China in Africa
China in Africa examines the complexity of China's engagement with the African continent and covers critical issues such as Chinese soft and hard power, energy and arms relations and China's bilateral relations with African countries.
China's Quasi-Superpower Diplomacy: Prospects and Pitfalls
Senior Fellow Willy Lam's occasional paper examines the ways in which Beijing is waging quasi-superpower diplomacy to bolster China's pre-eminence in the new world order.
The Rising Dragon: SCO Peace Mission 2007
This occasional report examines historic counterterrorist exercises organized by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which was held in China and Russia from August 9-17, 2007.
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Chris Alden, Ph.D., is the Director of the China in Africa Project at SAIIA and author of the book, China in Africa (Zed 2007). |
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Kenneth Allen is a Senior Analyst at The CNA Corporation. During his 21-year career in the U.S. Air Force, he was an Assistant Air Force Attaché in China. |
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Alex An is a retired Colonel in the ROC (Taiwan) Army |
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David An is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at George Washington University, a former Fulbright scholar and China analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses. |
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Martin Andrew retired from the Australian Defense Force after 28 years of service and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Bond University. His book, ‘How the PLA Fights: Weapons and Tactics of the People’s Liberation Army’ was recently published by the U.S Army. He is the editor of the ‘GI Zhou Newsletter’, which is used by customers in the United States Department of Defense and elsewhere. |
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Tariq Mahmud Ashraf is a retired Air Commodore from the Pakistan Air Force. A freelance analyst on South Asian defense and nuclearization issues, he has authored one book and published over 70 papers and articles in journals of repute. |
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Chietigj Bajpaee is a Research Associate for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. He has been a Researcher for the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), for Civic Exchange, a Hong Kong-based public-policy think-tank, and a Risk Analyst for a New York-based risk management company. |
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Migeddorj Batchimeg is a senior researcher at the Institute for Strategic Studies of Mongolia. |
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Richard A. Bitzinger is a Senior Fellow with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University where he is attached to the Military Transformation Program. Formerly with the RAND Corp. and the Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies, he has been writing on Asian military defense issues for nearly 20 years. |
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Prior to working as Moscow-based independent researcher and journalist, Dr. Sergei Blagov was a newswire reporter. He spent nearly seven years reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam, between 1983 and 1997. |
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Dr. Stephen Blank is a professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA. The views expressed here do not represent those of the U.S. Army, Defense Department, or the U.S. Government. |
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Dennis J. Blasko, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired), is a former U.S. army attaché to Beijing and Hong Kong and author of The Chinese Army Today (Routledge, 2006). |
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Dan Blumenthal is a resident fellow in Asian studies at the American Enterprise Institute and vice chairman of the U.S.-China Security and Economic Review Commission. Previously, he was senior director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. |
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Pieter Bottelier is a senior adjunct professor at The Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Prior to this, he served at the World Bank from 1970-1998 and was the Chief of the World Bank’s Resident Mission in Beijing from 1993-1997. |
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Jean-Pierre Cabestan is a Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research. |
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Dr. John Calabrese teaches U.S. Foreign Policy at American University and serves as book review editor of The Middle East Journal. He is the author of China's Changing Relations with the Middle East (1990) and numerous articles, including "Dragon by the Tail: China's Energy Quandary." |
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Dr. Alicia Campi has a Ph.D. in Mongolian Studies, was involved in the preliminary negotiations to establish bilateral relations in the 1980s, and served as a diplomat in Ulaanbaatar. She has a Mongolian consultancy company (U.S.-Mongolia Advisory Group), and writes and speaks extensively on Mongolian issues. |
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Leah (Kimmerly) Caprice is a Research Analyst at Defense Group Inc.’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis. |
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Alfred L. Chan is an associate professor of political science at Huron University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada. |
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Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China (Random House, 2001). |
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Parris H. Chang, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University and President of Taiwan Institute for Political Economic and Strategic Studies. His former positions include Deputy Secretary-general of Taiwan’s National Security Council and chairman of National Defense Committee and Foreign Relation Committee of Legislative Yuan (Taiwan’s Parliament). |
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Dr. Michael S. Chase is an Associate Professor in the Strategy and Policy Department at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He is the author of Taiwan’s Security Policy: External Threats and Domestic Politics (Lynne Rienner, 2008). The views presented in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Naval War College, Department of the Navy, or Department of Defense. |
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Zhenzhen Chen is a researcher with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Study. |
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York W. Chen, Ph.D., received his graduate degree from Lancaster University, United Kingdom. He was one of the Senior Advisors of Taiwan’s National Security Council from 2006-2008. He now teaches at Tamkang University, Taiwan. |
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Yinghong Cheng, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of history at Delaware State University. Cheng has studied at the Chinese Academy of Social Science and received an M.A. in 1988, and a Ph.D. from Northeastern University in 2001. |
