Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Tsuneo Akaha is a professor of international policy studies and director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the Monterey Insti­ tute of International Studies, California. He is the author of Japan in Global Ocean Politics (University of Hawaii Press and the Law of the Sea Institute, 1985) and editor of The Future ofNorth Korea (Routledge, 2002) and Politics and Economics in Northeast Asia (Palgrave, 1999), among other books. His research and teaching areas include international relations and security issues in North­ east Asia and Japan's foreign relations. (E-mail: takaha@miis.edu) Roland Bleiker is Reader in Peace Studies and Political Theory at the University of Queensland, Australia. From 1986 to 1988 he was Chief of Office of the Swiss Delegation to the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission in Panmunjom. He is the author of Popu­ lar Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics (Cambridge Universi­ ty Press, 2000) and Rethinking Korean Security: Towards a Culture of Reconciliation (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2004). (E-mail: bleiker@uq.edu.au) Kevin J. Cooney is an assistant professor in the Department of His­ tory and Political Science, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee. He has previously taught at the university level in both China and Japan as well as at Arizona State University and Grand Canyon University. His latest book is Japan's Foreign Policy Maturation: A Questfor Normalcy (Routledge, 2002). (E-mail: KJC@asu.edu) Kiseon Chung is a senior researcher at the Survey Research Cen­ ter at Sungkyunkwan University. She has coauthored several works in Korean, including Foreign Workers in Korea: Their Work­ place and Life (Jisikmadang, 2003) and Economic Crisis and Korean Families (Senggak ui Namoo, 2001). Her current research focuses on national identity and international migrant women's work, family, and life in Korea. (E-mail: chungkiseon@hanmail.net) Heung-Kyu Kim is a researcher at the Korean Association for Contemporary Chinese Studies and has lectured at several promi­ nent universities in Korea. His publications on China's leadership and decision making have appeared in The Korean Journal ofInter­ national Studies and The Korean Journal of Political Science. (E-mail: imheungkyu@hanmail.net) Shinyoung Kim is a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford University Asia Pacific Research Center in California. His current projects include preparing his dissertation, "A Case Study of Development of Welfare Programs in South Korea, 1960-2000," for publication. Among his research interests are welfare reform in the era of glob­ alization, social stratification as a consequence of income security policy, and statistical modeling. (E-mail: kimsy@stanford.edu) Sung Ho Ko is a professor at the Institute of Political Education for Unification, Korea. His major interest is in urban sociology and North Korean society, and he is currently researching the relation­ ship between migration and HIV vulnerability. He has published articles on North Korea and inter-Korean cooperation, and is coau­ thor of On the Unification of the Korean Peninsula (Kunkook Univer­ sity Press, 1997) and Understanding Contemporary North Korea (Bubmunsa, 2004, in Korean). (E-mail: shko@unikorea.go.kr) Yoo-seok Oh is a professor at Sungkonghoe University. Her Kore­ an publications include studies on patriarchy in the DPRK and North Korean urban women in the regions of Chungjin, Shineujoo, and Haesan. She is currently focusing her research on North Kore­ ans' social consciousness and democracy and the social movement in South Korea. (E-mail: ysoh@mail.skhu.ac.kr) Setsuko Onoda is Associate Professor of Peace and International Relations at the Graduate School of the University of Shimane, Japan. She has published over twenty articles in Japanese, English, and German, with her major works concerning international treaties and agreements, as well as systems of war and peace. Her research interests include European-Asian relations, peace build­ ing, and conflict resolution. (E-mail: s-onoda@u-shimane.ac.jp) Alvin Y. So is a professor in the Division of Social Science of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Among his many publications are Hong Kong's Embattled Democracy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999); Asia's Environmental Movements, co-edited with Yok-Shiu Lee (M.E. Sharpe, 1999); and The Chinese Triangle of Mainland China-Taiwan-Hong Kong, co-edited with Nan...