Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies

Visiting Fellows 1998-2012

2011-2012 | 2010-2011 | 2009-2010 | 2008-2009 | 2007-2008 | 2006-2007 | 2005-2006
2004-2005 | 2003-2004 | 2001-2002 | 2000-2001 | 1999-2000 | 1998-1999

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2011-2012

Sang-Yoon MA | Korea
Current Position: Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Catholic University of Korea

Yun SUN | China
Current Position: Visiting Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center, Africa Global Initiative, The Brookings Institution
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Chinese National Security Decision-making: Processes and Challenges"

  Yuka UCHIDA | Japan
2010-2011
Nelson CHENG | Hong Kong
Current Position: Deputy District Commander, Eastern District, Hong Kong Police Force (HKP)
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The Effectiveness of Money Laundering Investigations in Fighting Transnational Crime: A Comparison of the United States and Hong Kong"
Munkh-Ochir DORJJUGDER | Mongolia
Current Position: Director, Institute for Defense Studies, National Defense University, Mongolia
Chang-Ryung HAN | Korea
Current Position: Senior Deputy Director, Planning and Budget Division, Korea Customs Service
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Is the Immigration of Korean Sex Workers to the United States Sex Trafficking or Migrant Smuggling?"
Tadaatsu MOHRI | Japan
Current Position: Professor of International Law, Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University; Counselor, Embassy of Japan in the United States
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: “The Japan-Russia Border and Stability in Northeast Asia: Toward a Pragmatic Approach to Territorial Disputes”
Haimei SHEN | China
Current Position: Professor, Anthropological Research Institute, Yunnan University; Professor, Center for Drug & AIDS Prevention Research, Yunnan University

Tuan Minh TA | Vietnam
Current Position: Associate Professor, Head of Office for Research Projects Management, and Deputy Director, Center for Foreign Policy and Regional Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam

Sandy Yeh | Taiwan
Current Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Foreign Affairs Police, Central Police University, Taiwan
Yong-an ZHANG | China
Current Position: Associate Professor, Shanghai University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Asia, International Drug Trafficking, and U.S.-China Counternarcotics Cooperation"

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2009-2010

Rongxing GUO | China
Current Position: Professor, Head of Regional Economics Committee, Regional Science Association of China, Peking University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: “Territorial Disputes and Seabed Petroleum Exploitation: Some Options for the East China Sea” 
Scholar Portrait Shoichi ITOH | Japan
Current Position: Senior Researcher, International Strategy Analysis Group, Strategy and Industry Research Unit, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The U.S.-Japan Alliance and China’s Engagement on Energy Security: New Challenges and Opportunities"
Hai Tien LE | Vietnam
Current Position: Director, Research Centre for Petroleum Economics and Management, Vietnam Petroleum Institute, Petrovietnam Group
CNAPS Working Paper Topic:  “Policy Suggestions for the Initial Development of Vietnam's Gas Industry” 
Scholar Portrait Seongho SHEEN | Korea
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Director of the International Cooperation Office, Seoul National University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Nuclear Sovereignty versus Nuclear Security: Renewing the ROK-U.S. Atomic Energy Agreement"
Simon SHEN | Hong Kong
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Institute of Education; Adjunct Associate Professor, Coordinator, Master of Global Political Economy Programme, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Founding Chairman, Global Studies Institute in Hong Kong; Director, International Relations Research Center, Hong Kong Policy Research Institute
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: “Sino-U.S.-Russian Energy Competition in Central Asia: From Energy Diplomacy to Ideologized Energy Diplomacy”
Yuan Ming Alvin YAO | Taiwan
Current Position: Director of Research, the Prospect Foundation; Adjunct Research Associate, the MacArthur Center for Security Studies
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: “Consolidating Cooperation by Mitigating Security Dilemmas: Prospects for Energy Cooperation across the Taiwan Strait”
Scholar Portrait Jian ZHANG | China
Current Position: Consultant, The World Bank; POSCO Fellow, East West Center, Honolulu, HI
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "China’s Energy Security: Prospects, Challenges, and Opportunities"

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2008-2009

Scholar Portrait Keiko IIZUKA | Japan
Current Position: Senior Writer, The Yomiuri Shimbun
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The Politics of U.S. Policy toward Japan in the New Administration, 2009"


Scholar Portrait Linbo JIN | China
Current Position: Senior research fellow, China Institute for International Studies
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The History Issue in China-Japan Relations and Its Relevance to the United States"


Scholar Portrait Shih-Chung LIU | Taiwan
Current Position: Research fellow, Taiwan Brain Trust
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Convergence and Divergence in Taiwan's U.S. Policy, 2004-2008: Analysis and Recommendations"


