Dr. Jin Linbo is Research Professor and former Director of Asia-Pacific
Studies at the China Institute of International Studies in Beijing. Previously
he was a Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Law, Keio University,
a Visiting Scholar at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard
University, and a JSPS Invited Scholar at the Graduate School of Law, Kyoto
University. His research focuses on contemporary Japanese politics and foreign
policy, Sino-Japanese relations and China-U.S.-Japan relations. Dr. Jin received
an M.A and Ph.D in Political Science from Nagoya University. His most recent
publications (available in Chinese) are Sino-Japanese Antagonism (2005),
Prospects of the North Korea Nuclear Issue and Six-Party Talks (2005), and
New Trends of Japanese Foreign Strategy in the 21st Century (2004).
Dr. Eric Heginbotham is a Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. He is
a specialist on East Asian political and security issues.
Before coming to RAND, he was a Senior Fellow of Asia Studies at
the Council on Foreign Relations. He has also been a visiting faculty
member of Boston College’s Political Science Department.
He speaks Japanese and Chinese and lived in Asia for more than
10 years. Dr. Heginbotham received a B.A. from Swarthmore College
and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He
recently completed a book manuscript on civil-military relations
in East Asia, Crossed Swords: Divided Militaries and Politics
in East Asia, and has published articles on Japanese and Chinese foreign
policy in Foreign Affairs, International Security, and the
National Interest, as well as chapters in several edited books.
Dr. Andrew Oros is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International
Studies, Washington College. Currently he is a visiting Northeast
Asia Fellow at the East-West Center, Washington, DC. Previously
he taught at American University and the George Washington University.
Dr. Oros received a B.A. from the University of Southern California,
an M.S. from the London School of Economics and Political Science,
and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He was also a Mombusho
Fellow at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies. Dr. Oros has
published several monographs and articles, including “Godzilla’s
Return: The New Nuclear Politics in an Insecure Japan” in
Japan’s Nuclear Option: Security, Politics, and Policy
in the 21st Century (Henry J. Stimson Center, 2003) and Can
Japan Come Back? (co-author with Pacific Council on International Policy
staff, 2002). He is currently working on a book on Japanese security.
Dr. Charles A. Kupchan is
Professor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service
and Government Department,
Georgetown University. He is also Senior Fellow and Director of European
Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Kupchan was Director
for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the
first Clinton administration, and has also worked at the U.S. Department
of State on the Policy Planning Staff. He received a B.A. from Harvard
University and M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University.
He is the author of The End of the American Era (2002), Power
in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (2001), Civic
Engagement in the Atlantic Community (1999), and numerous
articles on international and strategic affairs.
This event is supported in part by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan.
