See Seng Tan is an Associate Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He directs the school’s research program on multilateralism and regionalism as well as its executive education department. He previously served as the Deputy Head of Graduate Studies. His most recent publication is Bandung Revisited: The legacy of the 1955 Asian–African Conference for International Order (co-edited with Amitav Acharya, 2008, National University of Singapore Press). He recently completed a stint as Visiting Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia (IISS-Asia).
Koji Watanabe is Senior Fellow at the Japan Center for International Exchange. Joining the Foreign Ministry in 1956, Koji served as Japanese Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1988–89), Italy (1992–93) and Russia (1993–96), and Minister in Beijing (1981–84), Deputy Foreign Minister, Sherpa for the G7 Houston and London summits and Japanese co-chairman of the US–Japan Structural Impediments Initiative Talks. Now President of The Japan Forum, he was on the Board of Governors of the Asia–Europe Foundation (ASEF) and the National Public Safety Commission, and former Executive Advisor to the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren).
Richard A. Bitzinger is a Senior Fellow with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where his work focuses on military and defence issues relating to the Asia-Pacific region, including the challenges of defence transformation in the Asia-Pacific, regional military modernisation activities and local defence industries, arms production and weapons proliferation. Richard was previously an Associate Professor with the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS), Honolulu, Hawai’i, and also worked for the RAND Corporation, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Affairs and the US Government.
Fan Gaoyue, born in 1952, joined the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in 1970 and has worked in the PLA Academy of Military Science since 1989. Now a Senior Colonel and Research Fellow in the academy, Fan’s research and writing has focused on American affairs, including joint operations, military training, military strategy and military transformation.
Li Mingjiang is Assistant Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His main research interests include the rise of China in the context of East Asian regional relations and Sino–American relations, China’s diplomatic history and domestic sources of China’s international strategies. He teaches two courses: the History and International Politics of the Cold War and Chinese Security and Foreign Policy. He received his PhD in Political Science from Boston University. He has also studied at the Foreign Affairs University (Beijing) and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. He was a diplomatic correspondent for Xinhua News Agency from 1999 to 2001. Li has previously taught political science and Chinese politics at Boston University, Tufts University and Suffolk University. He has published and presented papers on China’s domestic politics and foreign policy.
Qingguo Jia is Professor and Associate Dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1988. He was a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution between 1985 and 1986. He has taught at the University of Vermont, Cornell University, the University of California at San Diego, the University of Sydney in Australia and Peking University. He has published extensively on US–China relations, relations between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, Chinese foreign policy and Chinese politics.
Zhang Tuosheng is a Senior Fellow, Chairman of the Academic Assessments Committee and Director of Research with the China Foundation for International Strategic Studies. Formerly an officer in the PLA, he was posted to the United Kingdom in the early 1990s as the Deputy Defence Attaché. His main research interests are Sino–American relations, Sino–Japanese relations, Asia-Pacific security and Chinese foreign policy.
Yu Bin is Professor of Political Science at Wittenberg University (Ohio, United States) and Senior Research Fellow at the Shanghai Association of American Studies. Yu earned his PhD from Stanford University (1991) and his MA from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1982). Yu’s professional activities have included attachments to Fudan University, Stanford University and the East West Center in Hawai’i. Yu is the author and co-author of several books and more than 60 scholarly articles. His current research focus includes China–Russia relations.
Ron Huisken is Senior Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University. He spent a number of years at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and the UN Centre for Disarmament Affairs before joining government (1981–2001), predominantly the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Trade and of Defence. He returned to academia in 2001 with research interests in US security policies, East Asian security processes and non-proliferation.
Robert Ayson directs The Australian National University’s Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence Program and is a Senior Fellow in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University. He has taught in New Zealand universities and served as an adviser to the New Zealand Parliamentary Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. The author of Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age (2004, Frank Cass, London and New York), his research interests include strategic concepts, Asia-Pacific stability and Australia–New Zealand defence issues.
Brendan Taylor is a lecturer in the Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence Program at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University. His teaching and research interests are focused on North-East Asian security, US foreign policy, economic statecraft and alliance politics. He graduated from the University of Waikato (New Zealand) and earned his MA and PhD from The Australian National University.
Zhao Gancheng has been with the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS) since 1985 and is now a Senior Fellow and Director of the South Asia Studies Program. He is the author of one book and the co-author of another and has written numerous articles on Indian politics and diplomacy, China–India relations and South Asian regional security developments. He has a new book under way that looks at the international politics of rising powers from a development perspective. Before his focus on South Asian studies, he worked in the SIIS on European studies as a research assistant, and also in research management and international exchanges as Research Fellow, Deputy Director and Director.