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Tai Ming Cheung is a research fellow at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California, San Diego. |
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Yee Wah Chin is Senior Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC. Ms. Chin served on the ABA task forces that drafted the 2003 and 2005 ABA Comments on the proposed Anti-Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China. She is a member of the OECD Advisory Group on China Investment Policies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce China Industrial Policy Steering Committee. |
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Mr. Frank Ching is a Hong Kong based journalist and commentator. |
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Chu Shulong, Ph.D., is currently a professor in political science and international relations at the School of Public Policy and Management, and deputy director, Institute of Strategic Studies of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He was a professor of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Party School, and a senior fellow at China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) from 1994 till recently. He is also a council member of Chinese Association for American Studies, CSCAP (Council on Security Cooperation in Asia-Pacific) China National Committee, and Association of Sino-US Relations Studies, member of Chinese Society for Pacific Studies and Chinese Association for Taiwanese Studies. |
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Dr. Bernard D. Cole is Professor of International History at the National War College in Washington, D.C., where he concentrates on Pacific strategy, Sino-American relations, and the Chinese military. He is spending the 2004-2005 academic year as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University. |
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Merritt T. (‘Terry’) Cooke, Ph.D., is the principal of www.terrycooke.com, a professional speaking and corporate seminar/scenario enterprise. He is also Founder and Chairman of GC3 Strategy, an international market development consultancy targeting ‘green energy/technology’ opportunities in Greater China. Terry’s full bio is available at www.terrycooke.com/bio.aspx and publications at www.terrycooke.com/weblinks.aspx. Terry has served as Director for Asian Corporate Partnership at the World Economic Forum (‘Davos’) and is a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Commercial Service. |
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Johanna Cox is a Research Associate at the Defense Group Inc.’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis. |
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Dr. John C. K. Daly is a Eurasian foreign affairs and defense policy expert for The Jamestown Foundation based in Washington, D.C. |
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Elizaabeth Van Wie Davis is a Professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) with a focus on Chinese domestic, foreign, and defense policies. She has books on Islam, Oil & Geopolitics: Central Asia Since September 11 (2007), Chinese Perspectives on Sino-American Relations (2000) and China and the Law of the Sea Convention (1995) and her articles appear in journals around the world. The views in this article are personal opinions of the author, and are not official positions of the U.S. Government, U.S. Pacific Command or APCSS. |
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Mauro De Lorenzo is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He conducted research in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and DR Congo for a number of years between 1998 and 2004, and revisited Kigali and Bujumbura in February 2007. He recently attended the second Africa-China-U.S. Trilateral Dialogue in Beijing, a joint effort of the Brenthurst Foundation, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. |
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Han Dongfang is the founder and director of China Labour Bulletin, a non-governmental organization based in Hong Kong that seeks to promote workers rights in mainland China |
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Benjamin Dooley is an intern at CSIS. |
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Joshua Eisenman is the co-editor of “China and the Developing World: Beijing’s Strategy for the 21st Century,” and author of the book’s chapter on China's strategy towards Africa (M.E. Sharpe 2006). |
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Evan Ellis, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor at the University of Miami, and author of the book 'China and Latin America: The Whats and Wherefores.' |
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Andrew S. Erickson is an Assistant Professor in the Strategic Research Department at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He is coeditor of the Naval Institute Press books China Goes to Sea (July 2009), China’s Energy Strategy (2008), and China’s Future Nuclear Submarine Force (2007). The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Navy or Department of Defense. |
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Daniel P. Erikson is Senior Associate for U.S. policy at the Inter-American Dialogue, where he manages a program on China-Latin American relations. |
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Li Fan is a Research Fellow at the World and China Institute, a private think tank, in Beijing. |
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Zhu Feng is currently the visiting fellow at the Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. Professor Zhu is the director of the International Security Program at the School of International Relations at Peking University. |
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Joseph Ferguson is a consultant for LMI in McLean, VA and an affiliate professor of international relations at the University of Washington. |
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Richard D. Fisher, Jr. was a senior fellow with the Jamestown Foundation and was the managing editor of China Brief. |
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Duncan Freeman is a writer and consultant based in Brussels specializing in EU-China relations. |
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John Garver is Professor of International Relations at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology. |
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Dr. Bates Gill holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A specialist in East Asian foreign policy and politics, Dr. Gill focuses primarily on China's domestic transformation, China's regional diplomacy, and US-China relations. |
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Bonnie S. Glaser is a Senior Fellow in the Freeman Chair for China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). |
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Dr. Paul H.B. Godwin retired as professor of international affairs at the National War College in the summer of 1998, where his teaching and research concentrated on Chinese defense and security policy. Professor Godwin is currently a consultant and serves as a non-resident scholar in the Atlantic Council's Asia-Pacific Program. His most recent publication is "China's Defense Establishment: The Hard Lessons of Incomplete Modernization" in Laurie Burkitt, Andrew Scobell and Larry Wortzel (eds.). |
