Ching-Chang CHEN is an associate professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU), Japan. He has been teaching various political science courses at APU, including field study programs in China, Korea, and Taiwan, since 2009. His current research focuses on critical security studies with reference to East Asia, non-Western international relations theory, and Sino-Japanese relations. He has appeared in media such as Al Jazeera and NHK and published articles in Issues & Studies, Journal of Chinese Political Science, International Relations in the Asia-Pacific, Asian Perspective, and Perceptions.
He graduated from National Taiwan University and obtained his PhD in International Politics from Aberystwyth University, Wales.
Nicholas HAMISEVICZ is the director of Research and Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI). He is responsible for political and security issues affecting the US–South Korea alliance, especially issues related to North Korea and inter-Korea relations. He is also tasked with leading KEI’s outreach efforts to connect the policy and academic communities. Prior to joining KEI, Mr. Hamisevicz was the research asso-ciate in the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation. He was also a co-author for Heritage’s publication of the Key Asian Indicators: A Book of Charts. Mr. Hamisevicz has an MA in International Communication from American University and an MA in International Studies from Korea University. He graduated with a BA in Communication Studies from West Virginia Wesleyan College.
Jihwan HWANG is an associate professor of international relations at the University of Seoul, Korea. Dr. Hwang also taught at Myongji University, and worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies of Seoul National University. He holds several advisory positions in the Korean government, including in the President’s Unification Preparation Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Unifica-tion. His research interests include international relations theory, security studies, North Korea, and Korean unification. His publications include
“The Paradox of South Korea’s Unification Diplomacy” (2014), “The Two Koreas after U.S. Unipolarity” (2013), and “Face-Saving, Reference Point, and North Korea’s Strategic Assessments”(2009). Dr. Hwang graduated from Seoul National University and received his PhD in Political Science from University of Colorado, Boulder.
KASEDA Yoshinori is a professor of politics at the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) in Beppu, Japan. He received his PhD in Politi-cal Science from Northern Illinois University in 2005. His research areas include international security in Northeast Asia and Japanese foreign policy.
He has published articles in such journals as International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, Pacific Focus, and Perceptions. He contributed a chapter to such books as North Korea’s Foreign Policy under Kim Jong Il (Ashgate, 2009), Peace Regime Building on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asian Security Cooperation (Ashgate, 2010), and North Korea and Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia (Ashgate, 2014).
Jina KIM is associate research fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses and holds a PhD in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Her research areas include US–North Korea relations, nuclear nonproliferation, and Northeast Asia security. She has taught seminars on humanitarian intervention at Yonsei University and nuclear proliferation and terrorism at Tufts University, and has worked for the Korean National Assembly, UNESCO, and BBC. Her recent publications include The North Korean Nuclear Weapons Crisis: The Nuclear Taboo Revisited, “UN Sanctions as an Instrument of Coercive Diplo-macy against North Korea,” and “An Analysis of Political Instability in the DPRK: Identity, Interest, and Leader-Elite Relations.”
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Shinichi OGAWA has been visiting professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University since April 2009. Before teaching at the university, he served the National Institute for Defense Studies, a research organ of Japan’s Ministry of Defense, as director of the Research Department. His studies focus on US-Soviet/Russian strategic issues, nuclear arms control, and East Asian security affairs. His most recent English article is “Conventional Deterrence and Japan’s Security,” an Internet publication of the Nautilus Institute. In the past he participated in several study projects, including a task force titled “Nuclear Order in the 21st Century,” organized by the Japan Institute of International Affairs. He received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Kanazawa, Japan, and his PhD in political science from Yale University.
Denny ROY (PhD in Political Science, University of Chicago, 1991) has been a senior fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu since 2007. He specializes in Northeast Asian international security issues. Previously he was a professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. He has also held research and teaching positions at the Naval Postgraduate School, the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at Australian National University, the National University of Singapore, and Brigham Young University. His latest book is Return of the Dragon: Rising China and Regional Security (Columbia University Press, 2013).
Yoichiro SATO is a professor of international relations in the department of Asia Pacific Studies at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. He previously taught at various institutions including the US Department of Defense’s Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) in Honolulu. His pub-lished books include Norms, Interests, and Power in Japanese Foreign Policy (coedited, Palgrave, 2008) and The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Regional Multilater-alism (coedited, Palgrave, 2011). His comments on Japanese foreign policy and Asian maritime security have been published and quoted in various regional media including Straits Times, Time Magazine, and Al Jazeera.
Utpal VYAS is an associate professor (International Relations and Politi-cal Economy) at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan. He obtained his PhD at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Soft Power in
Japan-China Relations: State, Sub-state and Non-state Relations (Routledge, 2013, paperback edition). His current main research interests are in China’s financial and economic globalization, and regional politics in East Asia and Europe.
ZHENG Jiyong is an associate professor at the Institute of International Studies, Fudan University, China. He was a visiting professor in the IFES, Kyungnam University, ROK (December 2009–December 2010). Also he studied Juche Chulhak (Kim Il Sung/Kim Jung Il’s Philosophy) at Kim Il Sung University, DPRK, as a visiting scholar (August–December 2014). His work on the domestic politics of the two Koreas and bilateral and multilateral relations related to the Korean peninsula has been published in the Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, among others. He is the author and co-author of over forty scholarly articles, and author or editor of five books, including ROK’s Political Party Systems (2008), and The ‘Conflict-Reconciliation’ Cycle on the Korean Peninsula: A Chinese Perspective (2012).