Brief biographies of workshop members

“Reconciliation between China and Japan: A Search for Solutions”

August 17 and 18, 2006, at Australian National University

Amitav Acharya is Professor and Deputy Director and Head of Research at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His recent publications include Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order (Routledge, 2001, reprinted 2003; Chinese translation published by Shanghai People's Press, 2004), Age of Fear: Power Versus Principle in the War on Terror (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish; New Delhi: Rupa, 2004), Reassessing Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (co-editor, MIT Press, 2005), and articles in International Organization and International Security. He is a founding member and co-president of the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA), and a member of the editorial board of the journals Pacific Review, Pacific Affairs, and European Journal of International Relations. His current research interests include Southeast Asian and Asia Pacific security, regionalism and multilateralism, normative change in world politics and international relations theory. ISAAcharya@ntu.edu.sg

Tomoko Akami is Lecturer and currently Head of the Centre for Asian Societies and Histories at the Faculty of Asian Studies at the College of Asia and the Pacific of the Australian National University. Her main interest is ideas in the history of international relations in the Asia-Pacific region, and she uses cases from Japan in her analysis. She has been working on welfare liberalism, broad notions of security and soft power of information. Her publications include: Internationalizing the Pacific, London: Routledge, 2002; and “In the name of people: welfare and societal security in modern Japan and beyond”, Asian Perspective, vol.30, no.1 (Spring, 2006), pp.157-190; “Nation, state, empire and war: problems of liberalism in modern Japanese history and beyond”, Japanese Studies, vol.25, no.2 (September 2005), pp.119-140. tomoko.akami@anu.edu.au

Chris Braddick. My interest in Sino-Japanese relations began in 1980 when I read International Politics at University College Wales, Aberystwyth. My understanding of the relationship deepened after undertaking an MA at SOAS/LSE, University of London in 1983-84. I spent two years at the University of Tokyo (1987-89) researching the trilateral Japan-China-Soviet Union relationship, before taking up a position at Musashi University, where I eventually became Professor of International Political History. My D.Phil, completed at the University of Oxford in 1998, examined the effect of the Sino-Soviet Alliance on Japan from 1950-1964. It was subsequently published by Palgrave/Macmillan in 2004. I have been a visiting fellow at the ANU since 2001. chris.braddick@anu.edu.au

Mumin Chen, Ph.D. is currently assistant professor at the Graduate Institute of Political Science, National Changua University of Education (NCUE), Taiwan. Dr. Chen received his doctoral and master’s degrees in International Studies from the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, USA (2004 and 1997, respectively), and bachelor’s degree from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, with a major in Political Science (1992). His doctoral dissertation research (“Prosperity but Insecurity: Globalization and China’s National Security, 1979-2000”) received the “China Times Cultural Foundation Young Scholar Award” in 2001. From 2001 to 2002, Dr. Chen was a visiting scholar at the School of International Studies, Peking University (PKU), China, and taught as adjunct lecturer at PKU. From 2002 to 2004, he worked as special assistant to Vice President Annette Lu of Taiwan, in charge of drafting English speeches and analysis of foreign/cross-strait relations. He joined NCUE as a full-time faculty member in September 2004. Dr. Chen’s research focuses include: international security, Chinese foreign policy, and Taiwan-China relations. mumin@cc.ncue.edu.tw
Chris Chung (Ph.D.) is Acting Director of Studies, Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University. His primary research interests are Asia-Pacific maritime affairs, transnational security and foreign policy analysis. Prior to entering academia Dr. Chung worked for 15 years in a variety of public and private sector organisations, most recently for a decade in the Environment Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). There he managed the Organisation’s Asia regional and the China country programs of environmental co-operation as well as undertaking environmental policy analysis in central and eastern Europe and OECD member countries. His latest work is “Australia and Non-traditional Security Threats in Southeast Asia” in Brendan Taylor (ed.), Friendships in Flux? Australia as an Asia-Pacific Power, RoutledgeCurzon, London, (forthcoming). chris.chung@anu.edu.au

