CONTRIBUTORS (in chapter order) Dr. Rizal Sukma (Chapter 1), is currently Executive Director at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta. He is also Chairman of International Relations, Muhammadiyah Central Executive Board. He has worked extensively on Southeast Asia s Security Issues, ASEAN, Indonesia s Defence and Foreign Policy, Military Reform, Islam and Politics, and Domestic Political Changes in Indonesia. He received a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, in 1997. He has served as a member of National Committee on Strategic Defense Review at the Ministry of Defence, the Republic of Indonesia, and a member of National Drafting Committee for National Defence Bill (2000 2001) and the Armed Forces Bill (2002 2003). His publication include: Security Operations in Aceh: Goals, Consequences, and Lessons (Washington, DC: East- West Center, 2004); Islam in Indonesia s Foreign Policy (London: Routledge, 2003), and Indonesia and China: The Politics of A Troubled Relationship (London: Routledge, 1999). Muhammadiyah;... Dr. Tang Siew Mun (Chapter 2) is Acting Director of the Bureau of Foreign Policy and International Security at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia. He is also concurrently Senior Lecturer at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. His primary research interest is East Asia security and Japan s foreign relations. He holds a Ph.D. (2004) from Arizona State University in Political Science. He is a member of the International Studies Association and the Malaysian Social Science Association (PSSM). He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Malaysian Japanese Studies Association. Additionally, he is regular guest speaker at the Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations and the National Security Council. He has contributed to numerous book chapters, in addition to national and international journals. Most recently, his article Punching Above its Weight: Malaysia s Foreign Policy was published in Global Asia, September, 2009. Dr. Noel M. Morada (Chapter 3) is Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy of the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City. He was Chair of the Department of Political Science (2003 2007), College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman. His areas of specialization include Southeast Asian security, Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia, and ASEAN relations with China, Japan, and
176 Asia Pacific Countries Security Outlook and Its Implications for the Defense Sector the U.S. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois, USA in 2002 (under a Fulbright scholarship). He is also Director of the Philippines Programme of the Asia Pacific Centre for Responsibility to Protect (R2P), based in the University of Queensland in Australia. His recent publications include: Cooperative Security in the Asia Pacific: The ASEAN Regional Forum, co-editor with Jurgen Haacke (London: Routledge, 2010); The Philippines in Rodolfo C. Severino, Elspeth Thomson and Mark Hong (ed.), Southeast Asia in a New Era: Ten Countries, One Region in ASEAN, (Singapore: ISEAS, October 2009), etc. Dr. Lam Peng Er (Chapter 4) is a Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore and then of a Visiting Fellow at NIDS. He obtained his PhD from Columbia University. His latest book is titled Japan s Peace-building Diplomacy in Asia: Seeking a more active political role (New York and London: Routledge, 2009). Dr. Sandra Tarte (Chapter 5) is Associate Professor and head of the Politics and International Affairs Program, School of Government, Development and International Affairs, at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji. She was previously head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of the South Pacific. She specializes in the international affairs of the Pacific island region, with a focus on the politics of regional diplomacy. Originally from Fiji, she was educated at the University of Melbourne, Australian National University and University of Tokyo. Her recent publications include: Fiji s Look North Policy and the Role of China, in Terence Wesley-Smith and Edgar A. Porter (ed.), China and Oceania: Towards a New Regional Order (Oxford and New York: Bergahn Books, Forthcoming); Reflections on Fiji s Coup Culture, in Jon Fraenkel, Stewart Firth and Brij V. Lal (ed.) The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji: A Coup to End all Coups?, (Canberra: ANU E Press, 2009), etc. Dr. Thitinan Pongsudhirak (Chapter 6) is Director of the Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS) and Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University.He has authored a host of articles, books and book chapters on Thailand s politics, political economy, foreign policy, and media as well as ASEAN and East Asian security and economic cooperation. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics where his work on the political economy of the 1997 Thai economic