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Lyle J. Goldstein, Ph.D., is Director of the China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI) of the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI. |
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Stephen Green is Head of the Asia Program at Chatham House, London. |
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Christopher Griffin is a research fellow in Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He can be reached at cgriffin@aei.org. |
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Pan Guang is the Director and Professor of Shanghai Center for International Studies and Institute of Eurasian Studies at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Director of SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) Studies Center in Shanghai, Dean of Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS) and Vice Chairman of Chinese Society of Middle East Studies. |
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Kristen Gunness is a China advisor for the Department of the Navy. She has extensive experience studying, living, and working in China, and has written extensively on Chinese security, foreign, and economic affairs |
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Eric Hagt is the Director of the China Program at the Center for Defense Information. |
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Keith Hand is a Senior Fellow at the Yale Law School’s China Law Center. |
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Brian Harding is a research associate in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Previously, he was a Fulbright fellow in Indonesia in 2006-2007 |
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Ambassador Paul Hare is the executive director of the U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Zambia from 1985 to 1988 and as the U.S. Special Representative for the Angolan Peace Process from 1993-1998. From 1988-1989, he also served as the principal deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of the Near East and South Asian Affairs of the Department of State. |
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William R. Hawkins is Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the U.S. Business and Industry Council. |
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Professor Jeffery Herbst is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Miami University, in Ohio, and a co-author of "The Future of Africa: A New Order in Sight?" |
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James Holmes is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College and co-author of Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century: The Turn to Mahan. The views expressed here are his own. |
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Loro Horta works for the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor (UNMIT). He is a graduate of Peoples Liberation Army National Defense University (PLANDU). His writings on the Chinese military and other China related topics have been published by Military Review, Australian Army Journal, Strategic Analysis the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington D.C., and Yale Magazine. His articles have appeared on Asia’s major newspapers such as the Straits Times, The Bangkok Post, The China Post, Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, Jakarta Post and Asia Times. The views expressed here are strictly his own. |
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Mr. Hsiao is the Editor of China Brief at The Jamestown Foundation. |
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Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Ph.D., is the Director and Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Dr. Hsiao is currently Professor of sociology at National Taiwan University and President of the Taiwan Association of Southeast Asian Studies. Dr. Hsiao has served as a national policy advisor to the presidents of Taiwan between 1996 and 2006. His areas of specialization include civil society and new democracies, middle classes in the Asia-Pacific, sustainable development and NGO studies. |
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Dr. Teh-wei Hu is Professor Emeritus of Health Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in China and received his PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin. He has been advising the Chinese Ministry of Health, the World Bank and the World Health Organization on health care financing and tobacco control during the past twenty years and has more than 200 publications in the field. |
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Jing Huang, Ph.D., is visiting professor at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore |
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Chin-Hao Huang is a Researcher with the Freeman Chair. |
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Masako Ikegami is Professor and Director of the Center for Pacific Asia Studies (CPAS) at Stockholm University. She holds Doctor of Sociology from University of Tokyo, and a Ph.D. in peace & conflict research from Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research interests include Asian security & confidence building, arms control & disarmament and non-proliferation issues. |
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Alisher Ilkhamov is a Research Fellow at the University of London, SOAS. |
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Rian Jensen was formerly the Associate Editor of China Brief at The Jamestown Foundation. |
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You Ji, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in School of Social Science & International Studies at the University of New South Wales. |
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Wenran Jiang, Ph.D., is the Mactaggart Research Chair of the China Institute at the University of Alberta and a Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. |
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Jiang Shixue is the Vice President of the Chinese Association of Latin American Studies and Professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. |
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Dr. Jin Xide is a professor and the deputy director of the Institute of Japanese Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), where he has been working since 1994. He received his MA in History of Japanese Modern Philosophy from Yan Bian University, and a PhD in Japanese Diplomacy from the University of Tokyo |
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Jing Jing is an M.A. candidate at the Georgetown University’s Department of Government and a intern at the Woodrow Wilson Center. |
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Roy D. Kamphausen is the Director of the Washington, DC office, and Director of National Security Affairs at The National Bureau of Asian Research. He is a retired U.S. Army China Foreign Area Officer and previously served as a military attache in Beijing, intelligence analyst, as strategic plans officer on the Joint Staff, and as the China Country Director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. |
