Dr. Ren Xiao is Senior Fellow and Director of the Asia-Pacific Studies Department, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), China. Before joining SIIS in 2002, he taught at Fudan University’s Department of International Relations from 1992 to 2002. Dr. Ren has also held research or teaching positions at the University of Turku, Finland, Nagoya University, Japan, and the George Washington University. His research concentrates on the international relations of the Asia-Pacific region, Northeast Asian security, and East Asia economic and security multilateralism. Dr. Ren received a Ph.D in Political Science from Fudan University. His most recent publications include (available in Chinese) U.S-China-Japan Triangular Relationship (2002) and New Perspectives on International Relations Theory (2001). He has written op-eds for many newspapers, including the Wenhui Daily and the Shanghai Evening Post.

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Ms. Catharin Dalpino is Visiting Associate Professor, Asian Studies Program and Director, Thai Studies Program, Georgetown University. Previously she was a Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (1993 -97). She has also been a career officer with The Asia Foundation that included a term as the Foundation's Representative for Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. Ms. Dalpino received her M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. Two of her recent books include Anchoring Third Wave Democracies: Problems and Prospects for U.S. Policy (1998) and Deferring Democracy: Promoting Openness in Authoritarian Regimes (2000). She has a forthcoming book on U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia after September 11, Second Front, Second Time.



Dr. Minxin Pei is a Senior Associate and Director of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His research covers U.S.-China relations and Chinese politics. Before joining the Carnegie Endowment, Dr. Pei was a faculty member of the politics department at Princeton University from 1992 to 1998. He has received numerous awards, including the Olin Faculty Fellowship, the National Fellowship of the Hoover Institution and the Robert S. MacNamara Fellowship of the World Bank. Dr. Pei received a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. He has written From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (1994) and China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (forthcoming). Dr. Pei also has published many articles in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.

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