- An academic article on what I call the “Alliance Village,” the relatively small community of bureaucrats, pundits and academics who help maintain the U.S.-Japan security alliance. I intend to provide a cluster map showing interconnected groups and individuals on both sides of the Pacific.
- An academic book on U.S. military bases in Japan (where more than 50,000 troops are stationed) and South Korea (30,000). I want to understand how even center-left regimes in Tokyo and Seoul, after running on a pledge to reduce the U.S. military footprint, have ignored that campaign promise and bowed to demands from Washington D.C.
- A non-academic book (perhaps entitled “Cooperation and Capitalism”) about cooperative enterprises in Minnesota and Washington state.
- A non-academic book about the 1981 murder of Gene Viernes and Silme Domingo, labor union reformers and anti-Marcos activists in Seattle. (I was friends with Gene.) The story is more than a who-dunnit (although that piece is fascinating, too); it also tells how different generations of Filipino-Americans embraced and confronted the dominant culture and politics in two countries.