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Dr. Kapur is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of Pokhran and Beyond, second edition in paper, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2003, and Regional Security Structures in Asia, Routledge, London, 2003 among other works on the subcontinent. |
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Jesse Karotkin is a Senior China Analyst with the Department of the Navy. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Navy or Department of Defense. |
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Kazuyo Kato is an associate with Armitage International. |
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Hiro Katsumata, Ph.D., is Research Associate of the Centre for Governance and International Affairs at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. |
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Thomas E. Kellogg is Program Officer and Advisor to the President at the Open Society Institute. |
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Professor David Kelly is a Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. |
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Jason Kelly is a research assistant at the RAND Corporation. |
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Nazery Khalid is a Research Fellow at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia |
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Dr. Mikyoung Kim is a Faculty Researcher at Hiroshima Peace Institute/Hiroshima City University in Japan. |
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Dr. Eugene Kogan is currently a guest researcher at the International Institute for Liberal Policy in Vienna. He is a defense industry analyst with expertise on Russia, Eastern Europe, Israel and China. |
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Jiri Kominek is a Prague-based independent journalist and consultant who regularly contributes to the Jane's Information Group and Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). He is a specialist in defense, security, and economic issues in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics. |
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Carlo Kopp, Ph.D., is head of capability analysis with the Air Power Australia think tank, a research fellow in regional military strategy at the Monash Asia Institute, and an active researcher in computer networking, satellite navigation and radar theory at the Monash Faculty of IT in Melbourne, Australia. He is a leading authority on Russian and Chinese weapons technology. |
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I-Chung Lai, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Mackay Medicine College of Nursing and Management. |
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Dr. Willy Wo-Lap Lam is a Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation. He has worked in senior editorial positions in international media including Asiaweek newsmagazine, South China Morning Post, and the Asia-Pacific Headquarters of CNN. He is the author of five books on China, including the recently published "Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges." Lam is an Adjunct Professor of China studies at Akita International University, Japan, and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
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Dr. Namju Lee is a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and an associate professor in the department of Chinese studies at Sungkonghoe University in South Korea. |
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John Lee is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) and Managing Director of Sydney-based research company L21. Dr. Lee is the author of "Will China Fail?" (CIS, 2007). |
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Itamar Y. Lee is a Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India. He is the author of “Dragon’s Digital Eyes beyond the Himalayas: Online Chinese Nationalism toward Pakistan and India,” in Shaun Breslin and Simon Shen, eds., Online Chinese Nationalism and China’s Bilateral Relations (Lexington Books, forthcoming). |
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Jordan Lee is a research assistant at The Brookings Institution. |
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Dr. Philip I. Levy is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. From 2003 to 2005, he was Senior Economist for Trade for the President's Council of Economic Advisers. From 2005 to 2006, he handled international economic issues as a member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff. |
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Dr. Joanna Lewis is the Senior International Fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. From 2000-2005, Dr. Lewis worked with the China Energy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and from 2003-2004 she was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy at Tsinghua University in Beijing. |
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Li Mingjiang, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. |
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Dr. Nan Li is a visiting senior fellow at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore. He is the editor of Chinese Civil-Military Relations (Routledge, 2006). |
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Dr. Cheng Li is the William R. Kenan Professor of Government at Hamilton College in New York and a Visiting Fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center of the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Dr. Li is currently conducting research on the 5th generation of leaders, who are expected to emerge during the 17th Party Congress in the fall of 2007. |
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Li Jianmin is a professor at the Institute of Population and Development in the School of Economics at Nankai University |
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Robyn Lim is Professor of International Relations at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan, and the author of "The Geopolitics of East Asia". |
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Mr. Joseph E. Lin is the former Associate Editor of China Brief at The Jamestown Foundation. He is the co-founder of the Johns Hopkins University East Asian Forum & Review and currently serves as a member of its Board of Advisors. |
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Dr. Chong-Pin Lin is the President of the Foundation on International and Cross-Strait Studies and a professor in the Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies at Tamkang University. He formerly served as Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of National Defense and was the first Vice Chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council. He is the author of China’s Nuclear Weapons Strategy (Lexington Books, 1988), and Yizhi Qusheng [Win With Wisdom] (Taipei: Global Defense Magazine Publisher, 2005). |
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Cheng-yi Lin, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS), and Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, both at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. |
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Christina Y. Lin, Ph.D. is research consultant for IHS Jane’s and former director for China affairs in policy planning at the U.S. Department of Defense. Her 2008 paper linking Middle East and East Asia nuclear issues, “The King from the East” published by the Korea Economic Institute, was recently referenced in The Wall Street Journal. |
