Biographical note

Tsuneo Akaha is Professor Emeritus, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (US). He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Southern California (US). He is the editor/co-editor of: The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Balancing Soft and Hard Power in East Asia; Crossing National Borders: Human Migration Issues in Northeast Asia; Politics and Economics in Northeast Asia: Nationalism and Regionalism in Contention; and Politics and Economics in the Russian Far East: Changing Ties with Asia-Pacific.

Jingdong Yuan is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney (Australia) and Associate Senior Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Dr. Yuan’s research focuses on Indo–Pacific security, Chinese foreign policy, Sino–Indian relations, and nuclear arms control and nonproliferation. He is the co-author/co-editor of Chinese Cruise Missiles: A Quiet Force-Multiplier, China and India: Cooperation or Conflict? and Australia and China at 40. He is currently completing a book manuscript on China-South Asian relations.

Wei Liang is Gordon Paul Smith Professor of International Policy at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (US). Her research interests include international political economy of East Asia and Chinese foreign economic policy. She is a co-author of China and East Asia’s Post-Crises Community and co-editor of China in Global Trading Governance and Challenges to China’s Economic Statecraft.