Scholar Portrait Sun-won PARK | Korea
Current Position: Adjunct professor, Yonsei University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "How the U.S.-ROK Alliance Worked under the Bush and Roh Governments, 2003-2007"


Scholar Portrait Hao ZHENG | Hong Kong
Current Position: Deputy director of current affairs and specials, Phoenix Satellite Television
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "International Security Relations in Central Asia"

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2007-2008

Scholar Portrait Richard Weixing HU | Hong Kong
Current Position: Faculty of University of Hong Kong
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "China, the United States, and Future East Asian Regionalism: Managing the Changing Balance of Influence"


Scholar Portrait Ching-Lung HUANG | Taiwan
Current Position: President of Want-Want Daily
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The Changing Role of the Media in Taiwan's Democratization Process"


Scholar Portrait Akihiro IWASHITA | Japan
Current Position: Director of the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "New Geopolitics and Rediscovery of the U.S.-Japan Alliance: Reshaping 'Northeast Asia Beyond the Border"


Scholar Portrait Haeran LIM | Korea
Current Position: Faculty of the department of Political Science at Seoul National University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Democratization and Transformation Processes in East Asian Developmental States"


Scholar Portrait Zhongying PANG | China
Current Position: Professor at Renmin University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The Six Party Talks, Regional Security Mechanisms, and China-U.S. Cooperation"


Scholar Portrait Georgy TOLORAYA | Russia
Current Position: IMEMO (Institute of World Economy and International Relations)
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Continuity and Change in Korea: Challenges for Regional and U.S.-Russia Policy Coordination"

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2006-2007

Scholar Portrait Hyeong Jung PARK | Korea
Current Position: Senior Research Fellow, the Korea Institute for National Unification
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Looking Back and Looking Forward: North Korea, Northeast Asia and the ROK-U.S. Alliance"


Scholar Portrait Masahiro MATSUMURA | Japan
Current Position: Professor of International Politics on the Faculty of Law and Political Science, St. Andrew’s University in Osaka
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The Japanese State Identity as a Grand-Strategic Imperative"


Scholar Portrait Rikkie YEUNG | Hong Kong
Current Position: Director of SynergyNet, Director of Y M Yeung Consulting Limited, Director of Computancy Limited
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Digital Democracy: How American and Hong Kong Civil Societies Use New Media to Change Politics"


Scholar Portrait Fu-Kuo LIU | Taiwan
Current Position: Associate Research Fellow and Adjunct Associate Professor, National Chengchi University’s Institute of International Relations
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Asian Regionalism and Implications for Cross-Strait Relations”


Scholar Portrait CHU Shulong | China
Current Position: Professor and the Deputy Director, Institute of International and Strategic Development Studies for the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "A Stable Structure for U.S.-China-Japan Trilateral Relations"

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2005-2006

Scholar Portrait LIM Wonhyuk | Korea | WLim@KDI.re.kr
Current Position: Director of the Overseas Development Office, Korea Development Institute
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Regional Multilateralism in Asia and the Korean Question"


Scholar Portrait Toshihiro NAKAYAMA | Japan | toshinak@tsuda.ac.jp
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of International and Cultural Studies, Tsuda College
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Politics of U.S. Policy Toward China: Analysis of Domestic Factors"


Scholar Portrait James TANG | Hong Kong | Jthtang@hku.hk
Current Position: Professor of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "With the Grain or Against the Grain? Energy Security and Chinese Foreign Policy in the Hu Era"


Scholar Portrait Alexander VORONTSOV | Russia | Vorontsovav@yandex.ru
Current Position: Professor and Head of the Department of Korean and Mongolian Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russia Academy of Sciences
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Russia-North Korea Relations: Challenges and Achievements"


Scholar Portrait Yuan-Kang WANG | Taiwan | YKWang1@gmail.com
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Public Affairs and Administration, Western Michigan University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "China's Grand Strategy and U.S. Primacy: Is China Balancing American Power?"