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Toby Lincoln is a researcher in corporate social responsibility and reputations management. He received a Masters in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London |
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Dr. Xingzhu Liu (M.D., Ph.D., MPH) is a principal scientist with Abt Associates Inc. and has more than 20 years of experience in health economics and public health. Prior to joining Abt Associates, Dr. Liu was a Global Leadership Fellow in Health with the World Health Organization, and a professor and director of the Institute of Social Medicine and Health Policy at Shandong University, China. |
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Fu-Kuo Liu, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University. He was 2006-2007 visiting fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, the Brookings. His research works focuses on regional security, the United States policy in Asia and regionalism in Asia. |
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Christine Loh is the CEO of Civic Exchange, an independent non-profit think tank, which has worked with numerous surveying experts to track public opinion throughout the campaign period. |
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Ahmad Lutfi is a political and terrorism analyst, and a Middle East specialist based in Ottawa, Canada. His background and life in China, Europe, the Middle East and North America provide the basis for his research interests which span state-civil society relations; democratization; human rights; jihad; domestic politics, regional dynamics and international relations of the Middle East; Muslim communities, political Islam; terrorism; and Xinjiang. Ahmad was educated in the UK and China and is interviewed regularly by the international media for his insight into the Middle East and Muslim affairs. Among his publications, his monograph "Blowback: China and the Afghan Arabs" addresses the links between China's involvement in the Afghanistan Jihad and its ongoing struggle to pacify its restive Muslim communities in Xinjiang. |
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Daniel C. Lynch is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Taiwan's Self-Conscious Nation-Building Project and the forthcoming book, The International Dimension of Asian Democratization: "Recentering" Thailand, China, and Taiwan. |
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Mohan Malik, Ph.D., is a Professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu. He is the author of China and India as Global Powers: Back to the Future? (forthcoming), Dragon on Terrorism, The Gulf War: Australia’s Role and Asian-Pacific Responses, co-editor of Religious Radicalism and Security in South Asia, and editor of Australia’s Security in the 21st Century, The Future Battlefield, and Asian Defence Policies.The views expressed here do not reflect the official policy or position of the Center or the U.S. Department of Defense. |
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James Manicom, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow in the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto and Visiting Scholar in the School of Political and International Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. |
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Yufeng Mao, Ph.D., is a historian of modern China. She researches the history of Muslims in China and Sino-Middle Eastern connections. |
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Peter Mattis is a Program Associate at The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) in Seattle. The views expressed here are his own, and do not represent NBR. |
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Andrew McGregor is Director of Aberfoyle International Security, a Toronto-based agency specializing in security issues related to the Islamic world. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto’s Dept. of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations in 2000 and is a former Research Associate of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. In October 2007 he took over as managing editor of the Jamestown Foundation’s Global Terrorism Analysis publications. He is the author of an archaeological history of Darfur published by Cambridge University in 2001 and publishes frequently on international security issues. His latest book is A Military History of Modern Egypt, published by Praeger Security International in 2006. Dr. McGregor provides commentary on military and security issues for newspapers (including the New York Times and Financial Times), as well as making frequent appearances on radio (BBC, CBC Radio, VOA, Radio Canada International) and television (CBC Newsworld, CTV Newsnet, and others). |
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Rear Admiral Eric A. McVadon retired after serving at the U.S. embassy in Beijing and has been a consultant on East Asian security affairs for various DoD and intelligence organizations for the past 15 years. He is also the director of Asia-Pacific Studies for the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis. His writings on China’s relations with the Koreas include “China’s Military Strategy for the Korean Peninsula” in China’s Military Faces the Future, China’s Foreign Military Relations, and “China’s Goals and Strategies for the Korean Peninsula” in Planning for a Peaceful Korea. |
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Dr. Qingyue Meng (MD, PhD) is a professor of Health Economics at the Center for Health Management and Policy, Shandong University, China. He is also a member of the Ministry of Health’s “Experts Committee on Policy and Management” as well as “Advisory Committee on Tuberculosis Control.” |
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Wangchuk Meston, a researcher with International Campaign for Tibet, is a human rights advocate and has been involved in field research relating to refugees, migration and population transfer in Tibet, including the World Bank project in Qinghai Province. |
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Greg Mills, Ph.D., heads the Brenthurst Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa, and during 2008 is on secondment to Rwanda as the ‘Strategic Adviser to the President.' |
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Jonathan Mirsky, was the China correspondent of The Observer [London] and East Asia Editor of The Times [London]. In 1989 he was named the British editors' International Journalist of the Year for his reporting from Tiananmen. He lives in London. |
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Ronald N. Montaperto recently retired as Dean of Academics at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. He now lives and works as an independent consultant in Washington, D.C. |
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Lyle Morris is a Research Intern in the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS and is currently pursuing a Masters degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). |
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James P. Muldoon, Jr. is Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University, Newark. |