Malcolm Cook, Program Director Asia Pacific Region at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, completed a PhD in international relations from the Australian National University, and holds an MA in international relations from the International University of Japan and an honours degree from McGill University in Canada. Before moving to Australia in 2000, Malcolm lived and worked in the Philippines, South Korea and Japan and spent much time in Singapore and Malaysia. Before joining the Institute in November 2003, Malcolm ran his own consulting practice on East Asian risk analysis. mcook@lowyinstitute.org

Mel Gurtov is Professor of Political Science and International Studies in the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University, Oregon. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Asian Perspective, an international quarterly. He previously served on the staff of the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, Calif. (1966-71), where he was a co-author of the Pentagon Papers, and at the University of California, Riverside (1971-86), where he was professor of political science. He has published twenty books and numerous articles on East Asian affairs, U.S. foreign policy, and global politics. His most recent books are Superpower on Crusade: The Bush Doctrine in US Foreign Policy (Rienner, 2006); Pacific Asia? Prospects for Security and Cooperation in East Asia (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002); Confronting the Bush Doctrine: Critical Perspectives from Asia-Pacific, co-edited with Peter Van Ness (Routledge, 2005); and Global Politics in the Human Interest, 4th ed. (Rienner, 1999). Mel is a frequent visitor to East Asia, where he has been a visiting professor—at Waseda University in Tokyo and Hankuk Foreign Studies University in Seoul—and has lectured at universities in South Korea, Japan, and China. He is fluent in Chinese. mgurtov@aol.com

Yusaku Horiuchi is a Senior Lecturer in ANU's Crawford School of Economics and Government. A native of Japan, Dr. Horiuchi received a master's degree in Economics from Yale University, and his doctoral degree in Political Science from MIT. Before joining ANU, he taught for three years at the National University of Singapore and supervised many graduate students from China. From 1991 to 1993, he was a loan officer of Japan's governmental agency and in change of ODA loans to China. One of his research interests is comparative public opinion, in particular public opinion in one country about another country (e.g., China about Japan; Japan about China; non-US countries about US). yasuku.horiuchi@anu.edu.au

David Hundt’s main areas of interest are Political Economy, Economic Development, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific/East Asia. He has a particular interest in the history, politics and economics of the Korean peninsula. Dr. Hundt received his doctorate in 2005 from the University of Queensland in Political Science, with a thesis that re-examined the power relations between the state and capital during the industrialisation of South Korea. He is currently working at the University of Queensland as a Research Officer on a project focusing on Security Sector Reform in Southeast Asia. d.hundt@uq.edu.au
Wenran Jiang (BA, Peking University; MA, International University of Japan; Ph.D., Carleton University) is associate professor of political science and acting director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta in Canada. He is twice a Japan Foundation Fellow, visiting scholar to Tokyo University, Hitotsubashi University and Sophia University over the years, a senior fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Vice President of the Canadian Consortium on Asia-Pacific Security, and a BusinessWeek online columnist. He is currently completing a book on Sino-Japanese relations.

Jin Xide, born on May 22,1954 in Jilin Province, China, deputy director and professor of the Institute of Japanese Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He got his MA degree on the History of Japanese Modern Philosophy in 1985 from Yan Bian University, China, and a Ph.D. degree on Japanese Diplomacy in 1994 from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Since June of 1994, he has worked at the Institute of Japanese Studies, CASS, doing research on Japanese diplomacy, Sino-Japanese relations and situation of North East Asia. His major publications include: A History of Modern Japanese Philosophy, Japan-US Axis and Economic Diplomacy, The Japanese Way of Official Development Assistance, Sino-Japanese Relations in the 21st Century. jin_68@hotmail.com

Ryosei Kokubun (Ph.D.) is Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies and Professor of the Political Science Department at Keio University. After completing graduate courses at Keio, he began teaching there in 1981, and became Associate Professor in 1985 and Professor in 1992. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, The University of Michigan, Fudan University, Beijing University and National Taiwan University. His research interest is Chinese politics and foreign relations and international relations in East Asia. He is also President of the Japan Association for Asian Studies (2005-2007), Vice President of The Japan Association of International Relations (2004-2006) and Japanese side Director of the 21st Century Commission for Japan-China Friendship (2003-). He edited Challenges for China-Japan-US Cooperation, Japan Center for International Exchange and The Rise of China and a Changing East Asian Order, JCIE. His publications (Japanese) also include Politics and Bureaucracy in Contemporary China (2004, Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities) and Chinese Politics and Democratization (1992). rkokubun@iris.ocn.ne.jp

