Kent Calder
Kent Calder current serves as Vice Dean for Education and Academic Affairs, as well as Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University SAIS. He is the author of fourteen books on East Asian political economy, energy geopolitics, comparative urban politics, and Japanese politics, including most recently Global Political Cities (Brookings, 2021); Super Continent (Stanford, 2019); Circles of Compensation (Stanford, 2017); Singapore: Smart City, Smart...See more
Kent Calder current serves as Vice Dean for Education and Academic Affairs, as well as Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University SAIS. He is the author of fourteen books on East Asian political economy, energy geopolitics, comparative urban politics, and Japanese politics, including most recently Global Political Cities (Brookings, 2021); Super Continent (Stanford, 2019); Circles of Compensation (Stanford, 2017); Singapore: Smart City, Smart State (Brookings, 2016); Asia in Washington (Brookings, 2014); and The New Continentalism (Yale, 2012). Calder was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon in 2014, for his contribution to US-Japan relations, and to the academic study of Japan. See less
