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.
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.
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 received his Ph.D. from 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).
This event is supported in part by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan.