Mindy L. Kotler is founder and director of the Asia Policy Point (APP), formerly the Japan Information Access Project, a membership nonprofit research center in Washington, DC studying the US policy relationship with Japan and other countries in Northeast Asia. APP’s members include leading American scholars, policy officials, analysts, and journalists who follow the region. APP has over 15 years of experience introducing new research, analysis, and information to the American Asia policy community. Ms. Kotler received her Master of Arts degree in International Relations from Yale University and her Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and History with High Honors in Chinese History from Smith College. home@jiaponline.org

Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Professor of Japanese History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. She convenes the Asian Civic Rights Network, and edits its online journal Asiarights. Her research focuses on frontiers and migration in Northeast Asia and issues of history and memory in Japan. Her recent books include The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History (Verso, 2005) and Exodus to North korea: Shadows from Japan’s Cold War (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming 2006). She is also a co-editor of the eight-volume series Ajia Taiheiyô Sensô [The Asia Pacific War], published by Iwanami, 2005-2006. tessa.morris-suzuki@anu.edu.au

Katherine Morton is a Fellow in the Department of International Relations, RSPAS, ANU. She is a China specialist and her research interests include global civil society, international environmental politics, international development, and the influence of international norms and interventions on domestic political and socio-economic change. She is presently engaged in a study of transnational advocacy at the grassroots in China and its impact on the struggle for social and environmental justice. Her recent publications include ‘Surviving an Environmental Crisis: Can China Adapt?’ The Brown Journal of World Affairs, vol.XIII, issue I, Summer/Fall 2006, 'The Emergence of NGOs in China and their Transnational Linkages: Implications for Domestic Reform', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol.59, no.4, December 2005, and International Aid and China's Environment: Taming the Yellow Dragon, Routledge Studies on China in Transition, Routledge, 2005. katherine.morton@anu.edu.au

Shi Yinhong, Professor of International Relations, Director of the Center for American Studies, Renmin University of China in Beijing. He spent nearly three years in research at Harvard University, the Federal Institute for Eastern European and International Studies in Cologne, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and taught graduate courses at the University of Michigan, Aichi University in Nagoya, and the University of Denver. He has published eight books and more than 300 articles in academic journals, foreign affairs magazines, and newspapers. Many of his publications have had wide influence in China and some have also been influential internationally. y.shi@263.net

Richard Tanter is Professor of International Relations, RMIT University, Melbourne, and Senior Research Associate, Nautilus Institute in San Francisco and Acting Director of Nautilus@RMIT. Within Nautilus he has particular responsibilities for the Global Collaborative and Global Problem-Solving project, and is coordinator of Nautilus@RMITs Austral Peace and Security Net (http://nautilus.rmit.edu.au/). Richard has worked on peace, security and environment issues in East and Southeast Asia as analyst, policy advocate and activist, and also as a radio producer and election campaign director. His most recent books on East Timor are Masters of Terror: Indonesia's Military and Violence in East Timor in 1999, [co-edited with Gerry Van Klinken and Desmond Ball] and Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers: East Timor, Indonesia and the World Community [edited with Mark Selden and Stephen Shalom].
http://nautilus.rmit.edu.au/staff/richard-tanter.html

Takahiko Tennichi was born in Tokyo, 1957. He has worked as an editorial writer for the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper since 2003. He joined Yomiuri in 1981, after receiving his B.A. in Law from the University of Tokyo. He received his M.A. from Johns Hopkins University's the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 1995. He is a coauthor of "Challenges for China-Japan-U.S. Cooperation" published by the Japan Center for International Exchange. He has written many articles on historical issues, Japanese foreign policy and international relations. tent6048@yomiuri.com