Scholar Portrait YANG Bojiang | China | BYangCICIR@yahoo.com
Current Position: Professor and Director, Institute of Japanese Studies, Chinese Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Constructing a Liaison Organization for a Six-Party Talks Outcome"

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2004-2005

Scholar Portrait Quan JING | China
Current Position: Officer, Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Washington, DC
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Crisis Management Between China and the United States"


Scholar Portrait LIU Shyh-Fang | Taiwan | shfaliu@yahoo.com.tw
Current Position: Managing Director, Kaohsiung Organizing Committee, 2009 World Games
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The Consolidation of Democracy in Taiwan"


Scholar Portrait Kunyoung PARK | Korea | thatsgreatkun@yahoo.co.kr
Current Position: Professor, School of International Studies, The Catholic University of Korea
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "A New U.S.-ROK Alliance: A Nine-Point Policy Recommendation for a Reflective and Mature Partnership"


Scholar Portrait Tomohiko TANIGUCHI | Japan
Current Position: Adjunct Professor, Keio University, Graduate School of System Design and Management; Resident Senior Advisor, Board of JR-Central, The Shinkansen
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Whither Japan? New Constitution and Defense Buildup"


Scholar Portrait ZHU Wenhui | Hong Kong
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The Future of Hong Kong's Economy and Its Interaction with the Chinese Mainland"


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2003-2004

Scholar Portrait Alexei BOGATUROV | Russia | alebog2003@hotmail.com
Current Position: Professor of International Politics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "International Relations in Central-Eastern Asia: Geopolitical Challenges and Prospects for Political Cooperation"


Scholar Portrait Sook-Jong LEE | Korea | skjlee@sejong.org
Current Position: Professor, Department of Public Administration, Sung Kyun Kwan University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The Transformation of South Korean Politics: Implications for U.S.-Korea Relations"


Scholar Portrait Erich Che-Wei SHIH | Taiwan | erichshih@yahoo.com
Current Position: News Anchor of "CTI World News" and Host of "Insight Edition", CTITV 
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The Conduct of U.S.-Taiwan Relations, 2000-2004"


Scholar Portrait Hideki YAMAJI | Japan | hideki.yamaji@mofa.go.jp
Current Position: Principal Deputy Director, Second Division, Intelligence and Analysis Service, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Policy Recommendations for Japan: Unification of the Korean Peninsula"


Scholar Portrait Peng YUAN | China | yuan_peng@hotmail.com
Current Position: Deputy Director and Associate Professor, American Studies Center, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The Taiwan Question in the Context of Sino-U.S. Counterterrorism Cooperation"


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2002-2003

Scholar Portrait Jae Ho CHUNG | KOREA | cjhir@snu.ac.kr
Current Position: Professor and Chair of the Department of International Relations and Head of the Center for International Studies' China Area Program (CIS-CAP), Seoul National University; Non-resident Fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis (KIDA); Coordinator for the Federation of Korean Industries' China Forum
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "How America Views South Korea-China Bilateralism"


Scholar Portrait Joyce Juo-Yu LIN | Taiwan
Current Position: Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Tamkang University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The China-ASEAN Free Trade Area: 'ASEAN + 1' and its Impact on U.S. Strategic Interests in East Asia"


Scholar Portrait Tamotsu NAKANO | JAPAN | tomokontomoko@msn.com
Current Position: Chief Researcher, KRI International; Visiting Scholar, The American University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Cooperative Security and Economic Integration in Northeast Asia"


Scholar Portrait Wilson WONG | Hong Kong | wwong@cuhk.edu.hk
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Government and Public Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "From A British-Style Administrative State to Chinese-Style Political State: Civil Service Reforms in Hong Kong after the Transfer or Sovereignty"


Scholar Portrait Ye ZHANG | China | Email: zhangye@asiafound.org.cn
Current Position: China Country Director, The Asia Foundation, Beijing
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Governance and Civil Society in China"


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2001-2002

Scholar Portrait Gerard Shih-Hsiung CHOW | Taiwan | chosiung@nsysu.edu.tw
Current Position: Dean, College for Humanities and Social Science, National Kaohsiung University for Applied Science
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Taiwan's 2000-2001 Political Elections and Cross-Stait Relations"


Scholar Portrait Qingguo JIA | China | jiaqg@pku.edu.cn
Current Position: Associate Dean and Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The Impact of 9-11 on Sino-U.S. Relations: A Preliminary Assessment"


Scholar Portrait Kyongsoo LHO | Korea
Current Position: Dean of International Affairs, Seoul National University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The Republic of Korea and the United States Alliance at Fifty"


Scholar Portrait Naoko MUNAKATA | Japan
Current Position: Counselor, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Government of Japan
CNAPS Working Paper Topics: "Whither East Asian Economic Integration?" and "Evolution of Japan's Policy Toward Economic Integration"


Scholar Portrait Anna V. SHKUROPAT | Russia
Current Position: Visiting Scholar, Institute of European and Russian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "New Dynamics in Northeast Asia: The Russia Factor"