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Brigadier Vijai K Nair VSM (retired) is a defense analyst specializing in nuclear strategy formulation and author of two books, including "Nuclear India." |
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Professor M. D. Nalapat is director of the School of Geopolitics of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India. |
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Nathan Nankivell is Senior Researcher at the Office of the Special Advisor Policy at Maritime Forces Pacific Headquarters. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy of Canada’s Department of National Defense. |
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Peter Navarro is a business professor at the University of California-Irvine and author of The Coming China Wars (Financial Times). www.peternavarro.com |
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is a Russian researcher based in the United States who specializes in Russian and Chinese developments in defense and military reform as well as the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). |
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Tarique Niazi teaches Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. He specializes in Resource-based Conflicts. He may be reached via email: niazit@uwec.edu |
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Matthew Oresman is the Director of the China-Eurasia Forum and has published widely on China-Central Asia relations. More detailed recommendations of how the United States can cooperate with China in Central Asia will be published in the May edition of the CEF Monthly, available online at www.chinaeurasia.org. |
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Dr. Keun-Wook Paik is a London-based specialist on Sino-Russian oil and gas relations and is currently an associate fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). He is the author of “Gas and Oil in Northeast Asia” and co-author of “China Natural Gas Report. He is currently working on book project titled “Sino-Russian Oil and Gas Cooperation.” |
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Jagannath P. Panda is a researcher from the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India, where he studies Chinese Military affairs and Sino-Indian Relations. |
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Yuan Peng is Deputy Director at the Institute of American Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations and former Visiting Fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS) at the Brookings Institution. |
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Sebastien Peyrouse is a Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and an Associate Scholar at the Institute for International and Strategic Research (Paris, France). He is the author or editor of five books on Central Asia and is currently working on Central Asia-China relations. |
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Kevin Pollpeter is China Program Manager at Defense Group Inc.’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis. |
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Samir Ranjan Pradhan, Ph.D., is a Senior Researcher in the GCC Economics and Gulf-Asia Program at the Gulf Research Center, Dubai. He has authored several publications on Gulf-Asia relations and important among them is “Chindia and GCC: Emerging Interdependence and Implications for Regional Integration,” Gulf-Asia Research Bulletin, May 2008, Gulf Research Center. |
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Mr. Preiss is chief investment strategist for CFC Securities in Hong Kong, and a guest lecturer at the Graduate School of the People's Bank of China, the Chinese central bank. |
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Colonel Susan M. Puska (retired) is a former U.S. Army Attache. She currently works for Defense Group, Inc., in Washington, D.C. |
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Dr. William Ratliff is a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a research fellow at the Independent Institute. |
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Shelley Rigger is the Brown Associate Professor of Political Science at Davidson College. She is the author of two books on Taiwan politics, "Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy" and "From Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party." |
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Ed Ross is the President and CEO of EWRoss International LLC, a company that provides global consulting services to clients in the international defense marketplace. He is the former Principal Director, Security Cooperation Operations, Defense Security Cooperation Agency; Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Affairs; and Senior Director for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. He has played a leading role in U.S.-Taiwan defense cooperation for over 25 years. He writes a weekly internet column at www.ewross.com. |
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Morris Rossabi is the author of Khubilai Khan and numerous other books on China and Mongolia. His latest book, Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists (University of California Press, 2005) focuses on developments in Mongolia since the collapse of communism in 1990. |
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Igor Rotar is Central Asia correspondent for Forum 18 News Service |
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Dr. Denny Roy is an Asian security analyst based in Honolulu. |
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Vijay Sakhuja, Ph.D., is Director (Research) at the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi. |
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Ambassador Peter Yoshiyasu Sato served as the Japanese Ambassador to Beijing from 1995 to 1998. He is currently the vice president of Japan-China Friendship Association and serves as an advisor to the Tokyo Electric Power Company and Shiseido Co. |
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Dr. Phillip C. Saunders is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies. He previously served as the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program, Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies |
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Clive Schofield, Ph.D., is QEII Research Fellow and Associate Professor at the Australian Centre for Ocean Resource and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, Australia, where he is Director of Research. |
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Dr. Andrew Scobell is Associate Professor of International Affairs at the George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. He was previously Associate Professor in the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College both located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He is the author of China’s Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and other publications. The views expressed here are the author’s own. They do not reflect the policies or positions of the U.S. Government, Department of Defense, or U.S. Army. |
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Kevin C. Scott is the Center Administrator of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. |