Mark J. Valencia is an internationally known maritime policy analyst, political commentator and consultant focused on Asia. He was a Senior Fellow with the East-West Center for 26 years where he originated, developed and managed international, interdisciplinary projects on maritime policy and international relations in Asia. He has a M.A. in Marine Affairs from the University of Rhode Island and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Hawaii. Before joining the East-West Center, Dr. Valencia was a Lecturer at the Universiti Sains Malaysia and a Technical Expert with the UNDP Regional Project on Offshore Prospecting based in Bangkok.
He has published over 150 articles and books and is a frequent contributor to the public media such as the Far Eastern Economic Review, International Herald Tribune, Asia Wall Street Journal, Japan Times and Washington Times. Selected works include The Proliferation Security Initiative : Making Waves in Asia (Adelphi Paper 376, International Institute for Strategic Studies, October 2005), Military and Intelligence Gathering Activities in the Exclusive Economic Zone :Consensus and Disagreement (co-editor, Marine Policy Special Issues, March 2005 and January 2004); Maritime Regime Building: Lessons Learned and Their Relevance for Northeast Asia (Martinus Nijhoff, 2002); Sharing the Resources of the South China Sea (with Jon Van Dyke and Noel Ludwig, Martinus Nijhoff, 1997); A Maritime Regime for Northeast Asia (Oxford University Press, 1996); China and the South China Sea Disputes (Adelphi Paper 298, Institute for International and Strategic Studies, 1995); Atlas for Marine Policy in East Asian Seas (with Joseph Morgan, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992); and Pacific Ocean Boundary Problems: Status and Solutions (with Douglas Johnston, Martinus Nijhoff, 1991).
Dr. Valencia has been a Fulbright Fellow, an Abe Fellow, a DAAD (German Government) Fellow, an International Institute for Asian Studies ( Leiden University) Visiting Fellow , an Ocean Policy Research Foundation (Japan) Visiting Scholar and a U.S. State Department–sponsored international speaker. He has also been a consultant to international organizations and NGOs ( e.g., IMO, UNDP , UNU, the Nautilus Institute, PEMSEA); government institutions and agencies ( in, e.g., Brunei, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam and the USA); and numerous private entities (e.g. , Shell, CONOCO, and legal firms handling maritime issues). mjvalencia@hawaii.rr.com

Willem E.C. van Kemenade is Senior Fellow, Clingendael Institute of International Relations, The Hague; and Senior Research Consultant, European Institute of Asian Studies, Brussels. He studied History and Chinese in Amsterdam/Leiden and obtained M.A. degree in 1977. From 1977 through 1997 he was based in Hong Kong, Taipei and Beijing as a free lance journalist, writing mainly for Dutch/Belgian and occasionally international newspapers.
His book, “China, Hong Kong, Taiwan Inc., The Dynamics of a New Empire”, New York, Knopf, was published in 1997/1998. (Also published in Dutch, German, Turkish and Chinese).
Other publications include:
Articles: The Washington Quarterly from 1998-2001 on Cross-Straits Relations. Will China’s Rise be Peaceful ? IIAS News Letter, Leiden, # 37, June 2005.
Reports: What is left of the One-China Formula ? Party Politics, Reunification and Taiwanese Nation Building, International Crisis Group, Brussels, Spring 2003.
The Political Economy of Northeast Asian Integration, Policy paper for the European Commission, European Institute of Asian Studies, Brussels, August 2005.
China and the European Union: Commonalities, Limitations, Potential 2006-2010; XRG China Dialogue Network, Hong Kong, December 2005.
For more articles, lectures and papers see my website: www.willemvk.org; and www.clingendael.nl; www.eias.org;

Peter Van Ness (PhD, Berkeley) is a visiting fellow at the Contemporary China Centre and the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University . Van Ness is a specialist on Chinese foreign policy and the international relations of the Asia-Pacific region, and he has served as a member of the board of directors of both the National Committee on US-China Relations and the Human Rights in China organization. Awarded two Fulbright fellowships to Japan, he has taught at four Japanese universities, including Keio University and the University of Tokyo. He has been a research fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei. His most recent book is Confronting the Bush Doctrine: Critical Views from the Asia-Pacific, edited with Mel Gurtov (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005). pvan@coombs.anu.edu.au