Biographies of Participants Five University Collaboration on East Asia Security Conflict & Cooperation Princeton University December 12-13, 2014
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Biographies of Participants Five University Collaboration on East Asia Security Conflict & Cooperation Princeton University December 12-13, 2014 Thomas Berger is Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University. Previously, he taught for seven years at the Johns Hopkins Department of Political Science in Baltimore. He is the author of War, Guilt and World Politics After World War II, Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan and is co-editor of Japan in International Politics: Beyond the Reactive State. His articles and essays have appeared in numerous edited volumes and journals, including International Security, Review of International Studies, German Politics and World Affairs Quarterly. Kurt M. Campbell is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Asia Group, LLC, a strategic advisory and investment group specializing in the dynamic and fast growing Asia Pacific region. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of the Center for a New American Security and writes a regular column and book reviews for the Financial Times of London. He is on the Board of Directors for Standard Chartered PLC in London. Dr. Campbell is a Member of the Advisory Board of the UC San Diego School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, a Member of the Advisory Board of the Association of Marshall Scholars, a member of the Statecraft Board of the Clements Center for History, Strategy, and Statecraft at the University of Texas at Austin, a senior advisor to the 100,000 Strong Foundation, and on the Board of Directors at the National Committee on United States-China Relations. He is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and the Trilateral Commission. In addition, he is writing a book about his experiences in the Obama Administration working on Asia, tentatively entitled The Pivot: America’s Rediscovery of the Asia-Pacific Century. From 2009 to 2013, he served as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, where he is widely credited as being a key architect of the “pivot to Asia.” In this capacity, Dr. Campbell advanced a comprehensive U.S. strategy that took him to every corner of the Asia-Pacific region where he was a tireless advocate for American interests, particularly the promotion of trade and investment. His vision and leadership were essential in the Administration’s efforts to strengthen security alliances and partnerships from Northeast to Southeast Asia and throughout the Indo-Pacific region. Dr. Campbell was a key figure in managing the U.S.-China relationship, overseeing the annual Strategic and Economic Dialogue, helping usher in a new era of robust U.S. engagement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, through the Lower Mekong Initiative and the East Asia Summit, and advocating for deeper American economic engagement and commercial ties in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings. Dr. Campbell helped spearhead President Obama’s and Secretary Clinton’s initial diplomatic outreach to Burma that led to the historic normalization of bilateral ties between the United States and Myanmar. In acknowledgement for his contributions in advancing U.S. national interests in Asia, Secretary Clinton awarded him the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award (2013) — the nation’s highest diplomatic honor. He was recognized in the Queen’s New Year’s list of honors as an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia and as an Honorary Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2014 for his work in support of American relations with Australia and New Zealand respectively. He was also awarded the Gwanghwa Medal by the Republic of Korea in 2014 for his contributions to the U.S.-South Korea bilateral alliance. Previously, he was the CEO and Co-Founder of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and concurrently served as the director of the Aspen Strategy Group and Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Washington Quarterly. He was the founder and Chairman of StratAsia from 2004 to 2009, a strategic advisory firm focused on Asia with nearly two dozen clients in the fields of financial services, defense, aerospace, food, manufacturing, and retail. He was the Senior Vice President, director of the International Security Program, and Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He was also Associate Professor of public policy and international relations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and assistant director of the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He was the Vice Chairman of the Pentagon Memorial Fund that successfully built the national memorial at the base of the Pentagon in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Dr. Campbell previously served in several capacities in government, including as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asia and the Pacific, director on the National Security Council Staff, deputy special counselor to the president for NAFTA in the White House, and White House fellow at the Department of the Treasury. He was concurrently an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserves, serving on surface ships, on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in the Chief of Naval Operations Special Strategic Advisory Unit. For his service, he received Georgetown University’s Asia Service Award, the State Department Honor Award, and the Department of Defense Medals for Distinguished Public Service and for Outstanding Public Service. He is the co-author with Jim Steinberg of Difficult Transitions: Why Presidents Fail in Foreign Policy at the Outset of Power, with Michele Flournoy of To Prevail: An American Strategy for the Campaign against Terrorism, with Michael O’Hanlon of Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security, and he co-authored with Nirav Patel The Power of Balance: America in Asia. He is the editor of Climatic Cataclysm: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Climate Change, and The Nuclear Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices with Robert Einhorn and Mitchell Reiss. Dr. Campbell was a contributing writer to The New York Times from 2000 to 2004 and is the author of over a hundred academic articles and newspaper pieces. He received his B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, a Certificate in music and political philosophy from the University of Erevan in Soviet Armenia, and his Doctorate in International Relations from Brasenose College at Oxford University where he was a Distinguished Marshall Scholar. Ja Ian Chong is assistant professor of political science and an associate research fellow with the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore. He previously worked with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. and the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore, and was a Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program fellow. Dr. Chong’s work crosses the fields of international relations and comparative politics, with a focus on security issues relating to China and East Asia. His work appears in a number of journals, edited volumes, and newspapers, including the China Quarterly, The European Journal of International Relations, International Security and Security Studies. Dr. Chong is author of External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation: China, Thailand, Indonesia – 1893- 1952, Cambridge University Press, 2012, winner of the 2014 Best Book Award from the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association. Thomas J. Christensen is the William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War and Director of the China and the World Program at Princeton University. From 2006-2008 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs with responsibility for relations with China, Taiwan, and Mongolia. His research and teaching focus on China’s foreign relations, the international relations of East Asia, and international security. Zack Cooper is a doctoral candidate in security studies at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School focusing on how states alter their militaries in response to changes in relative power. Mr. Cooper is also affiliated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Mr. Cooper previously worked as a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. During his government service, he was on the White House staff as assistant to the deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism. He also worked as a civil servant in the Pentagon, first as a foreign affairs specialist and then as a special assistant to the principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy. Mr. Cooper received a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.P.A. from Princeton University. Christina Davis is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Her research interests include international political economy, the politics and foreign policy of Japan and the European Union, and the study of international organizations. She is the author of Food Fights Over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization (Princeton University Press, 2003), and Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO (Princeton University Press 2012). Her research has been published in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Comparative Politics, International Security, and World Politics. Ph.D. Harvard University - See more at: http://wws.princeton.edu/faculty- research/faculty/cldavis#sthash.MBHHyXOY.dpuf Xiaolin Duan is a PhD Candidate in Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, whose research interests include foreign and public policy analysis, East Asia security, and terrorism. Aaron L. Friedberg is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1987, and co-director of the Woodrow Wilson School’s Center for International Security Studies. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and a Senior Advisor to the National Bureau of Asian Research.