JHU SAIS Professor Kent Calder Publishes New Book on U.S.-Japan Relations

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JHU SAIS Professor Kent Calder Publishes New Book on U.S.-Japan Relations

Washington, D.C.-05/19/2009 -Kent E. Calder, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor and director of the Japan Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), has published Pacific Alliance: Reviving U.S.-Japan Relations.

In Pacific Alliance, released today by Yale University Press, Calder presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of the U.S.-Japan alliance and its political, economic and social foundations. He asserts that bilateral relations between the two countries are dangerously eroding as both seek broader options in a globally oriented world.

Calder documents the quiet erosion of America's multi-dimensional ties with Japan as China rises, generations change, and new forces arise in both American and Japanese politics. He then assesses consequences for a 21st-century military alliance with formidable coordination requirements; explores alternative foreign paradigms for dealing with the United States, adopted by Britain, Germany and China; and offers prescriptions for restoring U.S.-Japan relations to vitality once again.

Calder, who also serves as director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at SAIS, previously was special adviser to the U.S. ambassador to Japan and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is author of several other books, including Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and Pacific Defense.

SAIS is one of the country's leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international relations. Located along Embassy Row in Washington's Dupont Circle area, the school enrolls approximately 600 full-time graduate students and mid-career professionals and has trained more than 15,000 alumni in all aspects of international affairs. SAIS also has campuses in Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, China.