Annexe C. About the contributors

China

Chai Benliang (China) is Senior Analyst at the China Defence Science and Tech- nology Information Centre, Beijing. He conducts research on weapon systems acquisi- tion, defence R&D and defence industries and is Deputy Chief Editor of China High and New Technology Enterprise Assessment. His recent publications include two research reports sponsored by the China Natural Science Foundation: [Large-scale engineering project management] (1993, in Chinese) and [Technological changes and productivity] (1993, in Chinese). He has also contributed to the government White Paper on disarmament and arms control (1996). Fan Wei (China) has a Ph.D. from the Peace and Development Research Institute at Gothenburg University, Sweden. He previously served as Instructor at the Air Force College of Engineering in China. Ku Guisheng (China) is Professor of Economics at the National Defence University of the People’s Liberation Army, Beijing. His recent publications include [China’s defence construction] (1993, in Chinese) and [National economic mobilization] (1995, in Chinese). Ling Ruyong (China) is Senior Engineer at the Marine Systems Engineering Research Institute at the China State Shipbuilding Corporation, Beijing. He is co-author of [Handbook of management sciences] (1994, in Chinese) and [Ship lifetime costs analysis and ship survivability] (forthcoming, in Chinese) and a member of the editor- ial committee of the [Dictionary of ship-borne weapons and electronic technologies] (1993, in Chinese). Luo Fengbiao (China) was Senior Engineer at the Research and Development Department of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation, Beijing, in 1976–93. He previously served as Chief Engineer of the Turbine and Boiler Research Institute of the China Ship Research and Development Academy. Sun Zhian (China) is Director of the Policy Study Division at the General Staff Weapon and Equipment Integrated Analysis Institute of the People’s Liberation Army, Beijing, studying weapon- and equipment-developing policies and participating in plan and programme preparation work. Yan Xuetong (China) is Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations in Beijing and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of International Relations at Beijing University. He is Commentator of Outlook Weekly and author of [Analysis of China’s national interest] (in Chinese, 1995). 308 AR MS P R OC UR EMENT DEC IS ION MAKING

India

Gurdev Singh Ahuja (India), Brigadier, is a technical and defence adviser to indus- trial enterprises and national and international associations. He formerly served in the Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and in the Department of Defence Pro- duction where he was Chairman of the Technical Committee of Combat Vehicles. He is author of Doing Business with Defence (1992) and ‘Transfer of technologies from Indian small and medium enterprises’ in India: An Economic Overview (1992). Kapil Dev Chadha (India), Air Marshal, has served in the Indian Air Force and retired as Chief of the Eastern Air Command. He was also an instructor at the National Defence College, New Delhi, and at the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington. He is author of ‘Air power in the Indian context’, Trishul, no. 1 (1993). Padmanabha Ranganath Chari (India) is Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Co-director of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi. He formerly served as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Defence and as Director of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, New Delhi. He is author of Indo-Pak Nuclear Stand-off: The Role of the United States (1995), and co-author of Brasstacks and Beyond: Perception and Management of Crisis (1995) and Nuclear Non-Proliferation in India and Pakistan: South Asian Perspectives (1996). Virendra Singh Jafa (India) was formerly Secretary of Defence Finance in the Min- istry of Defence. He has also served as Chairman of the Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices, as Adviser in Public Administration in the West Indies under the United Nations Development Programme and as Chairman of the Finance Commission of the Union Territories. Prem Shankar Jha (India), an economist, is Economic Editor of The Hindu. He formerly served as Press and Information Adviser in the Prime Minister’s Office. Dharam Vir Kalra (India), Lieutenant-General, is a consultant in logistics and mater- ial management. He formerly served as Director-General Ordnance Services and Major-General Operational Logistics at one of the Indian military Command Head- quarters. He is author of ‘Logistics: the lifeline of the army’, Indian Defence Review, no. 4 (1993) and ‘Ammunition logistics: in search of identity’, Indian Defence Review, no. 1 (1994). Veena Ravi Kumar (India) is Head of the Department of Political Science at Lady Sriram College, New Delhi. She is author of Indian Foreign Policy: Nuclear Politics (forthcoming). Pulipra Kuttickat Kumaran (India) was formerly Director-General of the Defence Estates in the Ministry of Defence. He has dealt with administration of real estate, human resource development in the Indian Army and Air Force, procurement of weapons and equipment for the Indian Air Force, production planning and corporate restructuring of the Ordnance Factories. Krishnan Parameswaran Nayar (India) is Diplomatic Editor of The Telegraph, New Delhi. He previously held the same position at the Business Standard, the Economic Times and the Indian Express, all in New Delhi, and has been a Visiting Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 309 M. N. Panini (India) is a sociologist and Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Samir K. Sen (India), Air Vice-Marshal, was formerly the Director of India’s Ter- minal Ballistics Research Laboratory. He is now visiting lecturer and analyst of inter- national security and technology issues. While serving in the Indian Air Force and the Department of Defence R&D of the Ministry of Defence, he was involved in the for- mulation of weapon and equipment plans and in the management of weapon develop- ment and acquisition programmes of the armed forces. He has published extensively in journals in India and the USA. Alexander A. Sergounin (Russia) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. He is author and co-author (with Sergey Subbotin) of two chapters in the SIPRI volume Russia and the Arms Trade (1998) and of ‘Indo-Russian military cooperation: Russian perspectives’, Asian Profile (Feb. 1996). Jaswant Singh (India) is a member of the Indian Parliament representing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and serves as Deputy Chairman of the National Planning Commission. He formerly served as Minister of Finance and has been chairman of several prestigious committees of the Indian Parliament. He is author of National Security: An Outline of our Concerns (1996) and Defending India (forthcoming, 1998). Ravinder Pal Singh (India) is Leader of the SIPRI Arms Procurement Decision Mak- ing Project. He was formerly a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, New Delhi, where he worked on issues relating to technology export controls and conventional arms transfers. As a Ford Fellow at the University of Maryland, he examined US foreign policy processes in developing the MTCR. His most recent pub- lications include a chapter on accountability in arms procurement policies in Develop- ing Arms Transparency: The Future of the United Nations Register (1997) and a chapter in the UNIDIR publication The Transfer of Sensitive Technologies and the Future of Control Regimes (1997). Sergey V. Subbotin (Russia) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Univer- sity of Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. He is co-author (with Alexander Sergounin) of a chapter in the SIPRI volume Russia and the Arms Trade (1998) and of ‘Indo-Russian military cooperation: Russian perspectives’, Asian Profile (Feb. 1996).

