Southeast Asia Studies | Faculty

Karl D. Jackson
Director, Asian Studies
Director, Southeast Asia Studies
C.V. Starr Distinguished Professor of Southeast Asia Studies

Contact Details:
kdjackson@jhu.edu

Courses Taught:
Advanced Seminar on Asia
Domestic Politics of Southeast Asia: Thailand and the Philippines
Indonesia: Political Economy
International Relations of Asia: The Policy Process
International Relations of Southeast Asia
Political Cultures of Southeast Asia
Political Leadership in Southeast Asia

Education:
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.A., Princeton University

Expertise:
East Asia; Southeast Asia; Cambodia; Indonesia; Thailand; Vietnam; ASEAN; U.S.-Japanese economic relations

Selected Publications:
Asian Contagion: The Causes and Consequences of a Financial Crisis, editor (1999)
Cambodia 1975–1978: Rendezvous With Death (1989)
ASEAN in Regional and International Context (1986)
United States-Thailand Relations (1986)
ASEAN Security and Economic Development, editor (1984)
Traditional Authority, Islam and Rebellion: A Study of Indonesian Political Behavior (1980)
Political Power and Communications in Indonesia, co-editor (1978)
Various journals and articles

Current Projects:
Cultures of Democracy in Asia, a survey of 4,000 respondents in Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand during 2010.

Background:
Taught 19 years at University of California, Berkeley. Served as the national security advisor to the Vice President of the United States from 1991-1993, special assistant to the President and senior director for Asia at the National Security Council, 1989-91, and deputy assistant secretary of Defense for East Asia 1986-1989. In the business world,  Dr. Jackson has held positions as managing director, International Foreign Exchange Concepts, New York, N.Y., 1993-96, senior advisor at Cerberus Capital Partners, New York, N.Y., 2000-2004, and president of the U.S.-Thailand Business Council, 1994-2005.  He also served as advisor to the president of the World Bank and the executive vice president of the International Finance Corporation (2005-2007).  He joined the SAIS faculty in 1996.