Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Aurel Croissant is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany. He is author of Politische Transformation in Suedkorea (1998), and a forthcoming book on the post-transitional development of democracy in the Philippines, Korea, and Thailand (2002). He is one of five co­ authors of a two-volume study, Defective Democracy (forthcoming in 2002). (Email: aurel.croissant@urz.uni-heidelberg.de) Duckjoon Chang is Assistant Professor in the School of Interna­ tional Area Studies at Kookmin University, Seoul. He has written articles on Soviet/Russian economic reform debates during the 1990s, privatization programs of the Russian Federation, and Russia's relations with Japan and Korea. (Email: dchang@mail. kookmin.ac.kr) Geun Lee is an Assistant Professor in the School of International and Area Studies, Seoul National University. Previously, he worked at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, a think tank for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Korea. He has published numerous articles on the international political econo­ my of Northeast Asia. (Email: gnlee@snu.ac.kr) Sung Deuk Hahm is Associate Professor of Political Economy and Chairman of the Department of Public Administration at Korea University, Seoul. He was Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Business Administration at Georgetown University and was Man­ aging Editor of Governance (Blackwell Press, Oxford). (Email: hahm 33@hotmail.com) Hyun-Chool Lee is a Research Fellow at Osaka City University, Japan. His research has focused on party politics in Korea and Japan. He is author of Parties and Democracy: Intra-Party Democracy of Korean Political Parties (Seoul: Orom, 1997) and translator into Korean of State and Local Politics: Government By the People (Prentice Hall, 1996) (Seoul: Daewangsa, 2001). (Email: lhc0609@hanmail.net) Mi-Gyeung Yeum is Research Professor of the Homan Culture Research Center at Chonnam National University, Korea. She has been a visiting researcher at the International Center for the Study of East Asian Development in Kitakyushu, Japan, and at the Center for Social and Urban Research of the University of Pittsburgh. Her publications include From Memory to the Visual (Seoul: Kummoon Press, 1999) and Urban Growth Politics and Change of Urban Regimes in Kitakyushu, A Japanese Steel City (Seoul: Kyungin Moonhwasa, 2001). (Email: mgyeum@hotmail.com) Jung Kim is a Research Fellow at the East Asia Institute in Seoul and a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. His research interests include party politics, labor politics, and the impact of globalization on domestic political economy in East Asian democracies. His publications include articles on Korean and Japanese politics. (Email: jung.kim.jk472@ yale.edu) Sook-Jong Lee is a Research Fellow at the Sejong Institute. Her research areas cover diverse issues in Japanese political economy and Japanese society. She has co-authored books titled Japans New Political Economy (Sungnam: The Sejong Institute, 1998) and KoreaJapan Relations in Transition (Sungnam: The Sejong Institute, 2002), and has published several articles on Korean civil society and NGOs. (Email: skjlee@job.sejong.org) Heejun Chang is Assistant Professor of Geography at Portland State University, Oregon. An environmental geographer, his main research interests are the human dimensions of global climate change and its impacts on hydrology and water resources. He has published articles in Climate Research, The Professional Geographer, and the Journal of the American Water Resources Association. (Email: changh@pdx.edu) ...