Contributors

Dukgeun Ahn is an Associate Professor of International Trade Law and Policy at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, Korea. His research interests include trade policy, WTO law and policy, and trade negotiations. His recent publications include ‘WTO Dispute Settlements in East Asia’ in T. Ito and A. K. Rose (eds.), International Trade in East Asia (University of Chicago Press, 2005), and M. Matsushita and D. Ahn (eds.), WTO and East Asia: New Perspectives (Cameron May, 2004).

Ken-ichi Ando is a Professor of Economics at Shizuoka University, Japan. His research interests cover the political economy of EU integration, and foreign direct investment in macro-regional integrated economies. His recent publications include Japanese Multinationals in Europe: A Comparison of the Automobile and Pharmaceutical Industries (Edward Elgar, 2005), and ‘Eastern Enlargement of the European Union and Multinational Enterprises’ (Nihon EU Gakkai Nempo [EU Studies in Japan] Vol. 26: 205-231, 2006).

Kenji Hirashima is a Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include the comparative study of politics, and German and European politics. Among his recent publications are The Emergence of European Governance (Iwanami Shoten, 2004) [in Japanese], ‘The Emergence of European Employment Policy: Mechanisms of Policy Innovation in the EU’ (University of Tokyo Journal of Law and Politics vol. 5: 38-51, Spring 2008) [in Japanese], and, K. Hirashima (ed.), Policy Experimentation beyond Borders in the EU (The University of Tokyo Press, 2008) [in Japanese].

Kentaro Kawasaki is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Business Administration, Toyo University, Japan. His research interests include international currencies and international finance. His recent publications include E. Ogawa and K. Kawasaki ‘Possibilities for the introduction of a currency basket in East Asia, from an OCA standpoint’ in T. Ito (ed.), A Basket Currency for Asia (Routledge, 2007).

Tomoo Marukawa is a Professor of Chinese Economy at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan. He specialises in the contemporary Chinese economy. His recent publications include Contemporary Chinese Industry: The Strength and Weakness of Rising Chinese Corporations (Chuokoron Shinsha, 2007) [in Japanese], and 'The Supplier Network in China's Automobile Industry from a Geographic Perspective' (Modern Asian Studies Review vol.1 (1): 77-102, 2006).

Tamio Nakamura is a Professor of Law at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan. His research interests cover the constitutional and administrative law of the European Union and Great Britain, and the comparative study of regionalism. His recent publications include ‘The EU as a Plural Constitutional Order: An Approach to the Constitutional Treaty’ (Nihon EU Gakkai Nempo [EU Studies in Japan] Vol.25: 22-54, 2005), Tamio Nakamura (ed.), The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism in Comparative Perspective (Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, 2006), ditto (ed.), The New Horizon of EU Studies: New Approaches to the Polity Sui Generis (Minerva Shobo, 2005)[in Japanese].

Eiji Ogawa is a Professor of International Money and Finance at the Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University, Japan. He has published extensively on East Asian currencies, including E. Ogawa and T. Kudo ‘Asymmetric responses of East Asian currencies to the US dollar depreciation for reducing the US current account deficits’ (Journal of Asian Economics Vol.18 (1): 175-194, 2007), E. Ogawa and K. Kawasaki ‘Possibilities for the introduction of a currency basket in East Asia, from an OCA standpoint’ in T. Ito (ed.), A Basket Currency for Asia (Routledge, 2007).

Yoshiaki Sato is an Associate Professor of Law at the Law Faculty, Seikei University, Japan. His research interests include international conflict resolution and international protection of human rights. He is the author of Judicial Minimalism of the International Court of Justice: Seeking the Right Balance of Law Making and Conflict Resolution (University of Tokyo Press, forthcoming in 2009) [in Japanese].

Kazushi Shimizu is a Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Economics, Kyushu University, Japan. His research interests include ASEAN economic issues, especially intra-ASEAN economic cooperation and foreign direct investment in Southeast Asia. He is the author of The Political Economy of Intra-ASEAN Economic Cooperation (Minerva Publishing, 1998) [in Japanese], and his recent publications include ‘East Asian Economic Cooperation and FTA: The Deepening of Intra-ASEAN Economic Cooperation and the Enlargement to East Asia’ (Economic Journal of Hokkaido University, Vol.36: 73-96, 2007).

Barbara Stallings is the William R. Rhodes Professor of Political Economy and the Director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, USA. Her research interests cover economic reform and development, particularly in Latin America and East Asia, finance for development, and the international political economy. Her recent publications include Finance for Development: Latin America in Comparative Perspective (Brookings Institution Press, 2006) and ‘Financial Sector Development in Latin America and East Asia: a Comparison of Chile and South Korea’ in J. Nakagawa (ed.), Managing Development: Globalization, Economic Restructuring and Social Policy (Routledge, 2006).

Takao Suami is a Professor of Law at Waseda University Law School, Japan. His research interests include international economic law, EU law and lawyers’ professional responsibility. His recent publications include (co-editorially with T. Nakamura) Leading Cases on the Law of the European Union (Nihon Hyoronsha, 2007) [in Japanese], (co-editorially with K. Tsuchida) Government Regulation and Economic Law: Antitrust vs. Sector-specific Regulation in the Age of Regulatory Reform (Nihon Hyoronsha, 2006) [in Japanese].

Lawan Thanadsillapakul is a Professor of Law and the Director of The Institute for International Business and Economic Law Study at Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Her research interests cover international economic law and competition law. Her recent publications include ‘The Harmonization of ASEAN Competition Law and Policy’ (Revue de Droit Uniforme Vol. 9 (3): 479-500, 2004), and ‘ASEAN Bilateral Investment Agreement’ (Sukhothai Thammathirat Law Journal Vol. 15 (1): 162-195, 2003).

Yoichiro Usui is a Professor of EU Studies at Niigata University of International and Information Studies, Japan. His research interests include discourse and constructivist approaches to regionalism, particularly regional cooperation in Europe and East Asia. His recent publications include ‘The Democratic Quality of Soft Governance in the EU Sustainable Development Strategy: A Deliberative Deficit’ (Journal of European Integration Vol. 29(5): 619-634, 2007), ‘An Evolving Path of Regionalism: The Construction of an Environmental Acquis in the EEC and ASEAN’ in T. Nakamura (ed.), The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism in Comparative Perspective (Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, 2007).