As last fall’s presidential election returns reminded us, massive trade imbalances in products ranging from textiles to automobiles to electronics are making Americans conscious of growing weaknesses in the industrial base of America’s heartland. Coupled with rising geopolitical tensions across the Pacific, Europe’s first major land war since 1945 made leaders of industrial democracies throughout […]
Author Archives: Kent E. Calder
Kent Calder is currently Director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS in Washington, DC. He also serves as Director of Japan Studies. He was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon in the Fall of 2014. Before arriving at Johns Hopkins SAIS in 2003, he taught for twenty years at Princeton University, was a Visiting Professor at Seoul National University, and Lecturer on Government at Harvard University. Calder has served as Special Advisor to the US Ambassador to Japan (1997-2001), Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (1989-1993 and 1996); and as the first Executive Director of Harvard University’s Program on US-Japan Relations, during 1979-1980. Calder received his PhD from Harvard University in 1979, where he worked under the direction of Edwin O. Reischauer.
