Contributors (Listed ALphAbetiCALLy) Vinod K. Aggarwal is a professor in the department of political Science and the Business and Public Policy group in the Haas School of Business and directs the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC), all at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1991–94, he was chairman of the Political Economy of Industrial Societies Program. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Business and Politics and co-chair of the U.S. Consortium of APEC Study Centers. Aggarwal received his BA in political science and psychology from the University of Michigan and his MA and PhD in international political economy from Stanford University. He has been a research fellow and guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, a Rockefeller Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Fellow, a visiting fellow at the East-West Center, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and founding member of the U.S. Asia Pacific Council. He has also been a visiting professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, the University of Geneva’s IOMBA program, INSEAD, and Bocconi University. Aggarwal consults regularly with multinational corporations on strategic planning, trade policy, and international negotiations. In the public sector, he has worked with the Mexican Government, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the World Trade Organization, OECD, the Group of Thirty, IFAD, the International Labor Organization, ASEAN, and the World Bank. In 1990, he was Special Adviser on Trade Negotiations to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), in connection with the GATT Uruguay Round negotiations. He has also worked with the APEC Eminent Persons Group. In 1997, he won the Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award at the Haas School of Business for PhD teaching. In 2003, he was first runner-up for the Cheit Award for MBA teaching and won first place for the MBA program in 2005. His authored books include Liberal Protectionism, International Debt Threat, Debt Games, Le Renseignement Stratégique d’Entreprise, and Une Nouvelle Approche des Phénomènes Sociaux. He has edited Institutional Designs for a Complex World, Asia-Pacific Crossroads, Winning in Asia: European Style, Winning in Asia: Japanese Style, Winning in Asia: U.S. Style, Sovereign Debt Management, European Union Trade Strategies, The Strategic Dynamics of Latin American Trade, Bilateral Trade Agreements in the Asia Pacific, and Asia’s New Institutional Architecture. Aggarwal has also published over seventy articles and book chapters on the politics of trade and finance. His current research examines comparative regionalism in Europe, North America, and Asia with a focus on implications for the international system and multinational corporations. 295 Cross Currents: regionALism And nAtionALism in northeAst AsiA Michael Armacost is the Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC). He first resided at the center between 1993 and 1995, as a Distinguished Senior Fellow and visiting professor. From 1995 to 2002, Armacost served as the president of Washington DC’s Brookings Institution, the nation’s oldest think tank and a leader in research on politics, government, international affairs, economics, and public policy. Previously, during his twenty-four–year government career, Armacost served, among other positions, as the undersecretary of state for political affairs and as the ambassador to Japan and the Philippines. Armacost began his career in academia, as a professor of government at Pomona College. In 1969 he was awarded a White House Fellowship and was assigned to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of State. Following a stint on the State Department policy planning and coordination staff, he became a special assistant to the U.S. ambassador in Tokyo from 1972–74, his first foreign diplomatic post. Thereafter, he held senior Asian affairs and international security posts in the State Department, Defense Department, and the National Security Council. From 1982 to 1984 he served as U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines and was a key force in helping the country undergo a nonviolent transition to democracy. In 1989 President George H.W. Bush tapped him to become the ambassador to Japan, considered one of the most important and sensitive U.S. diplomatic posts abroad. Armacost is the author of three books, the most recent of which, Friends or Rivals?, was published in 1996 and draws on his tenure as ambassador. He also serves on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards, including AFLAC, Applied Materials, TRW, Cargill, Carleton College, the Asia Foundation, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. Armacost graduated from Carleton College and earned his MA and PhD in public law and government from Columbia University. He has received the President’s Distinguished Service Award, the Defense Department’s Distinguished Civilian Service Award, and the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award. Paul Evans is the co-CEO and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He is on secondment from the University of British Columbia, where he is a professor in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies, co-appointed to the Liu Institute for Global Issues and the Institute of Asian Research. Evans’ previous teaching and administrative appointments include: assistant professor, associate professor, and professor, Department of Political Science, York University, 1981–97; director, University of Toronto–York University Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 1991–96; visiting professor, Asia Center, Harvard University, 1997–99; and acting director, Liu Institute for Global 296 Contributors Issues, 2004–05. He has held visiting fellowships at the Australian National University (1988), National Chengchi University (1989), Chulalongkorn University (1989), the East-West Center (1995), and the National Institute for Research Advancement in Tokyo (1999). His principal books include John Fairbank and the American Understanding of Modern China (1988); a co-edited volume, Reluctant Adversaries: Canada and the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1970 (1991); an edited volume, Studying Asia Pacific Security (1994); Beyond Boundaries: A Report on the State of Non-Official Dialogues on Peace, Security and Cooperation in South Asia (1997); and (with David Capie) The Asia-Pacific Security Lexicon (2002, 2007). Some of his recent essays are “Human Security in East Asia: In the Beginning” (Journal of East Asian Studies, June 2004); “Between Regionalism and Regionalization: Policy Networks and the Nascent East Asian Institutional Identity” (in Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region, ed. T.J. Pempel, 2005); and “Canada, Meet Global China,” International Journal (Spring 2006). Evans has served as co-chair of the Canadian Member Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific from its founding in 1993 until July 1997 and, from 1994 until June 1998, as co-chair of CSCAP’s North Pacific Working Group. He was the founding director of the Canadian Consortium on Human Security in 2001–02. A member of the International Council of the Asia Society in New York and the international advisors to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta, he also sits on the editorial boards of The Pacific Review, Pacific Affairs, and International Politics. Zhu Feng is a professor in the School of International Studies and the director of the International Security Program at Beijing University. He publishes widely on regional security issues in East Asia, the strategic dimensions of China-U.S. relations, nonproliferation, and China’s national security. In 2004, Zhu was a visiting fellow with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). In 2003, with the support of the Union of Concerned Scientists, he was a research associate at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center. In 2001, he served as a senior research fellow with the Atlantic Council. Zhu’s most recent books include International Relations Theory and East Asian Security (People’s University Press, 2007), and China’s Rise: From Theoretical and Practical Perspectives (forthcoming from Cornell University Press, co-edited with Robert S. Ross). David C. Kang is an associate professor of government, and adjunct associate professor and research director at the Center for International Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He has scholarly interests in both business- government relations and international relations, with a focus on Asia. At Tuck 297 Cross Currents: regionALism And nAtionALism in northeAst AsiA he teaches courses on doing business in Asia, and also manages teams of MBAs in the Tuck Global Consultancy Program, who conduct in-country consulting projects for multinational companies in Asia. Kang’s book Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines (2002) was named by Choice as one of the 2003 “Outstanding Academic Titles.” He is also the author of Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (co-authored with Victor Cha, 2003). He has published scholarly articles in journals such as International Organization, International Security, Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and Foreign Policy. He is a frequent radio