Contributors

Pieter Bottelier is a visiting Associate Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. He was an Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard University (KSG) and at Georgetown University. He has authored many articles on China’s economy. Bottelier worked for the World Bank as the Senior Advisor to the Vice President for East Asia; Chief of the World Bank’s Resident Mission in Beijing; consecutive director for Latin America and North Africa; Division Chief for Mexico; resident Chief Economist in Jakarta, Indonesia; and had various assignments as desk economist for East- and West African countries. He received Drs degree (MA equivalent) from the University of Amsterdam and attend MIT Ph.D program.

Chen Dongxiao is a Senior Fellow and Director of Department of American Studies at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS). Prior to this position, he was director of Department of International Organizations and International Law, and deputy director of Dept. of American Studies. Chen specializes in the studies on American foreign policy and international collective security regime.

Bernard D. Cole is Professor of International History at the National War College in Washington, D.C., where he concentrates on the Chinese military and Asian energy issues. He previously served 30 years as a Surface Warfare Officer in the Navy, all in the Pacific. He commanded USS Rathburne (FF 1057) and Destroyer Squadron 35, served as a Naval Gunfire Liaison Officer with the Third Marine Division in Vietnam, as Plans Officers for Commander-in-Chief Pacific Fleet, and as special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations for Expeditionary Warfare. Cole has written numerous articles and four books: Gunboats and Marines: The U.S. Navy in China; The Great Wall at Sea: China's Navy Enters the 21st Century; Oil for the Lamps of China: Beijing's 21st Century Search for Energy; and Taiwan’s Security: History and Prospects, published in January 2006. Dr. Cole earned an A.B. in History from the University of North Carolina, an M.P.A. (National Security Affairs) from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. in History from Auburn University.

June Teufel Dreyer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami. She received her MA and PhD from Harvard University. In addition to energy issues, her research interests include China’s ethnic minorities, Sino-Japanese relations, and cross-Strait relations. She is a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. From 2001 through 2005, Dreyer served as commissioner of the congressionally-established U.S.-China Economic and Security Research Commission.

Elizabeth Economy is C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director of Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has published extensively on both Chinese domestic and foreign policy, including The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future (forthcoming, Cornell University Press, 2004); articles in foreign policy and scholarly journals such Foreign Affairs and Survival; and op-eds and book reviews published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune and others. She serves on several China-related boards and consults frequently for the U.S. government. Dr. Economy received her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, her A.M. at Stanford University and her B.A. at Swarthmore College.

Jean Anne Garrison is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Garrison is the author of two books Making China Policy: From Nixon to G.W. Bush (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Pub, 2005) and Games Advisors Play: Foreign Policy in the Nixon and Carter Administrations (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999), and several book chapters and journal articles (including publications in the International Studies Review, Political Psychology, Cooperation and Conflict, Asian Affairs, and Asian Perspective. In 2003, she was the recipient of a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship and several months in 2004 posted with the State Department’s Bureau of East Asian Pacific Affairs working on the China desk. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of South Carolina.

Li Wei is an Associate Research Fellow and Director of Department of American & Oceanian Studies at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation (CAITEC). Before joining the Department of American & Oceania Studies, he was Deputy Director of the Academy’s Department of Asian & African Studies, and his fields of specialization were East Asian economic cooperation, especially trade and economic cooperation between ASEAN and China. He has served as a member of China-ASEAN Economic Cooperation Expert Group.

Jia Qingguo is Professor and Associate Dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988. He was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution between 1985 and 1986. He has taught in University of Vermont, Cornell University, University of California at San Diego, University of Sydney in Australia as well as Peking University. He has published extensively on U.S.-China relations, relations between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, Chinese foreign policy as well as Chinese politics. He is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Contemporary China (USA), Political Science (New Zealand), International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (Japan) and China Review (Hong Kong). He is also Vice President of the China Association for Asia-Pacific Studies, a board member of the China Association of American Studies, and a board member of the National Taiwan Studies Association.

Phillip C. Saunders is a Senior Research Professor at the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies since January 2004. He previously worked at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he served as Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and taught courses on Chinese politics, Chinese foreign policy, and East Asian security. Saunders has conducted research and consulted on East Asian security issues for Princeton University, the Council on Foreign Relations, RAND, and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Saunders has published numerous articles on China and Asian security in journals including International Security, China Quarterly, The China Journal, Survival, Asian Survey, Pacific Review, and Orbis. Saunders attended Harvard College and received his MPA and Ph.D. in International Relations from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

Xu Jian is Vice President of Institute of International Studies in Beijing and a senior research fellow. He received his BA and MA degrees in history from Peking Normal University and a MA degree in law from University of Sussex and a Ph.D in law from University of Bristol. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Xu worked in the International Studies Center of the State Council. He joined CIIS in 1999. Before taking the current position, he was Director of Division of International Politics. His research areas cover international politics, Asia-Pacific security and globalization.

Baohui Zhang is an Associate Professor of Politics at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include democratization, U.S.-China relations, and political reform in Hong Kong. He has published in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Democratization, Theory & Society, and Asian Perspective.