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T.J. Pempel

Professor of Political Science

View Professor Pempel's Curriculum Vitae in PDF format.

T. J. Pempel (Ph.D., Columbia) joined Berkeley's Political Science Department in July 2001 and served as director of the Institute of East Asian Studies from 2002 until 2006. There he held 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. 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 (Stanford 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). 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 one hundred scholarly 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 U.S. foreign policy and Asian regionalism.

Course Syllabi (in PDF format)

• Political Science 143B - Northeast Asian Politics: Japan - Spring 2009
• Political Science 191-3 - American Foreign Policy Toward Asia - Spring 2009
• Political Science 249P - Asian Regionalism - Spring 2009
• Political Science 249A - Asian Regionalism - Spring 2007
• Political Science 143b - Northeast Asia Politics - Fall 2004
• Political Science 243c - Politics of Contemporary Japan - Fall 2003

Read Professor Pempel's July, 2005 interview by the University of South Carolina's Japan Considered program

• How Bush Bungled Asia
• Mike Green's Response
• Pempel Response to Green
• Unbungling Asia
• Learning to Lose is for Losers
• Japan Should Rebalance
• Japanese Strategy under Koizumi
• Japan Rethinks Its Security
• Revisitng the Japanese Economic Model
• Japan: a new move toward bilateral trade agreements
• Race to Connect Asia