Former Senior Advisor for East Asia Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense
James L. Schoff is a senior associate in the Carnegie Asia Program. He previously served as senior advisor for East Asia policy at the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense and as director of Asia Pacific Studies at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis. His publications include a chapter on Japan in Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age; Power, Ambition, and the Ultimate Weapon, Nuclear Matters in North Korea: Building a Multilateral Response for Future Stability in Northeast Asia, and Tools for Trilateralism: Improving U.S.-Japan-Korea Cooperation to Manage Complex Contingencies.