Chalmers Johnson
Chalmers Johnson is a professor emeritus of the
University of California, San Diego.
He is also president and one of the founders of the
Japan Policy Research Institute, an organization promoting public education about Japan and south east Asia. He has written several books, including the best-selling
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
(ISBN 0805062394) and
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
(ISBN 0805070044).
Chalmers Johnson was born in 1931 in Phoenix, Arizona. He has a M.A. and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and was teaching political science at this university from 1962 until 1992, when he retired.
He served as chairman of the Center for Chinese Studies at Berkeley from 1967 until 1972.
His book Blowback won an American Book Award in 2001 from the Before
Columbus Foundation.
