Tsuneo Akaha (Ph.D.) is Professor of International Policy Studies and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. He will be a Visiting Professor at Waseda University’s Faculty of International Research and Education in the fall of 2011. Akaha received his MA and Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Southern California and his BAs in Political Science from Oregon State University and from Waseda University. He is the recipient of a Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Award Special Prize, a Fulbright- Hayes Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship, a Japan Foundation Professional Fellowship, and numerous grants from such organizations as the U.S. Institute of Peace, the U.S. Department of Education, the Japan Foundation, the Center for Global Partnership, the Asia Foundation, the Freeman Foundation, and the Association for Asian Studies. He has held visiting professor/researcher positions at the United Nations University (Tokyo), the University of Tokyo, Waseda University, Seikei University (Tokyo), and the University of Shimane (Hamada, Japan). He has authored/edited eleven books, over 100 journal articles and book chapters on topics ranging from nontraditional security in Northeast Asia to Japanese security policy. His most recent publications include: “Japon: le difficile équilibre entre soft power et hard power” (Japan: the difficult balance between soft power and hard power), Politique étrangère, Vol. 76, No. 1 (March 2011); The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Balancing Hard and Soft Power in East Asia, London: Routledge, 2010 (co-edited with David Arase; received a Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Award Special Prize); “International Migration and Multicultural Coexistence in Japan: Resistance and Accommodation to Change,” The Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 53, No. 2 (2010); and “Human Security in East Asia: Embracing Global Norms through Regional Cooperation in Human Trafficking, Labor Migration, and HIV/AIDS,” Journal of Human Security, 2009. Akaha has served as President and now serves as a Board Member of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) and as President of the Comparative Interdisciplinary Studies Section of the International Studies Association (U.S.A.). He is Managing Editor of Asian Regional Integration Review, a publication of the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, and also a member of Editorial Board of International Relations of the Asia Pacific, a journal of the Japan Association of International Relations.