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CONTRIBUTORS Renato Cruz De Castro is Associate Professor in the Political Sci­ ence Department of De La Salle University, the Philippines, and a consultant of the Foreign Service Institute. A specialist in U.S. for­ eign policy and the international politics of East Asia, his current research interests include the Philippine-U.S. alliance, U.S. defense and foreign policy in East Asia, and post-cold war strategic studies. (E-mail: clarcd@mail.dlsu.edu.ph/renedecastro@hotmail.com) Patricia Goedde is an attorney licensed in Washington State and currently in the LLM/Ph.D. program in Asian and Comparative Law at the University of Washington Law School. She has prac­ ticed at the law firm of Kwangjang (Lee & Ko) in Seoul, Korea. (Email : pgoedde@hanmail.net) Samuel S. Kim is Professor of Political Science and a senior research scholar in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Univer­ sity. His latest publications include editorship of and contributor to three books: East Asia and Globalization (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000); Korea's Democratization (Cambridge University Press, 2003); and The International Relations ofNortheast Asia (Rowman & Little­ field, 2003, forthcoming). (E-mail: sskl2@columbia.edu) Jin-Young Kwak is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politi­ cal Science, Konkuk University, in Seoul, Korea. His main interests include party politics and political structure and process. His most recent articles on Korean politics have appeared in the Korean Polit­ ical Science Review (2001) and in Korean Party Studies Review (2002). (E-mail: jykwak@konkuk.ac.kr) Hun Joo Park is Assistant Professor of International Relations and Political Economy in the Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management. His most recent English articles on Korean statism and small businesses in Korea, Japan, and Tai­ wan have been published in The Pacific Review (2002) and Asian Survey (2001). He is currently completing a book entitled Diseased Dirigisme: The Political Sources ofFinancial Policy towards Small Busi­ ness (forthcoming). (E-mail: hjpark@kdischool.ac.kr) C. Kenneth Quinones is Korea Peninsula Program Director for the American Research Center for Asia and the Pacific based in Washington, D.C., and former North Korean desk officer at the U.S. State Department. He was a member of the U.S. team that brokered the 1994 Agreed Framework. His book, The North Korean Nuclear Threat—Off the Record Memories, published in Korean (JoongAng M&B, 2000) and Japanese, is being edited for publica­ tion in the United States. (E-mail: ckquinones@msn.com) Shalendra D. Sharma is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Democracy and Development in India (Lynne Rienner, 1999) and editor of Asia in the New Millennium: Geopolitics, Security and Foreign Policy (University of California Press, 2000) and The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Meltdown: Crisis, Reform and Recovery (Manchester Uni­ versity Press, 2003). (E-mail: sharmas@usfca.edu) Hyun-Seok Yu is Associate Professor in the Department of Interna­ tional Relations, Chung-Ang University. His research interests include Korean political economy, regionalism in East Asia, and the nexus between domestic and international political economy. He is author of Understanding International Relations: Issues in Global Village (Hanul Academy, 2001) and is currently working on a study of the domestic politics of free trade agreements in Korea. (E-mail: hsyuu@hotmail.com) Dingxin Zhao is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. His major interests are social movements and collec­ tive action, nationalism, and comparative historical sociology. His recent book, Power ofTiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Movement (University of Chicago Press, 2001), won the American Sociological Association's 2001 Asia and Asian America Outstand­ ing Book Award. His articles have appeared in the American Jour­ nal of Sociology and the Journal of Contemporary China. (E-mail: dzhao@src.uchicago.edu) ...

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