Kent E. Calder
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor
Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies
About
Kent E. Calder directs the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and 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.
Prior to SAIS, Calder served as 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 as the first executive director of Harvard University’s Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Calder received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he worked under the direction of Edwin O. Reischauer.
A specialist in East Asian political economy, Calder lived and researched in Japan for eleven years and across East Asia for four years. In 2014, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. Calder's recent publications include: Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics (2025); Global Political Cities: Actors and Arenas of Influence in International Affairs (2021); Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration (2019); Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan (2018); Singapore: Smart City, Smart State (2017); Asia in Washington (2014); and The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First Century Eurasian Geopolitics (2012).
Prior to SAIS, Calder served as 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 as the first executive director of Harvard University’s Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Calder received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he worked under the direction of Edwin O. Reischauer.
A specialist in East Asian political economy, Calder lived and researched in Japan for eleven years and across East Asia for four years. In 2014, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. Calder's recent publications include: Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics (2025); Global Political Cities: Actors and Arenas of Influence in International Affairs (2021); Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration (2019); Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan (2018); Singapore: Smart City, Smart State (2017); Asia in Washington (2014); and The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First Century Eurasian Geopolitics (2012).
- Calder, Kent E. Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics: The United States and China in an Age of Indo-Pacific Transformation. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2025.
- Calder, Kent E. and Neave Denny (co-editors), Asia and the Challenge of Covid 19. Washington, D.C.: Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University SAIS, 2022.
- Calder, Kent E. Global Political Cities. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, January, 2021.
- Calder, Kent E. Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019.
- Calder, Kent E. Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017.
- Calder, Kent E. Singapore: Smart City, Smart State. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2016.
- Calder, Kent E. Asia in Washington: Exploring the Penumbra of Transnational Power. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2014.
- Calder, Kent E. The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First Century Eurasian Geopolitics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
- Calder, Kent E. and Min Ye. The Making of Northeast Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.
- Calder, Kent E. Pacific Alliance: Reviving U.S.-Japan Relations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
- Calder, Kent E. and Francis Fukuyama (co-editors). East Asian Multilateralism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
- Calder, Kent E. Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007