[[{“type”:“media”,“view_mode”:“media_large”,“fid”:null,“attributes”:{“class”:“media-image alignright size-full wp-image-1606”,“typeof”:“foaf:Image”,“style”:“”,“width”:“100”,“height”:“100”,“alt”:“New York Times”}}]]Writing in The New York Times on the 50th anniversary of Attorney General Robert Kennedy’s visit to Japan in the wake of a 1960 security treaty crisis that nearly killed the U.S.-Japan alliance, Assistant Professor of Government Jennifer Lind suggests that those events “hold important lessons for today’s problems in the alliance, and indeed for U.S. alliance relationships all over the world.”

“The rupture and repair of the U.S.-Japan alliance in the 1960s,” Lind writes in the Times, “yield important lessons for U.S. diplomacy. At the time of the security crisis, the alliance was precariously narrow—a military marriage of convenience between Washington and a sliver of Japan’s elite. Fifty years after Robert Kennedy’s visit, Americans should celebrate the alliance’s transformation into an enduring, multilayered relationship. At the same time, America should also learn from its previous failures.”

Read the full story, published 2/5/12 by The New York Times.