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Shen Dingli is a professor and Director of Center for American Studies at Fudan University. He is also the Executive Dean of Fudan’s Institute of International Studies. He has a Ph.D. in physics and did arms control post-doc at Princeton University from 1989-1991. He was an Eisenhower Fellow (1997) and advise the UN Secretary General for strategic planning (2002). |
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Dr. Yitzhak Shichor is Professor of East Asian Studies and Political Science at the University of Haifa, and Senior Fellow, the Harry S Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. |
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Erich Shih is currently the Washington Bureau Chief of TVBS Network, a leading cable news channel in Taiwan. From 2003-2004, he was a Visiting Fellow with the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS) at the Brookings Institution. |
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Victor Shih is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. His areas of expertise are Chinese political economy, banking reforms, and privatization. |
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During his 37 years at the Department of State, David Shinn served as Desk Officer for Somalia, Djibouti, and assistant for Ethiopia, State Department coordinator for Somalia during the U.S. intervention, Director of East and Horn of African Affairs, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Sudan, and Ambassador to Ethiopia. He is now an adjunct professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. |
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Shin Shoji graduated from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He currently works as the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election Analyst for NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)’s Washington DC bureau. |
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Stephen Shue is Senior Researcher of Boodc, a knowledge-based advisory firm in China |
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Sharif Shuja is Research Associate in the Global Terrorism Research Unit at Monash University in Australia. |
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Bhartendu Kumar Singh, Ph.D., is in the Indian Defence Accounts Service (IDAS)and serving on deputation with the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS). The views expressed here are his own. |
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Thomas M. Skypek is a Washington-based defense analyst who specializes in military transformation, deterrence and U.S. defense policy. He has supported research and analysis efforts for the Departments of Defense, Energy and Central Intelligence Agency. He holds a Masters degree in Defense and Strategic Studies from Missouri State University. The views expressed herein are exclusively those of the authors and do not represent those of the U.S. Department of Defense, SAIC or any other organization. |
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Anthony L. Smith is an Associate Research Professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Hawaii. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, U.S. Pacific Command, the U.S. Department of Defense, or the U.S. government. |
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Dr. Anton Smitsendonk is currently commissioner for Thailand and Indonesia in the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and was previously Ambassador of the Netherlands to China and later to the OECD in Paris. From 1990-1998 he led the Académie Diplomatique Internationale de Paris, a working group of official and non-official political figures from several countries on the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. His primary research areas include: Chinese and European diplomacy, Chinese financial markets, trade and investment opportunities, and relations with the ICC. |
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Scott Snyder is author of the newly-published China’s Rise and the Two Koreas and Director of the Center for U.S.-Korea Policy at The Asia Foundation. The views expressed here are personal views. He can be reached at ssnyder@asiafound-dc.org. |
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Camilla T. N. Soerensen is a research fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is currently a visiting research fellow in the China Studies program at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. |
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Dan Southerland is the Vice President of Programming and Executive Editor of Radio Free Asia (RFA). Prior to joining RFA, he was The Washington Post's bureau chief in Beijing from 1985 to 1990. He received a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 1990 for his coverage of Tiananmen and an Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship in 1990-91. |
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K. Joseph Spears, the principal of the Horseshoe Bay Marine Group of West Vancouver, Canada has been researching arctic shipping for almost 30 years. He has degrees in Biology, economics and law from Dalhousie University and a Masters from the London School of Economics in Sea-Use Law, Economics and Policy Making. |
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Harvey Stockwin has been reporting and analysing Asian developments since 1955. Currently he broadcasts a weekly 15-minute talk "Reflections From Asia" for Radio Television Hong Kong, contributes to the Japan Times, and is the East Asia correspondent of The Times Of India. |
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Dr. Ian Storey is a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore. |
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Mr. Steven Y. Sun is currently the head China analyst for G7 Group, a Washington-based political and economic research and advisory firm. |
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Ian Taylor is an Associate Professor in the School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. |
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Dr Eric Teo Chu Cheow, a business consultant and strategist based in Singapore, is also Council Secretary of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA). |
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Drew Thompson is the Director of China Studies and Starr Senior Fellow at The Nixon Center in Washington, DC. He was formerly the National Director of the China-MSD HIV/AIDS Partnership in Beijing and the Assistant Director of the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). |
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Chris Thompson is the research and administrative manager at the Brenthurst Foundation. |
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Levi Tillemann is a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University SAIS and an associate at Cambridge Energy Research Associates. Levi is currently writing a dissertation on energy security in Northeast Asia. |
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John Tkacik is Research Fellow in China Policy in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation |
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John Tkacik is a retired Foreign Service Officer. |
