Pang Zhongying has been teaching at Tsinghua, Nankai and Renmin Universities in China. He is also Senior Fellow at the Joint Research Program on Globalization, Beijing-based China Reform Forum and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He studied at Nankai University and the University of Warwick. He worked as a Junior Fellow with the Institute of the World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and was Senior Fellow at the China Institute of International Studies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was posted as a political analyst to the Chinese Embassy in Jakarta, where he dealt with Southeast Asian affairs. He was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick. He was also Visiting Professor at the Nanjing University-Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies. He has worked extensively on world politics, theory of international relations, globalization, regionalism, East Asia, and China’s external relations. He is a contributing editor at The National Interest and is on the editorial board of the journal Globalizations.

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About the Discussants

Robert G. Sutter specialized in Asian and Pacific Affairs and U.S. foreign policy in a U.S. government career of 33 years involving the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was for many years the Senior Specialist and Director of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division of the Congressional Research Service. He also was the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and the Pacific at the U.S. Government’s National Intelligence Council, and the China Division Director at the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. A Ph.D. graduate in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University, Robert Sutter taught part-time for over thirty years at Georgetown, George Washington, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Virginia. His current full-time position is Visiting Professor of Asian Studies at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He has published 15 books, over 100 articles and several hundred government reports dealing with contemporary East Asian and Pacific countries and their relations with the United States. His most recent work is China’s Rise: Implications for US Leadership in Asia (East-West Center 2006).

Jonathan D. Pollack is Professor of Asian and Pacific Studies and Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Studies Group at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and later joined the Rand Corporation, where he served in various research and management capacities. Dr. Pollack has taught strategic studies, East Asian international relations, and Chinese security and foreign policy at several universities. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on International Security and Arms Control, a standing committee of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Pollack is presently completing a multi-year project on major strategy and policy issues facing the United States in the Asia-Pacific region, drawing on the results of three international conferences he organized at the War College. In addition to publishing numerous reports, research monographs and edited volumes, he contributes regularly to leading professional journals in the United States and Asia, and has written numerous chapters for major volumes focusing on China’s international strategies, East Asian international politics, regional security, and U.S. foreign policy.

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