Israel

Ze’ev B. Begin (Israel) has been a Member of the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) since 1988. He is a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and has formerly served as Minister of Science and Technology and as Chairman of the Knesset Subcommittee for National Security Policy. Zeev Bonen (Israel) was formerly President of Rafael, the armament development authority of the Israeli Ministry of Defense. He has taken part in the development of weapons and has published several reports on weapon development and the evolution of battlefield systems. He is now Senior Associate at the Begin–Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University. 310 AR MS P R OC UR EMENT DEC IS ION MAKING Dan Halperin (Israel) was, when he retired from government service, Minister of Economic Affairs at the Embassy of Israel, Washington, DC. He was previously a government official in the Ministry of Finance and Deputy Director-General of the Treasury for International Affairs. He is now managing director of a consulting firm dealing with international trade and investment. Yaacov Lifshitz (Israel) is presently Chairman of the Board of the arms manufacturing company Ta’as (formerly IMI). He formerly served as Director-General in the Ministry of Finance and as Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Defense. He has held several senior managerial assignments in the private industrial and financial sectors, and lectured for several years on defence economics at the Ben-Gurion University. Menachem M. Meron (Israel), Major-General, was formerly Director-General in the Ministry of Defense where he dealt with supervision of the defence industry, defence R&D and arms procurement. He has also served in the Israeli Defense Forces and as Defense and Armed Forces Attaché at the Embassy of Israel, Washington, DC. He is now general manager of a consulting firm dealing with international trade and invest- ment. Dan Naaman (Israel) was formerly a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Technological Analysis and Forecasting at Tel-Aviv University working on defence matters, national infrastructures and economics. He has also served in the Israeli Defense Forces as Lieutenant-Colonel. Presently he is a consultant to the Israeli Min- istry of Defense. Moshe Ortasse (Israel) was formerly Vice-President of Israel Aircraft Industries, General Manager of the Electronics Group and Chairman of the Association of Elec- tronics Industries. Reuven Pedatzur (Israel) is Director of the Galili Center for Strategy and National Security. He has also worked as a journalist, specializing in defence and security issues. His publications include Rearming Israel: Defence Procurement through the 1990s, with co-author Aharon Klieman (1991), ‘Coming back full circle: the Pales- tinian option in 1967’, Middle East Journal, no. 2 (1995) and The Triumph of Embar- rassment: Israel and the Territories, 1967–1969 (1996). Alon Pinkas (Israel) is Foreign Policy Adviser to the Chairman of the Labour Party, Ehud Barak. He formerly served as Policy Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shimon Perez, and has been a journalist at the Jerusalem Post and Davar, specializing in defence and security issues. Yair Sharan (Israel), a physicist, is Deputy Director and Senior Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Technological Analysis and Forecasting at Tel-Aviv University. He is Colonel (in reserve) of the Israeli Defense Forces and has served in the Research and Development Division of the Ministry of Defense, specializing in technology assessment and systems analysis. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 311 Gerald M. Steinberg (Israel) is Professor of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University, where he heads the Middle East Arms Control and Proliferation Project of the BESA Center for Strategic Studies. He also participates in the ‘Track Two’ multilateral dis- cussions on Arms Control and Regional Security and in the Mediterranean Seminars of the OSCE. He has previously been a Research Fellow at the United States Institute for Peace. He has published an analysis of the relations between the Middle East peace process and NPT extension in Non-Proliferation Review (fall 1996) and is currently completing a study of the dual-use aspects of commercial imaging satellites. Zvi Tropp (Israel) is Vice-President of Finance and Business Development at a private company in Israel. He formerly served as Chief Economic Adviser at the Ministry of Defense. Aviezer Ya’ari (Israel) is Deputy Director-General and Head of the Defense and Security Department at the State Comptroller’s Office. He is Major-General (in reserve) in the Israeli Defense Forces.

