AUTHORS IN THIS VOLUME

PETER J. ANDERSON is a Reader in News Media and the Journalism Research Coordinator at the University of Central Lancashire. He has published a variety of books, articles and book chapters on both commu- nication and politics, including (with Geoff Ward, eds.) (2007) The Fu- ture of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, Aldershot: Ashgate; (with Anthony Weymouth) (1999) Insulting the Public? The British Press and the European Union, Harlow: Longman; (with Christopher Williams and Georg Wiessala, eds.) (2000) New Europe in Transition, London: Continuum; and (1996) The Global Politics of Power, Justice and Death, London: Routledge. He also co-edited with Georg Wiessala the Septem- ber 2007 volume of European Studies dedicated to EU-Asia relations. He taught previously at the universities of Lancaster and Southampton and runs a small consultancy on the EU, the news media and the citi- zenry. ([email protected]) DAVID ASKEW is an Associate Professor of Law in the Faculty of Asia Pacific Studies of the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan (http://www.apu.ac.jp). Together with J. S. Eades, he is Series Editor of ‘Asia Pacific Studies: Past and Present’ with Berghahn Books. David teaches various legal courses. His main research interests include Legal Theory, Human Rights, Intellectual History, and the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Amongst his recent writings is a piece on ‘Nankin Atoroshiti Kenkyû no Genjô to Dôkô – Gurôbaru na Giron no Shosô o Chûshin to shite’ (The Current Situation in and Movements in Research of the Nanjing Atrocities: An Examination of Global Perspectives) (Ritsumeikan Gengo Bunka Kenkyû, vol. 18, 2007). His latest book publications include, in addition to (with Paul Close and Xu Xin), The Beijing Olympiad: The Political Economy of a Sporting Mega-Event (Routledge, 2006 and (with Kanemaru Yûichi), Nankin (Nanjing) (Yumani Shobô, 2008), chapters in B. T. Wakabayashi ed., The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-8: Complicating the Picture (Berghahn, 2007. He is cur- rently working on an edited volume on Japan’s Jury System, 1928-1943 and various books on Nanjing, 1937-1938. ([email protected].) FRASER CAMERON is Director of the EU-Russia Centre, Senior Advisor to the European Policy Centre (EPC) and to the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS), all in Brussels. He is also Director of ECAN, an academic and think tank network linking European and Chinese researchers and scholars. He is a Visiting Professor at the Hertie School 10 EUROPEAN STUDIES of Governance in Berlin, at the Europa College in Bruges and at a num- ber of other universities in Europe, the US, Canada and Asia. A former academic and diplomat, Dr Cameron was an adviser in the European Commission for more than a decade and served at the EU’s delegation in Washington DC. Dr Cameron was Director of Studies at the European Policy Centre from 2002-2005. He is the author of several of books and articles on European and international affairs. His most recent books include ÚS Foreign Policy after the Cold War (2005) and An Introduc- tion to European Foreign Policy (2007). He is a well-known commenta- tor on international affairs and moderator of conferences and work- shops. He has extensive experience of working with the corporate world in Europe and elsewhere. ([email protected]) JENNY CLEGG is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire and course leader for the B.A. Hons Degree programme in Asia Pacific Studies in the School of Languages and International Stud- ies. She is involved in teaching modules on Asia Pacific development and international relations as well as on China and Globalisation at un- dergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her current research interests mainly focus on China’s development and its implications for the world order. Her new book China’s Global Strategy: towards a multipolar world was published by Pluto Press in January 2009. In recent years, she has also carried out research on management and ownership reforms in China’s rural enterprises, and has published her results in the form of book chapters and journal articles. Her other main publications include Fu Manchu and the ‘Yellow Peril’: the making of a racist myth (Trent- ham Press). She has a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester. ([email protected]) CARLO FILIPPINI was awarded a Professorship in Economics at Bocconi University in Milan in 1981. He is currently the director of ISESAO, a Research Centre devoted to East Asian economic and social studies. He graduated in Economics and Management at Bocconi University in 1969 and spent two years at the University of Cambridge, UK as a research student. He has visited East Asian countries many times and given short courses, seminars or contributed with papers to conferences in Universi- ties and research centres of the region, in particular Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. His research interests presently focus on regional integration and trade relations between East Asian economies and the rest of the world. In 1993–2002 he was the Director of the Master in Economics