Kent W Calder

The Eastasia Edge

Pacific Defense: Arms, Energy, and America's Future in Asia

Crisis and Compensation: Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan, 1949-1986

Strategic Capitalism: Private Business and Public Purpose in Japanese Industrial Finance

Strategic Capitalism: Private Business and Public Purpose in Japanese Industrial Finance

Crisis and Compensation: Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan, 1949-1986

Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism

Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism

Singapore: Smart City, Smart State

How Singapore’s solutions to common problems can provide examples for other societies.Nearly everyone knows that Singapore has one of the most efficient governments and competitive, advanced economies in the world. But can this unique citystate of some 5.5 million residents also serve as a model for...

East Asian Multilateralism: Prospects for Regional Stability (Forum on Constructive Capitalism)

While the Iraq war and Middle East conflicts command the attention of the United States and most of the rest of the developed world, fundamental changes are occurring in East Asia. North Korea has tested nuclear weapons, even as it and South Korea have effectively entered a period of tepid détente; ...

Asia in Washington: Exploring the Penumbra of Transnational Power

For several centuries, international relations has been primarily the purview of nation-states. Key powers have included at various times Great Britain, France, Japan, China, Russia (then the U.S.S.R., and then Russia again), and the nation most influential in international relations for the past se...

Shin tairiku shugi : Nijuisseiki no enerugi pawa gemu.

By Kent Calder The Making of Northeast Asia (Studies in Asian Security)

The International Relations of Northeast Asia (Asia in World Politics)

Is Northeast Asia primed for peace or ripe for great-power rivalry? In this turbulent region, all the world-order challenges of arms control and disarmament, global North-South tensions, human rights and humanitarian intervention, environmental protection and eco-development, and democratization and...

The Making of Northeast Asia (Studies in Asian Security)

Northeast Asia, where the interests of three major nuclear powers and the world's two largest economies converge around the unstable pivot of the Korean peninsula, is a region rife with political-economic paradox. It ranks today among the most dangerous areas on earth, plagued by security problems o...

Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism

The overseas basing of troops has been a central pillar of American military strategy since World War II--and a controversial one. Are these bases truly essential to protecting the United States at home and securing its interests abroad--for example in the Middle East-or do they needlessly provoke a...