Thinking the Unthinkable: The Need for Greater U.S.-Japan Dialogue on Taiwan
About the Author
Will Nelson taught on the JET Program from 2017-2019 in Aomori Prefecture. He is a Student Fellow at the Center for Security Policy Studies (CSPS) at George Mason University. As a current International Security M.A. student at George Mason University (GMU), his research interests focus on intelligence and strategic analysis with an emphasis on the rise of China in the Indo-Pacific and the political structure of authoritarian states.
In the summer of 2022, he worked as a Graduate Fellow at the US Indo-Pacific Command, focusing on the strategic implications of emerging Asian military technologies. He has also worked at the National Bureau of Asian Research, the Anti-Illicit Trade Institute at the Terrorism, Transnational Crime, and Corruption Center (TraCCC), and was a research assistant with the State Department’s Regional China Office, focusing on Chinese Digital Silk Road activities in Southeast Asia.
About JETs on Japan
The JETs on Japan Forum is a partnership between USJETAA and Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA (Sasakawa USA) that features selected articles of JET alumni perspectives on US-Japan relations. The series aims to elevate the awareness and visibility of JET alumni working across diverse sectors and provides a platform for JET alumni to contribute to a deeper understanding of US-Japan relations from their fields. The articles will be posted on USJETAA’s website to serve as a resource to the wider JET alumni and US-Japan communities on how alumni of this exchange program are continuing to serve as informal ambassadors in US-Japan relations.
Submissions are encouraged from mid-to-senior level professionals who are established in the current fields OR current/recent graduate degree students in both master’s and doctoral programs.
