Kent E. Calder
· Edwin O. Reischauer Professor, Director of the Edwin O.Johns Hopkins University · Advanced International Studies
Active 1982–2025
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About
Kent E. Calder is the Edwin O. Reischauer Professor and Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He has previously served as the school's Interim Dean in 2021, Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and International Research Cooperation from 2018 to 2020, and director of Asia Programs from 2016 to 2018. Calder received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he worked under the direction of Edwin O. Reischauer. He is a specialist in East Asian political economy, having lived and researched in Japan for eleven years and across East Asia for four years. Calder has held positions as a special advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), professor at Princeton University, lecturer on government at Harvard, and the first executive director of Harvard University’s Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. His research focuses on Asian energy security, geopolitics, and international political economy, with recent publications addressing Eurasian maritime geopolitics, global political cities, and Eurasian integration.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Business
- Computer Science
- Market economy
- Economy
- Economic system
- Economic history
- Law
- Economics
- Political economy
Selected publications
2021 · 48 citations
1st authorCorrespondingStanford University Press eBooks · 2020 · 35 citations
1st authorCorrespondingJapan grew explosively and consistently for more than a century, from the Meiji Restoration until the collapse of the economic bubble in the early 1990s. Since then, it has been unable to restart its economic engine and respond to globalization. How could the same political–economic system produce such strongly contrasting outcomes? This book identifies the crucial variables as classic Japanese forms of socio-political organization: the "circles of compensation." These cooperative groupings of e…
The Covid Shock, American Domestic Transformation, and Transpacific Relations
2025-01-01
other1st authorCorresponding3 Linking Land and Sea: The Transformation of Eurasia’s Rimlands
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers eBooks · 2025-01-01
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingRowman & Littlefield Publishers eBooks · 2025-01-01
book1st authorCorrespondingReviews the strategic geography of the sea lanes from Northeast Asia through the Indian Ocean to Europe since the Middle Ages, noting how changing technology and economic patterns have transformed the global significance of those passage ways, especially since the end of the Cold War. Begins with a survey of the geography itself, and of how rimland nations such as India, Indonesia, and the Gulf configure it. A history of the changing economic role of the sea lanes complements that geographic ass…
Frequent coauthors
- 132 shared
Atul Kohli
- 106 shared
George W. Downs
- 98 shared
Nancy Bermeo
- 98 shared
Paul E. Sigmund
- 91 shared
Richard Challener
- 90 shared
John Waterbury
- 79 shared
Gilbert Rozman
- 79 shared
Robert L. Tignor
Awards & honors
- Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon (2014)
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