Korea's Future and the Great Powers

About the Editors and Contributors

About the Editors and Contributors Nicholas Eberstadt is Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Developmental Studies, and senior research associate at The National Bureau ofAsian Research. He has served as consultant to the Departments of State and Defense, the U.S. Information Agency, the Census Bureau, the Congressional Budget Office, and the World Bank. Dr. Eberstadt has published extensively in scholarly and foreign policy journals, and is the author of many books, including Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems (2000), The End ofNorth Korea (l999), The Tyranny ofNumbers: Mismeasurement andMisrule (1995), Korea Approaches Reunification (l995), The Population ofNorth Korea (with Judith Banister, 1992), and The Poverty ofCommunism (1988). Richard 1. Ellings is president and cofounder of The National Bureau of Asian Research. His areas of focus are national strategy, the international political economy of East Asia, and Chinese foreign relations. He is the editor ofSoutheastAsian Security in the New Millennium (with Sheldon Simon, 1996), and has authored Private Property and National Security (with others, 1991) and Embargoes and World Power (1985). Dr. Ellings has recently led 343 344 ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS projects and conducted studies on comparative national strategies, u.s. strategic options, and the history of u.s. strategy in the Asia Pacific. He has served as a consultant on Asia policy to the Departments of State and Defense and to the U.S. Information Agency, and as a legislative assistant in the U.S. Senate. Michael H. Armacost is president of The Brookings Institution. During his twenty-four years in government, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, the U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. He has also held senior policy responsibilities in the National Security Council and Department of Defense. From 1993 to 1995 he was distinguished senior fellow and visiting professor at Stanford University'S Asia/Pacific Research Center. Ambassador Armacost has published three books, including an analysis of Japan and the United States in the post-Cold War world. He is the recipient ofthe President's Distinguished Service Award, the Defense Department's Distinguished Civilian Service Award, and the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award. Gifford Combs is the founder and managing general partner of the global hedge fund, Chemin de Fer Limited. He served as partner in the Pacific Financial Research money management firm from 1985 to 1994. Mr. Combs was awarded the Stevenson Prize in Economics for his dissertation on food import policies and price stabilization in developing economies. Chuck Downs is a consultant in Asian affairs, and until his retirement in June 2000 was senior foreign and defense policy advisor for the House Policy Committee. From 1996 to 1998 he served as associate director ofAsian studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He has held numerous positions with the Department of Defense, including deputy director for regional affairs and congressional relations, East Asia and Pacific region; country director for Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, and the Pacific Islands; and assistant to the director for foreign military rights affairs. He has also held positions in the Department of the Interior, Senate staff, and Congressional Research Service. Mr. Downs is ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS 345 author ofOver the Line: North Korea sNegotiating Strategy (l999), coeditor with James Lilley ofCrisis in the Taiwan Strait (1997), and author ofnumerous articles on America's strategic role in Asia. Herbert J. Ellison is professor ofhistory and Russian studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and founding director of Eurasia Policy Studies at The National Bureau of Asian Research. Previously, Professor Ellison has served as the director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and as a consultant to the Department of State and the Foreign Affairs Committee of Congress. He has led numerous major projects on Russian relations with Japan, China, and the two Koreas, including as chiefconsultant for the PBS and BBC documentary series Messengersfrom Moscow. Relevant publications written by Professor Ellison include : The New Russia and Asia: 1991-1995 (1996), "Political Transformation of Communist States: Impact on the International Order in East Asia" (1995), and "Superpower Arms Control and the Future of Korean-American Security Ties" (1991). Robert L. Gallucci is dean ofGeorgetown University's School...