David P. Calleo

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David P. Calleo is an American intellectual and political economist, based at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he holds the title of University Professor.

Born in 1934 into an Italian immigrant family of humble origins (his father was a firefighter), David P. Calleo earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees at Yale University, where he also served as President of the Yale Political Union as an undergraduate. David P. Calleo is a noted American theorist on Europe and its future. Professor Calleo's book The German Problem Reconsidered made him famous among academics in 1978. In 1964 David Calleo's published a book called "Europe's future" that correctly predicted the possible directions Europe could take. In 2001 David Calleo published a new land-mark book, Rethinking Europe's Future, where he comes back to his 1964 theme. Professor Calleo has consistently argued that Europe will turn protectionist in the face of China and other countries in order to preserve the national welfare state. A theorist of the decline of American power, David P. Calleo sees Europe as an ally to the U.S. but also as a friendly balance. A critic America's "unipolar folly", Calleo fears the consequences of continued belief in a unipolar world, a dysfunctional view he believes America can correct with the help of its European allies. David P. Calleo has also been an early critic of America's "twin deficits" with such books as "The Imperious Economy" and "The Bankrupting of America". David Calleo has been the Director of the European Studies Department at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies since 1968. He is married to Avis T. Bohlen, former ambassador and arms control expert. She is the daughter of Charles E. Bohlen, who was Ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Calleo owns an estate on the Italian island of Elba, where he spends his summers researching and hosting academics and other notables.

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Rethinking Europe's Future (Princeton University Press, 2003). ISBN 0-691-11367-X
Europe's Furture: The Grand Alternatives (W. W. Norton & Company, 1967). ISBN 0-393-00406-6