Bjorn Blengsli (Ph.D. candidate Norwegian University of Science and Technology) is an anthropologist presently residing and working in Cambodia for NBR, NORAD, the Working Group for Weapons Reduction (WGWR), Save the Children and local and regional newspapers. He currently conducts research for the Cambodian Ministry of Cults and Religious Affairs. Mr. Blengsli has lived among the Chams in Tbaung Khmum, Kampong Cham periodically since 2001.
Michael R. Chambers is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Indiana State University. Dr. Chambers has published articles and book chapters on China’s relations with its East Asian neighbors and on China’s alliance behavior, including in the Journal of East Asian Studies and the Journal of Contemporary China (forthcoming). He is also the editor of South Asia in 2020: Future Strategic Balances and Alliances. He has taught previously at St. Olaf College, and was a visiting scholar at the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University during 2003–2004.
Admiral Thomas B. Fargo, USN (Ret.) served as the 29th Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet from October 1999 to May 2002. His service as a leader in the Pacific was preceded by his command of the U.S. Fifth Fleet and Naval Forces of the Central Command during two years of Iraqi contingency operations from July 1996 to July 1998. He was the twentieth officer to hold the position of Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command. As the senior U.S. military commander in East Asia, the Pacific, and Indian Ocean areas, he led the largest unified command while directing the joint operations of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. He currently serves as CEO for Trex Systems International, Inc., a subsidiary of Trex Enterprises Corporation, a privately-owned technology company headquartered in Sorrento Valley that specializes in government and commercial research and development in the field of applied physics. He also leads the direction of two other subsidiaries of Trex—Loea Corporation, a high-speed, high-bandwidth communications company, and Sago Systems, Inc., a defense and homeland security company, developing state-of-the-art security technologies. In addition to his work at Trex, he is a consulting Professor at Stanford University’s International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Paul H. B. Godwin is a consultant and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia. He retired as Professor of International Affairs at the National War College, Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1998. His teaching and research specialties focus on Chinese defense and security policies. Professor Godwin's most recent publications are: “Change and Continuity in Chinese Military Doctrine: 1949–1999,” in Mark A. Ryan, David M. Finkelstein, and Michael A. McDevitt (eds.) Chinese Warfighting: the PLA Experience Since 1949; “China’s Defense Establishment: The Hard Lessons of Incomplete Modernization,” in Laurie Burkitt, Andrew Scobell, and Larry Wortzel (eds.) The Lessons of History: The Chinese People’s Liberation Army at 75; “Preserving the PLA’s Soul: Civil Military Relations and the New Generation of Chinese Leadership,” CAPS Papers no. 33; and “China as Regional Hegemon?” in Jim Rolfe (ed.) The Asia-Pacific Region in Transition. In the fall of 1987, he was a visiting Professor at the Chinese National Defense University.
Evelyn Goh is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She was educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, and Ph.D. in International Relations at Nuffield College, Oxford in 2001. Her main research interests lie in the areas of U.S. foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and the security and international relations of the Asia-Pacific. She is the author of Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961–1974: From Red Menace to Tacit Ally (2005), and has also published on the diplomatic history of U.S.-China relations; contemporary U.S. foreign policy; American and Chinese strategy in the Asia-Pacific; and environmental security in East Asia. She teaches postgraduate course on U.S. foreign policy, and on Cold War history and politics.
Mikkal Herberg is Director of the Asian Energy Security program at The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the west coast affiliate of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Association for Energy Economics, and the Board of Directors of the California Council on International Trade. He has contributed to NBR’s Strategic Asia 2004–05: Confronting Terrorism in the Pursuit of Power, and has appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Prior to joining NBR, Dr. Herberg was Director for Global Energy and Economics in the Strategic Planning group at ARCO where he was responsible for worldwide energy, economic, and political analysis. He also headed country risk analysis responsible for advising the executive management on risk conditions and investment strategies in countries and regions where ARCO had major investments. He was involved for 20 years in the strategic planning for ARCO’s investments in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Russia and the Caspian region, and North Africa. His previous positions with ARCO included Director of Portfolio Risk Management and Director for Emerging Markets. Prior to this he was at Bank of America in San Francisco where he was involved in developing international banking and country risk policies.
Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr. is the Director of the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College. He is a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars. He has published extensively in the areas of national security and military strategy formulation, future military requirements, and strategic planning. Previously, he held the Douglas MacArthur Professor of Research Chair at the U.S. Army War College. He also was Director of Military Requirements and Capabilities Management at the U.S. Army War College. His Army career included a combat tour in Vietnam and a number of command and staff assignments. While serving in the Plans, Concepts, and Assessments Division and the Conventional War Plans Division of the Joint Staff, he collaborated in the development of documents such as the National Military Strategy, the Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan, the Joint Military Net Assessment, national security directives, and presidential decision directives.
Robert W. Hefner (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University, where he directs the program on Islam and civil society. Dr. Hefner has carried out research on religion and politics in Southeast Asia for the past 28 years, and has conducted comparative research on Muslim culture and politics since the late 1980s. He is currently directing a project for the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs on “Madrasas, Modernity, and the Future of Muslim Higher Education.” Dr. Hefner has served as a consultant on Muslim and Southeast Asian affairs for government and non-governmental organizations, and is the invited editor for the sixth volume of the forthcoming New Cambridge History of Islam, Muslims and Modernity: Society and Culture since 1800. He has published more than a dozen books, his most recent being Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia (Princeton 2000) and, as editor, Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization (Princeton 2005). Four of his books have been translated into Indonesian.
