley in the World, Wellesley College

Keynote speaker, “Fair trade and U.S. foreign policy,” UN Association

Panelist, "The Case of China and Africa," New School University

Panelist, "Symposium on Universities, Democratic Culture and Human Rights," University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Panelist, "China's Soft Power," Core Club

Speaker, "Think tanks and civil society," New York University

Speaker, "Innovations in Fighting Corruption," SAIS, Johns Hopkins University

Speaker, "Ethics in International Affairs," University of Delaware

Speaker, "Ethics in International Affairs," Saint-Petersburg State University

Speaker, "Ethics in International Trade," University of Pennsylvania, Department of International Relations, Philadelphia

Speaker, “Bringing Everyone to the Table,” The Asia Society, Washington, D.C.

Speaker, Florida International Summit 2006: Globalization and Technology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

Speaker, "U.S.-Japan Economic Partnership," Temple University, Tokyo

Panelist, Dialogue Among a New Generation on the Future of the U.S.-Japan Alliance, CSIS, Washington, D.C.

Participant, World Economic Forum, Global Risks Workshop, New York City

Participant, Japan-U.S. Leadership Network Program 2007, Washington, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto

Participant, U.S. Russia-Experts Forum 2007, Washington, Moscow, St. Petersburg

Participant, Association for Communication of Transcultural Study, Zao, Japan

Panelist, Professional Writing Seminar (four consecutive workshops), CSIS, Washington, D.C.

Member, Washington and Southeast Regional Japan Seminar, Washington, D.C.

Former Member, Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, Tokyo

Former Member, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, Tokyo

Volunteer, Habitat for Humanity, Florida

Language Fluency:

English

Last Updated: Sep 02, 2010