Chalmers Ashby Johnson was an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics, and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego.
18 Facts About Chalmers Johnson
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Chalmers Johnson served in the Korean War, was a consultant for the CIA from 1967 to 1973 and chaired the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley from 1967 to 1972.
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Chalmers Johnson was president and co-founder with Steven Clemons of the Japan Policy Research Institute, an organization that promotes public education about Japan and Asia.
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Chalmers Johnson was born in 1931 in Phoenix, Arizona, to David Frederick Chalmers Johnson Jr.
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Chalmers Johnson earned a BA in economics in 1953 and an MA and a PhD in political science in 1957 and 1961, respectively.
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Chalmers Johnson met his wife, Sheila, a junior at Berkeley, in 1956, and they married in Reno, Nevada, in May 1957.
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Chalmers Johnson was a communications officer on the USS La Moure County, which ferried Chinese prisoners of war from South Korea back to ports in North Korea.
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Chalmers Johnson taught political science at the University of California from 1962 until he retired from teaching in 1992.
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Chalmers Johnson was best known early in his career for his scholarship on the subjects of China and Japan.
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Chalmers Johnson set the agenda for 10 or 15 years in social science scholarship on China, with his book on peasant nationalism.
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Chalmers Johnson was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976.
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Chalmers Johnson served as Director of the Center for Chinese Studies and Chair of the Political Science Department at Berkeley, and he held a number of important academic posts in area studies.
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Chalmers Johnson was a strong believer in the importance of language and historical training for conducting serious research.
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Chalmers Johnson was featured as an expert talking head in the Eugene Jarecki-directed film Why We Fight, which won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Chalmers Johnson wrote for the Los Angeles Times, the London Review of Books, Harper's, and The Nation.
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Chalmers Johnson believed that the enforcement of American hegemony over the world constitutes a new form of global empire.
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Chalmers Johnson summarized the intent of the Blowback series in the final chapter of Nemesis.
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In 2010, Chalmers Johnson died after a long illness from complications of rheumatoid arthritis at his home, in Cardiff-by-the-Sea.