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Gaye Christoffersen is an Associate Professor at Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California. She has taught at universities in China, Russia, and Turkish Cyprus as well as elsewhere in the United States. Her articles have appeared in China Eurasia Forum Quarterly, Asian Survey, China Quarterly, China Information, Pacific Affairs, Pacific Review, Asian Perspective, and Rossiya i ATR. (E-mail: gchristoffersen@soka.edu) Samuel S. Kim is Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University ’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute and editor-in-chief of the “Asia in World Politics” series of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers . He is the author or editor of twenty-three books on East Asian international relations and peace and world order studies, including China, the United Nations and World Order (Princeton University Press, 1979); The Quest for a Just World Order (Westview , 1984); China and the World (Westview, 4th ed., 1998); East Asia and Globalization (editor; Rowman & Littlefield, 2000); The International Relations of Northeast Asia (editor; Rowman & Littlefield , 2004); and The Two Koreas and the Great Powers (Cambridge University Press, 2006). (E-mail: ssk12@columbia.edu) Yasumasa Komori is Assistant Professor of International Relations at James Madison College, Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh and his master’s degree in International Affairs from American University. His research interests include Asian regionalism, Sino-Japanese relations, Japanese foreign policy toward Southeast Asia, and environmental cooperation in Northeast Asia. (E-mail: komoriy@msu.edu) Kun Young Park is Professor of International Relations at the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul. He was a CNAPS Korea fellow at the Brookings Institution (2004-2005) and served as CONTRIBUTORS Vice President of the Korean Association of International Studies (2007-2008). He received an academic excellence award from the KAIS in 2000 for his book The International Politics of the Korean Peninsula (Oruem, 1999). (E-mail: think@catholic.ac.kr) James N. Rosenau is University Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University. His scholarship focuses on the dynamics of change in world politics and the overlap of domestic and foreign affairs. He is the author of more than forty books and 200 articles. His recent books include People Count (Paradigm, 2007), The Study of World Politics (Routledge, 2006), and Distant Proximities: Dynamics Beyond Globalization (Princeton, 2003). (Email : jnr@gwu.edu) Robert Sutter has been a Visiting Professor of Asian Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service since 2001. His seventeen books include The United States in Asia (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009), Chinese Foreign Relations: Power and Policy since the Cold War (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), and numerous articles and reports on the United States and Asian affairs built on his experience in the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government from 1968 to 2001. (E-mail: sutterr@georgetown.edu) Hongying Wang is Associate Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on the interaction between domestic and international politics. She has published widely on Chinese politics and foreign policy, and is the author of Weak State, Strong Networks: The Institutional Dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment in China (Oxford, 2000). Her recent articles have appeared in International Studies Review, Journal of Contemporary China, Development, The China Quarterly, Journal of Asian Business, and Global Governance. (E-mail: hwang04@maxwell.syr.edu) ...

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