Japan

Yasukazu Hamada (Japan) is a Member of Parliament, representing the Liberal Democratic Party in the House of Representatives. He is Director of the Standing Committee on Security, the Standing Committee on Audit, and the Special Committee on Okinawa and Northern Problems in the House of Representatives. Masako Ikegami-Andersson (Japan) is a researcher at the Center for Pacific Asia Studies at Stockholm University and at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, both in Sweden. She conducts research on regional security in Asia–Pacific and on US–Japanese cooperation in military R&D. She is author of The Military–Industrial Complex: The Cases of Sweden and Japan (1992) and ‘Japan: a latent but large supplier of dual-use technology’, in H. Wulf (ed.), Arms Industry Limited (1993) as well as publications in Japanese on various security issues. Hisao Iwashima (Japan) was formerly Director of War History Research at the National Institute of Defense Research at the Japan Defense Agency. He is now Vice- President of Allen International Jr. College and conducts research on regional security and arms control issues in Asia–Pacific. Shinichi Kamata (Japan) is Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Management at the School of Social Sciences at the National Defense Academy. He has been a visit- ing scholar at Stanford University. Munekazu Matsumoto (Japan) is Director-General of the Japan Defense Facilities Administration Agency at the Japan Defence Agency. He was formerly responsible for defence procurement as Director of the Central Procurement Office. Naohiko Oshima (Japan) is a Research Associate at the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) and a member of the Defense Production Committee. He formerly served as Director of the Fuchu Detachment of the Central Procurement Office, Tokyo district. 312 AR MS P R OC UR EMENT DEC IS ION MAKING Toshiyuki Shikata (Japan), Lieutenant-General, is Professor at the Department of International Studies at Teikyo University. He formerly served in the armed forces and was, when he retired, Commanding General of the Northern Army Corps. Teruo Suzuki (Japan) is Chairman of the Defense Technology Foundation. He has formerly served as Vice-President of Marine United Inc., Tokyo, and as Director- General of the Technical R&D Institute at the Japan Defense Agency. He holds a seat in the Board of Directors of the Defense Research Center. Shunji Taoka (Japan) is Senior Staff Writer of Military Affairs for Asahi Shimbun. He is co-author (with Richard Fieldhouse) of the SIPRI volume Superpowers at Sea: An Assessment of the Naval Arms Race (1989).

