T. J. Pempel

T. J. Pempel (Ph.D., Columbia) joined the Political Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley in July 2001 and was the director of the Institute of East Asian Studies from January 2002 until 2007. He holds the Il Han New Chair in Asian Studies.

Just prior to coming to Berkeley, he was at the University of Washington at Seattle where he was the Boeing Professor of International Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies and an adjunct professor in Political Science. From 1972 to 1991, he was on the faculty at Cornell University; he was also Director of Cornell's East Asia Program. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Colorado and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Professor Pempel's research and teaching focus on comparative politics, political economy, contemporary Japan, and Asian regionalism. His recent books include "Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region" (Cornell University Press), "Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific" (Oxford University Press), "The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis", "Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy", and "Uncommon Democracies: The One-Party Dominant Regimes" (all from Cornell University Press), and "The Japanese Civil Service and Economic Development: Catalysts of Development", a jointly edited book sponsored by the World Bank (Oxford University Press). Earlier books include "Policymaking in Contemporary Japan" (Cornell University Press), "Trading Technology: Europe and Japan in the Middle East" (Praeger), and "Policy and Politics in Japan: Creative Conservatism" (Temple University Press). In addition, he has published over eighty articles and chapters in books.

Professor Pempel is Chair of the Working Group on Northeast Asian Security of CSCAP, is on editorial boards of several professional journals, and serves on various committees of the American Political Science Association, the Association for Asian Studies, and the Social Science Research Council. He is currently doing research on various problems associated with Asian regionalism and U.S. foreign policy.

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