Dr. Qin Yaqing is Vice President and Professor of International Studies,
China Foreign Affairs University. He began working at the university
in 1983, serving as a lecturer, associate professor and dean of
the Department of English and International Studies, and later
as assistant president before beginning his current position. He
has also taught at Stephen’s College in Missouri and the
University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Qin is a member of the editorial
board of Global Governance, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal
of China Foreign Affairs University, and a member of the Chinese
Association of International Relations. He received his B.A. from
Shandong Normal University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University
of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Qin has published many books and articles,
including Twenty Years’ Crisis (forthcoming), Perception
and Misperception in International Politics (2003), and Contemporary
China and Its Foreign Policy (2003).
Dr. Jeff Legro is
Associate Professor in the
Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, University of Virginia.
A specialist
on international
relations, Dr. Legro has served as a consultant to foundations,
think tanks, and government agencies. In 2002-03 he was a Fulbright
professor
at China Foreign Affairs University. He has been awarded fellowships
or grants from the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Institute
of Peace, the Ford Foundation, and Harvard University’s
Olin Institute and Center for Science and International Affairs.
Dr.
Legro received
a B.A. from Middlebury College and has an M.A. and Ph.D. from
UCLA. He is the author of Cooperation Under Fire: Anglo-German
Restraint
During World War II (1995), a contributor to The Culture of National
Security (Peter Katzenstein, ed. 1996), and has published articles
in such journals as Foreign Policy and American Political Science
Review.
Dr. Michael Swaine is a Senior Associate at
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He specializes
in Chinese security and foreign policy, U.S.-China relations,
and East Asian international relations. Previously he was
at the RAND Corporation for 12 years, where he was a senior
political scientist in international studies and research
director of the RAND Center for Asia-Pacific Policy. Prior
to joining RAND, Dr. Swaine was a consultant with a private
sector firm, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California,
Berkeley, and a research associate at Harvard University.
Dr. Swaine received a B.A. from George Washington University
and an A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has written
Ballistic Missiles and Missile Defense in Asia (co-author,
2002), Taiwan’s Foreign and Defense Policies: Features
and Determinants (co-author, 2001), and Japan and
Ballistic Missile Defense (co-author, 2001).
Dr. G. John Ikenberry is
the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International
Affairs at Princeton University. Previously he taught at Georgetown
University. Dr. Ikenberry also has been a Senior Associate at
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Fellow at
the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. He earned
his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Dr. Ikenberry is the
author of numerous publications, including State Power and
World Markets: The International Political Economy (2002), After
Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint and the Rebuilding
of Order after Major Wars (2000), and Reasons of State:
Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (1988).
