Japan Studies | Faculty

Kent E. Calder 
Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies
Director, Japan Studies

Contact Details:
kcalder@jhu.edu

Courses Taught:
Asian Energy Security , The Politics of Bases: Comparative Politics of Forward Deployment , The Japanese and Korean Political Economies in Comparative Perspective , Japanese Politics, Public Policy and Foreign Relations , Japan and International Finance

Education:
Ph.D. Harvard University (1979); M.A. in Government at Harvard University (1972); B.A. degree (Honors) in Political Science, University of Utah (1970)

Expertise:
Japan's domestic politics; Asia-Pacific security relations; Japan's Political Economy

Publications:
Strategic Capitalism: Private Business and Public Purpose in Japanese Industrial Finance.  Princeton Univ. Press, 1993.
Pacific Defense: Arms, Energy, and America’s Future in Asia. Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 1996.
Crisis and Compensation. Princeton Univ. Press, 1988.

Embattled Garrisons. Princeton Univ. Press, 2007.

Pacific Alliance: Reviving U.S.-Japan Relations. Yale Univ. Press, 2009.

Background:
Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asia Studies, SAIS and the Japan Studies Program; former professor for 20 years at Princeton University; Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; former lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University; served as the first Executive Director, Harvard University Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; former Special Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan; former Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, including Korea; currently a member of the Editorial Board of Asian Security; former Associate Editor of World Politics; Ph.D., government, Harvard University.