Contributors 177 crisis was awarded the United Kingdom s Lord Bryce Prize for Best Dissertation in Comparative and International Politics, currently the only Asian recipient of this award. His publications include: Between Continuity and Change: Thailand s Topsy- Turvy Foreign Policy Directions in Global Asia, October December 2009; The Search for A New Consensus in Journal of International Security Affairs, Fall 2009; The Tragedy of the 1997 Constitution in John Funston (ed.), Thailand s Continuing Crises: The Coup and Violence in the South, (Singapore: ISEAS, 2009), etc. Dr. Chap Sotharith (Chapter 7) is Advisor and Director of Cabinet of Deputy Prime Minister, H.E. Mrs. Men Sam An. And Board Member of Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP), a leading research think tank in Cambodia. He is also a Part-time lecturer in Institute of Technology and Management, International Institute of Cambodia and Royal School of Administration. He holds a Ph.D. (2006) in Economics from School of Economics and Business, The University of Sydney, Australia. He was Executive Director of CICP, Advisor to H.E. Mr. Sok An, Deputy Prime Minister in strategic and policy analyses. He has written and edited about 40 books and papers in English and Khmer. Main recent published papers and studies in English are: ASEAN and East Asian Regionalism: A Cambodian Perspective (Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace, 2007); editor of Cambodia and WTO: Future Direction (Phnom Penh, Cambodia : Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace, 2006). Dr. Nguyen Vu Tung (Chapter 8) is Deputy Director General of Institute for Strategic Studies and Foreign Policy, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV). He joined the Institute for International Relations (renamed in 2008 as DAV) in 1990. His main areas of teaching, research, and publications include international relations theories, international relations in Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific, Vietnamese foreign policy and relations with the United States and ASEAN. He got the Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University (New York City, USA) in 2003. His most recent international publications include The 1973 Paris Agreement and Vietnam ASEAN Relations, in Odd Arne Westad and Sophie Quinn-Judge (eds.) The Third Indochina War: Conflict between China, Vietnam and Cambodia, 1972 1979 (London: Routledge, 2006), etc.
178 Asia Pacific Countries Security Outlook and Its Implications for the Defense Sector Dr. Tin Maung Maung Than (Chapter 9), a Myanmar national, is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) and the coordinator of its Regional Strategic and Political Studies Programme. His research interests include: political economy of development, democratization and civil-military relations in developing countries, human security, nuclear proliferation, Myanmar politics and economics. He has a Ph.D. in Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London) and the Association for Asian Studies (USA), he is currently the Associate Editor of the ISEAS journal Contemporary Southeast Asia and the series editor of ISEAS Working Papers. He is the author of State Dominance in Myanmar: The Political Economy of Industrialization (Singapore: ISEAS, 2007); Mapping the Contours of Human Security Challenges in Myanmar, in Myanmar: State, Society and Ethnicity, eds. N. Ganesan and Kyaw Yin Hlaing (Singapore SEAS, 2007) and Myanmar in 2008: Weathering the Storm, in Southeast Asian Affairs 2009 (Singapore: ISEAS, 2009). Dr. Jian Yang (Chapter 10) is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Auckland. He chairs the Auckland Branch of New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. He is also a founding Associate Editor of The Journal of Human Security <http://www.rmitpublishing.com.au/jhs.html> and a member of New Zealand National Council of CSCAP. He is frequently interviewed by local and international media, including Reuters, Agence France Press, Xinhua News Agency, Voice of America, Radio Australia, CNSnews etc. He received his PhD from the Australian National University (1999). He has published widely on China s foreign relations, China s domestic politics and Asian security. His representative publications in 2009 include China in the South Pacific: Hegemon on the Horizon? in Pacific Review, (22:2, 2009); China s Competitive FTA Strategy: Realism on a Liberal Slide, in Mireya Solis, Barbara Stallings and Saori N. Katada (eds.), Competitive Regionalism: FTA Diffusion in the Pacific Rim (Basingstoke [England] and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), etc.,
Contributors 179 Dr. Chijiwa, Yasuaki (Chapter 11) is Fellow, 2nd Military History Research Office, Military History Department, NIDS. He got the Ph.D. in International Public Policy, from Osaka University. His areas of expertise are Japan U.S. relations, Japan s foreign and security policy. His most recent international publications include Japanese Intellectuals and Public Opinion in the War on Terrorism (co-authored), in Robert D. Eldridge and Paul Midford eds., Japanese Public Opinion and the War on Terrorism (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008); Insights into Japan U.S. Relations on the Eve of the Iraq War: Dilemmas over Showing the Flag, Asian Survey, Vol. 45, No. 6, 2005, etc.
The National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), as the main policy research arm of the Ministry of Defense (MOD) of Japan, is dedicated to strategic studies of policy relevance. It also functions as a war college-level educational institution for senior uniformed officers of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF), civilian officials of MOD, and other branches of the government. In addition, NIDS serves as the largest military history research center in Japan.