Scholar Portrait Ray Kim Man Yep | Hong Kong | sarkmyep@cityu.edu.hk
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong; Research Director, SynergyNet
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Maintaining Stability in Rural China: Challenges and Responses"

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2000-2001

Scholar Portrait Hao CHEN | Taiwan
Current Position: Executive Vice President, News Department, Eastern Broadcasting Co. Ltd.
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Can Integration Sell? An Observation of How Taiwanese Leaders Think About the Future of Cross-Strait Relations"


Scholar Portrait Chungsoo KIM | Korea
Current Position: Director, JoongAng
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Perceptions on Free Trade: The Korean Debate over the Japan-Korea Free Trade Agreement"


Scholar Portrait Xiaoping LI | China | lixiaoping@cctv.com or xiaopingli_20@yahoo.com
Current Position: Executive Producer, Assignment Desk, CCTV International, China Central Television (CCTV),China; Research Associate, Center for International Communications Studies of Tsinghua University, China
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Significant Changes in the Chinese Television Industry and Their Impact in the PRC"


Scholar Portrait Alexander LUKIN | Russia
Current Position: Director, Center for East Asian Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Russia's Image of China and Russian-Chinese Relations"


Scholar Portrait Kazuo SATO | Japan
Current Position: Correspondent, Asahi Shimbun
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The Japan-China Summit and Joint Declaration of 1998: A Watershed for Japan-China Relations in the 21st Century"


Scholar Portrait Chris YEUNG | Hong Kong
Current Position: Editor-at-Large, South China Morning Post
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Hong Kong Under 'One Country, Two Systems': Promises and Realities"

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1999-2000

Scholar Portrait Ok-Nim CHUNG | Korea | ochung@sunmoon.ac.kr or onchung@hotmail.com
Current Position: Member of the South Korean National Assembly
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Solving the Security Puzzle in Northeast Asia: A Multilateral Security Regime"


Scholar Portrait C.H. KWAN | Hong Kong | s-kan@nicmr.com
Current Position: Senior Fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), Tokyo, Japan
CNAPS Working Paper Topics: "Revitalizing the Japanese Economy" and ""Sayonara Dollar Peg: Asia in Search of a New Exchange Rate Regime


Scholar Portrait Alexandre MANSOUROV | Russia
Current Position: Associate Professor of Security Studies, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Enigma of the Land of Morning Calm: Korean Shrimp or Roaring Tiger?"


Scholar Portrait Kiyoshi SUGAWA | Japan | sugawa@dpj.or.jp
Current Position: Senior Policy Advisor, Policy Research Committee, Democratic Party of Japan
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Time to Pop the Cork: Three Scenarios to Refine Japanese Use of Force"


Scholar Portrait Xinbo WU | China
Current Position: Professor, Center for American Studies, and Associate Dean, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "U.S. Security Policy in Asia: Implications for China-U.S. Relations"


Scholar Portrait I YUAN | Taiwan | yyuan@nccu.edu.tw
Current Position: Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Confidence-Building Across the Taiwan Strait"


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1998-1999

Scholar Portrait Alexander Chieh-Cheng HUANG | Taiwan | ahuang@csis.org or sinostrategy@hotmail.com
Current Position: Professor and Director, Graduate Institute of American Studies, Tamkang University; Senior Vice President, Foundation on International and Cross-strait Studies (FICS)
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Taiwan's Defense Modernization for the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities"


Scholar Portrait Masaharu KOHNO | Japan | masaharu.kohno@mofa.go.jp
Current Position: Japanese Ambassador to the Russia Federation
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "In Search of Proactive Diplomacy: Increasing Japan's International Role in the 1990s"


Scholar Portrait Guoqiang LONG | China | longgq@drc.gov.cn
Current Position: Deputy Director General, Foreign Economic Relations Department, The Development Research Center of the State Council
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Will China Liberalize Its Grain Trade?"


Scholar Portrait Se-Il PARK | Korea | sipark@snu.ac.kr
Current Position: Professor of Law and Economics, Seoul National University; former member of ROK National Assembly
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "The Labor Market Policy and Social Safety Net in Korea: After the 1997 Crisis"


Scholar Portrait Masabumi SUZUKI | Japan | msuzuki@nomolog.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Current Position: Professor, School of Law, Nagoya University
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "Toward Constructive International Trade Dispute Resolution: Lessons from Recent U.S.-Japan Disputes on Restrictive Practices"


Scholar Portrait Sergei TROUSH | Russia | stroush@online.ru
Current Position: Senior Research Fellow, Russian Academy of Sciences
CNAPS Working Paper Topic: "China's Changing Oil Strategy and its Foreign Policy Implications"

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