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Dr. Sergei Troush is the Senior Fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is specializing in China's foreign and domestic politics, China's energy and security strategy, and Russian policy in Asia Pacific. |
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Michael M. Tsai, Ph.D., served in the government of Taiwan as the minister of national defense, deputy secretary-general of the National Security Council and deputy representative to the United States. Dr. Tsai is currently the chairman of the Institute for Taiwan Defense and Strategic Studies. |
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JianJun (Kevin) Tu (jjtu@mkja.ca) is a Vancouver-based senior energy and environmental consultant, and a research associate of the Canadian Industrial Energy End-Use Data and Analysis Centre. |
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Dr. Jennifer L. Turner has directed the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars since 1999. In addition to editing the yearly publication, the China Environment Series (www.wilsoncenter.org/cef), she has recently begun a new China Environmental Health project with Western Kentucky University, focusing on health challenges in karst water regions and coal emissions in Anhui Province. |
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Willem van Kemenade is a visiting senior fellow with The Netherlands Institute of International Relations, specializing in China’s global strategic relations. |
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Dan Verton is the Founder of Homeland Security Television, an award-winning journalist, and author of five books, including The Insider: A True Story and Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber-Terrorism (McGraw-Hill, 2003). He can be contacted at editor@danverton.com. |
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Mr. von Pfeil is chairman and CEO of Commercial Economics in Hong Kong. |
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Arthur Waldron is the Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Arthur Waldron, Ph.D., is Lauder Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania (1997 to present) and a Board Member of The Jamestown Foundation. He is author of or contributor to over twenty books in English and Chinese. |
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Wang Meiyan is an associate professor at the Institute of Population and Labor Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. |
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Vincent Wei-cheng Wang is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Richmond. He has published over sixty scholarly articles and book chapters on China, Taiwan, East Asian political economy and security. He is working on a project on the Indian perspectives on the rise of China. |
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Cynthia Watson, Ph.D., is Chairwoman and Professor in Security Studies at the National War College. The views expressed in this article are those of Cynthia Watson, not those of the National War College, Institute for National Strategic Studies or any U.S. Government agency. |
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Wang Wei-fang is the Counselor of Research at the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission in Taiwan. She is also Assistant Professor at Lung-hwa University. |
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Dr. Richard Weitz is a Senior Fellow and Director of Program Management at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. |
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David G. Wiencek is President of International Security Group, Inc., and co-editor of Asian Security Handbook: Terrorism and the New Security Environment (M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2005). |
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Dennis C. Wilder, a visiting fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution, served as China director and then senior director for East Asian affairs at the National Security Council from August 2004 to January 2009. |
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Jaushieh Joseph Wu is a research fellow at the Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. He previously served in the Taiwan government in 2002-2008 as Deputy Secretary-General to the President, Chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, and Taiwan’s official representative to the United States. |
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Chen Yali is the Editor-in-Chief of Washington Observer, an independent Chinese-language weekly magazine on American foreign policy and politics based in Washington DC. |
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Alan Yang, Ph.D., is the grantee of Fellowships for Doctoral Candidates in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2006-2007) at the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS) at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. His areas of specialization include international relations theory, Asia-Pacific regionalism and ASEAN study. |
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Christopher Yeaw is an Associate Professor in the Warfare Analysis and Research Department at the U.S. Naval War College. |
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Marat Yermukanov is a journalist working for the Russian-language private newspaper "Panorama Nedely" in Petropavlovsk, North Kazakhstan, and is also a regional correspondent for the Almaty-based national weekly "Panorama." |
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Toshi Yoshihara is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College and co-author of Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century: The Turn to Mahan. The views expressed here are his own. |
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Yu Maochun, Ph.D., is Professor of East Asia and Military History at the US Naval Academy. Views expressed are his own. |
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Jing-dong Yuan, Ph.D., is Director of Research for the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he is also an Associate Professor of International Policy Studies. He is the co-author of China and India: Cooperation or Conflict? (Lynne Rienner, 2003). |
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Chris Zambelis is an Associate with Helios Global, Inc., a risk analysis firm based in the Washington, DC area. The opinions expressed here are the author’s alone and do not necessarily reflect the position of Helios Global, Inc. |
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Arnold Zeitlin is the Managing Director at Editorial Research & Reporting Associates (ERRA) and Visiting Professor for the Department of Journalism at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. |
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Mr. Zhang Xuegang is an Associate Professor in China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR). He specializes in Southeast Asian security studies and China-U.S.-ASEAN trilateral relations. His recent publications and papers are Sea-lane Security and International Cooperation (co-edited, CICIR Publishing House, January 2005); Southeast Asia: Gateway to Stability (China Security, World Security Institute, Vol 3 No. 2, Spring 2007); Retrospect and Prospect for China-ASEAN Relations (Contemporary International Relations,CICIR,No.1,2007). |
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