Dr. Naoi is an Associate Professor of Political Science at University of California, San Diego. Her research interests bridge the fields of international and comparative political economy with particular interests in the politics of trade in East Asia, especially in Japan. Naoi is the author of Building Legislative Coalitions for Free Trade in Asia(Cambridge University Press, 2015), which examines how party leaders liberalized trade in post-War Japan and Thailand by buying off legislative support with side-payments such as pork barrel projects. Her other works have appeared in American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly and others. Naoi received a Ph.D. from Columbia University and M.A. and B.A. from Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
