Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics:

The United States and China in an Age of Indo-Pacific Transformation

YCAPS is proud to partner with the Institute for Contemporary Asian Studies(ICAS) to co-sponsor this upcoming book talk with author Kent Calder titled "Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics: The United States and China in an Age of Indo-Pacific Transformation"

Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics by Kent E. Calder examines the strategic geography of the sea lanes from Northeast Asia through the Indian Ocean to Europe, through which much of the world's energy and information flow. Calder shows how changing technology and economic patterns have profoundly transformed the global significance of those passageways since the end of the Cold War, with fateful consequences for the strategic calculations of both the United States and a rising China. The decline of the US shipping and shipbuilding sectors, coupled with the rise of their Chinese counterparts, is a major part of this hybrid equation.

The book provides readers a history of the changing economic role of the sea lanes as well as the decline of US maritime competitiveness. It chronicles how maritime flows of energy, commodities, and information through submarine cables have increased. Calder's clear eyed assessment documents the uncertainties relating to Eurasian sea lanes stretching from Taiwan to the Red Sea and beyond in the post-Ukraine world.

You can find the book available on Amazon here

Location:

Temple University, Japan Campus, Main Building Room 306

1-14-29 Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo

東京都世田谷区太子堂1-14-29

Google Maps: here

Schedule:

12:00 - Doors open

12:15 - book talk begins

13:30 - book talk finishes

RSVP by email to: dujarric@temple.edu

Speaker:

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).

Format: Questions are encouraged during the live event.

Registration: RSVP by email to: dujarric@temple.edu

Moderators: Robert Dujarric, Temple University Japan, Jeff Mazziotta, YCAPS

Seminar Cost: Free of charge

Co-Sponsor: Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS), Temple University Japan Campus