Welcome
I am Research Professor-in-Residence and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the School of International Service, American University. I am also a Nonresident Scholar in the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
My CV is available here.
My current research includes new actors, networks, and patterns of governance in international politics; malign foreign influence and its effects on democracies; changes in international and regional institutions over the past century; and challenges to the nation-state as the dominant unit in the international system. My research in international relations and international political economy has also included international monetary and financial cooperation, political networks, Asia-Pacific regionalism, the changing role of emerging economies in world politics and global governance, and sources of cosmopolitanism and parochialism in contemporary politics.
Before joining the School of International Service, Kahler was Rohr Professor of Pacific international relations and Distinguished Professor in the School of Global Policy and Strategy and the political science department, University of California, San Diego. I am a senior advisor and past member of the editorial board of International Organization.
I have been a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
I was honored to receive the distinguished scholar award from the international political economy section of the International Studies Association in 2023. My research has been enriched by visiting appointments and fellowships at Fudan University; the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto; University of Melbourne; the Global Governance Unit, Berlin Social Science Center, and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
I have benefited from an education in the Baltimore County public schools, at Harvard University (A.B. and Ph.D.) and at Nuffield College, University of Oxford (M.Phil.).