Return to Faculty List Amy Searight Ph.D. Stanford University; Assistant Professor. Amy E. Searight's research and teaching interests are in international political economy and Japan. Her dissertation, MITI and Multilateralism: The Evolution of Japan's Trade Policy in the GATT Regime, examines changes in Japan's multilateral trade behavior brought about by the interaction of international and domestic trade institutions. She has also written on the political determinants of US-Japan trade disputes. Professor Searight has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Ministry of Finance, Japan, and an advanced research fellow at the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University. [searight@northwestern.edu]