Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Roland Bleiker is Reader in International Relations at the Univer­ sity of Queensland. From 1986 to 1988 he was Chief of Office of the Swiss Delegation to the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission in Panmunjom. His most recent book is Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation (University of Minnesota Press, 2005). Besides his work on Korea, Bleiker also conducts research on polit­ ical theory and international relations. He is currently on sabbati­ cal at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and at Cambridge University, finishing a book on Aesthetics and World Politics (forth­ coming from Palgrave). (E-mail: bleiker@uq.edu.au) Jom Dosch is Professor of Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has previously been a Fulbright Scholar at the AsiaPacific Research Center, Stanford University (1999-2000) and a vis­ iting professor/scholar in Italy, Germany, and the United States. Dosch has published around fifty books and articles on interna­ tional relations and Southeast Asian politics, including The Chang­ ing Dynamics of Southeast Asian Politics (Lynne Rienner, 2006) and The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific (Routledge, 2004, with M. Connors and R. Davison). (E-mail: J.Dosch@leeds.ac.uk) Melvin Gurtov is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Portland State University in Oregon, USA, and Editorin -Chief of Asian Perspective. His most recent books are Superpower on Crusade: The Bush Doctrine in US Foreign Policy (Rienner, 2006) and the fifth edition of Global Politics in the Human Interest (Rienner, forthcoming in 2007). (E-mail: mgurtov@aol.com) David Hundt is Lecturer in International Relations at Deakin Uni­ versity in Melbourne. He previously was a Research Officer at the University of Queensland. His main interests are the political economy, economic development, and international relations of the Asia-Pacific, in particular the history and politics of the Korean peninsula. He received his doctorate in 2005 from the University of Queensland; the thesis reexamined the relations between the state and capital during the industrialization of South Korea. (E-mail: d.hundt@uq.edu.au) Wenran Jiang is associate professor of political science and acting director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta. He has twice been named a Japan Foundation Fellow, and has also been president of the Canadian Consortium on Asia Pacific Security and Senior Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. His recent publications on Chinese diplomacy and energy policy have appeared in International Journal, Energy Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere (edited by Sidney Weintraub; Center for Security and International Studies, 2007), and Connections and Identities in East Asia and Beyond, co-edited with Satoshi Ikeda, forthcoming. (Email : wenran.jiang@ualberta.ca) Mindy L. Kotler is founder and director of the Asia Policy Point (formerly, the Japan Information Access Project), a membership nonprofit research center in Washington, D.C. that studies the U.S. policy relationship with Japan and Northeast Asia. Ms. Kotler received her Master of Arts degree in International Relations from Yale University. (E-mail: mkotler@jiaponline.org) Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Professor of Japanese History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. Her research interests include memory and history in East Asia, and the issues of minorities, cross-border migration, and human rights, with particular reference to Japan and Korea. Her most recent books are The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History (Verso, 2005) and Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). (E-mail: tessa.morris-suzuki@ anu.edu.au) Naotaka Sugawara was a senior analyst in economics at Asia Poli­ cy Point in Washington, D.C. He holds a Master of Arts in Interna­ tional Development from the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Meiji University in Japan. (E-mail: akatonas@dg8.so-net.ne.jp) Takahiko Tennichi began his career at Yomiuri in 1981 as a staff writer and later served as deputy editor of the Cultural News Department. He became an Editorial Writer in 2003. He served as a part-time lecturer at Gakushuin University's Faculty of Law in Tokyo, and he was...