Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Ravi Arvind Palat is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Uni­ versity of Auckland, New Zealand and editor of Pacific-Asia and the Future of the World-System (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993). He is currently working on a book on the political econo­ my of Pacific-Asia. Eun Mee Kim is Associate Dean and Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University. Her publications include, Big Business, Strong State: Collusion and Conflict in South Korean Development, 1960-1990 (State University of New York Press, 1997), and an edited volume, The Four Asian Tigers: Economic Development and the Global Political Economy (Academic Press, 1998). Ryoichi Mohri is a Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Nihon Fukushi University, Aichi, Japan. Previously, he served as Direc­ tor of the Institute of Social Sciences at Nihon Fukushi Universi­ ty and as a Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. His research focus is international develop­ ment and finance. Alvin Y. So is Professor and Head of the Division of Social Sci­ ence and the Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Tech­ nology. His recent books include Asia's Environmental Movements (co-editor, M.E. Sharpe, 1999) and Hong Kong's Embattled Democ­ racy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999). Melvin Gurtov is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Portland State University, and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Perspective. Among his most recent publications are Global Poli­ tics in the Human Interest (Lynne Rienner, 4th ed., 1999); China's Security: The New Roles of the Military (with Byong-Moo Hwang; Lynne Rienner, 1998). Hyung-Kook Kim is a Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for Asian Studies at School of Interna­ tional Service at American University. He is the author of The Division ofKorea and the Alliance-Making Process (1995). Tae-Hwan Kwak is Professor of International Relations at East­ ern Kentucky University and former Director of the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University. He is the author of The Major Powers of Northeast Asia: Seeking Peace and Security (Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1996). Seung-Ho Joo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Morris. His articles appeared in Pacific Affairs, Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, Comparative Strategy, and Arms Control. He is the author of Gorbachev's Foreign Policy Toward the Two Korea (forthcoming, 1999). Chih-Chia Hsu is an Assistant Professor at Fu-Jen Catholic Uni­ versity, Taipei. He received his Ph.D. at National Chengchi Uni­ versity, Taipei. He current researches focus on Chinese foreign policy, Chinese politics, Sino-American relations, and Asia-Pacif­ ic security. Sung Bin Ko is a Lecturer of Political Science at Cheju National University. He specializes in Political Theory and Ideology, International Relations Theory, and Chinese Politics. He is the author of Dissent ofIntellectuals and Political Culture in Contempo­ rary China. Dingxin Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Uni­ versity of Chicago. His work has appeared in the American Jour­ nal of Sociology (1998), Sociological Perspectives (1997), Higher Edu­ cation (1996), Sociology (1994), and The Journal of Contemporary China (1994). He is currently working on a book on the causes and development of the 1989 Beijing student movement. Euiyoung Kim is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University. His research focuses on the political economy of business interest association, interest group politics, and government-business relations in Korea. Michael A. Schneider is Associate Professor of History at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, USA and is currently a visiting pro­ fessor at the Center for International Education, Waseda Univer­ sity, Tokyo, Japan. ...