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CONTRIBUTORS Martin Hart-Landsberg is Professor of Economics and Director of the East Asian Studies Program at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. Among his books are Rush to Development: Economic Change and Political Struggle in South Korea (Monthly Review Press, 1993) and Korea: Division, Reunification and U.S. Foreign Policy (Monthly Review Press, 1998). Vasily Mikheev is Deputy Director of the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. From 1981 to 1984 he was First Secretary of the Russian Embassy in North Korea. He has written numerous scholarly articles for Russian, Korean, and other journals on Russian foreign policy, Asian development, and AsiaPacific regional cooperation. Alvin Y. So is Professor of Sociology 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 ChinaTaiwan -Hong Kong, co-edited with Nan Lin and Dudley Poston (Greenwood Press, 2001). Geir Helgesen is a cultural sociologist who holds a position as Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Pacific Asia Studies, Stockholm University. His major work is Democracy and Authority in Korea: The Cultural Dimension in Korean Politics (Curzon Press and St. Martin's Press, 1998). He is affiliated with the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark. Wan-kyu Choi is Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean at the Graduate School of North Korean Studies, Kyungnam University. He has written widely on North Korea's political system and issues concerning Korean unification, including Where Is North Korea Headed: A Look at North Korea's Current Political Phenomenon (Kyungnam University Press, 1996). Taik-young Hamm is Professor of Political Science and director for research at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University. Among his works are The Political Economy of National Security (in Korean; Seoul: Bopmunsa, 1998), and Arming the Two Koreas: State, Capital and Military Power (London: Routledge, 1999). Seung-Yul Oh is a research fellow at the Korea Institute of National Unification. His areas of specialty are comparative economic systems and the North Korean and Chinese economies. His recent works (in Korean) include North Korea's Economic Reform and Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation (1998), and Economic Changes in North Korea and Its Incentive System (1999). Chung-in Moon is Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies and Professor of Political Science at Yonsei University. He has published numerous books and articles. His most recent publications include Korean Politics: An Introduction (SUNY Press, 2001) and Ending the Cold War in Korea (Yonsei University Press, 2001). Keun Lee is Associate Professor of Economics at Seoul National University. He has published numerous articles in several prolific domestic and international journals, as well as two monographs: Chinese Firms and the State in Transition (1991), and New East Asian Economic Development (1993) from M. E. Sharpe. Hong-Tack Chun is Vice President of the Korea Development Institute (KDI). He is author of "The Second Economy in North Korea," Seoul Journal ofEconomics (1999) and co-editor, with Youngsun Lee, of Economic Integration Policies in the Reunited Korea (KDI, 1997, in Korean). Peter Van Ness is a visiting fellow at the Contemporary China Centre and lectures on security in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University. He is editor of Debating Human Rights: Critical Essays from the United States and Asia (Routledge, 1999). ...