South Korea

Chin Soo Bae () is Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Military Studies, . His research focus is on international disputes, crises, war and analysis of North–South Korean military events. His recent publications include [Measuring hostility on the Korean peninsula: event–data analysis] (1996, in Korean) and [A scenario of the Tok-to Island territorial dispute between Korea and Japan] (1997, in Korean). Noh Soon Chang (South Korea) is Senior Analyst at the Korean Overseas Information Service at the Ministry of Information working on the termination of international crises, the bargaining strategy of North and South Korea and alliance theory. He is author of [South Korea’s foreign security policy: theory and practice], Journal of Korean Political and Diplomatic History (1996, in Korean). Jong Chul Choi (South Korea) is Professor of Military and Security Studies at the Korea National Defense University, Seoul. He was formerly a member of the Com- mittee for Promotion of Internationalization at the Office of the Prime Minister and a member of the Group of Advisers at the Ministry of National Defense. He is co-author of [The Republic of Korea’s national defence towards the 21st Century] (1995, in Korean) and [International relations theory and the Korean Peninsula in a transitional period] (1996, in Korean), and author of [The ROK–US–Japanese triangular security cooperation system: yesterday, today and tomorrow] (1997, in Korean). Yong Sup Han (South Korea) is Professor of Defense Policy at the Korea National Defense University, Seoul. He formerly served as Director of International Arms Con- trol at the South Korean Arms Control Office and as Special Assistant to the Minister of National Defense. He has also been a Senior Visiting Fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research and is the author of Nuclear Disarmament and Nuclear Non-Proliferation in Northeast Asia (1995) and [North Korea’s nuclear policy decision-making process 1991–1995] (forthcoming, in Korean). Sung Bum Hong (South Korea) is Senior Research Fellow at the Science and Tech- nology Policy Institute (STEPI), Seoul. His recent publications include [Effective sys- tem building for dual-use technology development] (1993, in Korean) and [Effective technology acquisition strategy with participation in defence conversion programmes and a focus on the Russian and Chinese programmes] (1994, in Korean). ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 313 Jin Hwoan Hwang (South Korea) is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Korea , Seoul. He formerly served as a member of the Nuclear Crisis Management Team at the Ministry of National Defense. His current research is on international arms transfers, arms control and the defence industry of North Korea. He is co-author of [Today’s Korean defence] (1994, in Korean), [A study of North Korea] (1996, in Korean) and [Korean defence policy and arms control in the 21st century] (forthcoming, in Korean). Myung Kil Kang (South Korea) is Senior Researcher and Chief of the Defense Economics Research Group at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA), Seoul. His current research focus is on the defence industry, defence R&D policy, defence budget analyses and the defence procurement system and he has published widely on these issues. Chul Whan Kim (South Korea) is Professor of Defense Science at the Korea National Defense University, Seoul. He also serves as consultant to the Joint Chief of Staff and the Ministry of National Defense and he is Chairman of the Korea Institute of CALS/EC (Commerce At the Light Speed/Electronic Commerce). He has published widely in the areas of engineering, science and technology as well as weapon system acquisition and defence R&D. Tae Woo Kim (South Korea) is Senior Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Peace Studies, Seoul. He formerly served as the lead researcher of the Nuclear Study Group and as Director of Research Co-operation at KIDA, Seoul. He is author of [Why not a South Korean nuclear bomb?] (1994, in Korean) and co-editor of Dealing with the North Korean Nuclear Problem (1995). Min Yong Lee (South Korea) is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Korea Military Academy, Seoul. He has formerly been a member of the research committees of defence projects at the Ministry of National Defense. His recent publications include [The common security of the Korean peninsula] (1993, in Korean), [Today’s Korean defence] (1994, in Korean) and [A study of North Korea] (1995, in Korean). Seok Soo Lee (South Korea) is Professor of International Relations at the Korea National Defense University, Seoul. He has formerly served as Senior Research Fellow at the Kim Dae Jung Peace Foundation, Seoul, and as Research Fellow at KIDA, Seoul. He is author of Building a Multilateral Security Regime in Northeast Asia: Theory and Practice (forthcoming) and ‘The post-cold war security agenda of Korea: inertia, new thinking and assessment’, Pacific Review, vol. 8, no. 1 (1995). Jin W. Mok (South Korea) is Associate Professor of Public Administration at Kook- min University, Seoul. Byung Rok Song (South Korea) is Research Professor in Political Science at , Seoul. He formerly served as a lecturer at the Korea Military Academy, Seoul. He is author of [Military reign in South Korea: a contribution to the debate on the role of the military in the third world in a development-theoretical con- text] (1992, in German), [Civil–military relations in Korea] (1995, in Korean) and [Cooperation methods for the Asian community: national security and military affairs] (1996, in Korean). 314 AR MS P R OC UR EMENT DEC IS ION MAKING Thailand

Chaiwat Satha-Anand (Thailand) is Associate Professor in Political Science and Dir- ector of the Peace Information Centre, Foundation for Democracy and Development Studies at Thammasat University, Bangkok. His most recent publications include [Non-violence and Islam] (1997, in Italian) and, as co-editor, The Frontiers of Non- violence (1998). Chumphol Sirinavin (Thailand), Captain of the Royal Thai Navy, is Deputy Director- General of the Naval Research and Development Office, Bangkok. He has previously served as Deputy Director-General of the Naval Strategic Studies Centre at the Insti- tute of Advanced Naval Studies, Nakorn Pathom. Panitan Wattanayagorn (Thailand) is a Researcher at the Department of International Relations and was formerly Director of the Defence Studies Programme at the Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He is presently on leave from the university to work as an adviser to the Minister of Defence. He has published extensively on arms production and arms transfers in South-East Asia, including as co-author of a chapter in the SIPRI volume Arms, Trans- parency and Security in South-East Asia (1997) and as author of a chapter in Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences (1998). Suntaree Komin (Thailand) is Associate Professor at the School of Administrative Technology at the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), Bangkok. She is a social and cross-cultural psychologist and a member of two research committees at the National Research Council of Thailand. She has published exten- sively on Thai social and cultural values and behavioural systems. Supaluck Suvarnajata (Thailand), Colonel, serves at the Military Academy of the Royal Thai Army, Nakorn-Nayok. Surasak Banjukeaw (Thailand), Colonel, is Deputy Chief of the Research and Devel- opment Division at the Strategic Research Institute of the National Defence Studies Institute, Bangkok.