Richard Kraince (Ph.D. Ohio University) directs Ohio Universitys’ Inter-Religious Dialogue Project, which involves a series of exchanges between religious leaders in Indonesia and the United States. His doctoral dissertation focused on Muslim student activism in post-authoritarian Indonesia. Dr. Kraince was a visiting research fellow at Indonesias’ National Institute for Islamic Studies (now the National Islamic University – UIN) from 1998 to 1999. In 2000, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research at various public Islamic universities in Indonesia. In 2001, Dr. Kraince served as a program officer in Jakarta with the Asia Foundations’ Islam and Civil Society program. He has also worked on projects in southern Thailand as a consultant with the Asia Foundations’ Islam in Asia program.
Joseph Chinyong Liow (Ph.D. London School of Economics) is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore. His research interests lie in the international politics of Southeast Asia, Muslim politics in Southeast Asia, and the domestic politics and foreign policy of Malaysia. Dr. Liow teaches the “Foreign Policies and Security Issues in Southeast Asia” and “State, Society, and Politics in Malaysia” modules in the IDSS MSc. program, and also teaches occasionally in staff courses and lecture series conducted by various ministries in Singapore. He is the author of The Politics of Indonesia-Malaysia Relations: One Kin, Two Nations (Routledge 2004) and co-editor of Order and Security in Southeast Asia: Essays in Memory of Michael Leifer (Routledge). Dr. Liow recently published articles in journals such as Southeast Asian Research, Third World Quarterly, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Studies in Conflict, and Terrorism and Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.
Thomas M. McKenna (Ph.D. University of California Davis) is currently Associate Director of the Scan Program at SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute) where he co-directs a broad-based futures research program. Prior to SRI, Dr. McKenna was associate professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has conducted ethnographic research in the southern Philippines for the past 15 years and has spent a total of two years living and working in a Muslim community there. Dr. McKenna’s interests focus on Muslim politics, armed separatism, ethno-nationalism, and economic development. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Dr. McKenna has published widely, including a book, Muslim Rulers and Rebels: Everyday Politics and Armed Separatism in the Southern Philippines (University of California Press 1998). He has recently consulted for the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, various U.S. government agencies, and a number of international NGOs.
Andrew Scobell is an Associate Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College. Born and raised in Hong Kong, he joined the Strategic Studies Institute in 1999 and is the institute's specialist on Asia-Pacific security. Prior to his current position, he taught at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, and Rutgers University, New Jersey. He is the author of China's Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March, ten monographs and reports, and some twenty articles in such journals as Armed Forces and Society, Asian Survey, China Quarterly, Comparative Politics, Current History, and Political Science Quarterly. He has also written a dozen book chapters and edited or co-edited four conference volumes. Dr. Scobell holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.
Sheldon W. Simon is Professor of Political Science and faculty affiliate of the Center for Asian Studies and Program in Southeast Asian Studies at Arizona State University where he has been a faculty member for 30 years. Dr. Simon is also Chairman of the Southeast Asian Studies Advisory Group and Senior Advisor to The National Bureau of Asian Research in Seattle. He is a consultant to the U.S. Departments of State and Defense on Asian security. Professor Simon is author or editor of nine books, most recently The Many Faces of Asian Security and over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters in such journals as Asian Survey, Pacific Affairs, The Pacific Review, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Comparative Connections–An E-Journal of East Asian Bilateral Relations, International Politics, The Australian Journal of International Affairs, NBR Analysis, The Journal of Asian and African Studies, and The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis. In recent years, Simon has held research grants from The U.S. Pacific Command, the W. Alton Jones Foundation, and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He visits Asia annually for research, guest lectures, and conferences.
Etel Solingen is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, and Chair of the Steering Committee of the University of California’s system wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). She is the author of Regional Orders at Century's Dawn: Global and Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy, Industrial Policy, Technology, and International Bargaining: Nuclear Industries in Argentina and Brazil, and Scientists and the State. Her articles appeared in International Security, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Politics, Journal of Peace Research, Review of International Studies, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Global Governance, Journal of Democracy, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Asian Survey, International History Review, International Politics, and Contemporary Southeast Asia, among others. She has previously worked as Vice-President of the International Studies Association and is the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Award on Peace and International Cooperation, a Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation Fellowship on Peace and Security in a Changing World, a Japan Foundation/SSRC Abe Fellowship, and United States Institute of Peace, CGP/Japan Foundation, Columbia Foundation, Sloan Foundation, and University of California's IGCC and Pacific Rim grants.
Ian Storey is an Assistant Professor in the College of Security Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS). Dr. Storey's research interests include Southeast Asian security, ASEAN's relations with external powers, and Chinese foreign and defense policies. He has published articles in Contemporary Southeast Asia, Parameters, and Naval War College Review, and is a regular contributor to Jane's Intelligence Review. His latest book is The China Threat: Perceptions, Myths and Reality. He is currently working on Southeast Asia and the Rise of China: The Search for Security. Prior to his appointment at APCSS Dr. Storey was a lecturer in International Relations and Defence Studies at Deakin University, Australia. He was also Course Coordinator for the Defence and Strategic Studies Course delivered by Deakin University at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies (CDSS), the Australian Defence College (ADC), Canberra. CDSS is Australia's most senior military college and is attended by 50 senior military and civilian strategic policy practitioners at the rank of colonel or equivalent.
Robert Sutter is a Visiting Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has published 14 books, including The United States and East Asia: Dynamics and Implications, and Chinese Policy Priorities and Their Implications for the United States, as well as numerous articles and several hundred government reports dealing with contemporary East Asian and Pacific countries and their relations with the United States. He has held a variety of analytical and supervisory positions with the Library of Congress. After leaving the Library of Congress where he was for many years the Senior Specialist in International Politics for the Congressional Research Service, Dr. Sutter served for two years as the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and the Pacific at the U.S. National Intelligence Council.
Home | Contact NBR | Feedback | Privacy Policy | Apply to NBR
Copyright 2008 The National Bureau of Asian Research