Michael Green is
the Japan Chair and a Senior Adviser at CSIS as well as an
Associate Professor of International Relations
at Georgetown University. He served as Special Assistant to
the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director
for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council from January
2004 to December 2005, and first joined the NSC in 2001. Dr.
Green received his Ph.D. from SAIS in 1994. His publications
include Japan’s Reluctant Realism (2001), The
U.S.-Japan Alliance (1999), and Arming Japan (1995). He is a member of
the Council on Foreign Relations and the Institute for International
Security Studies.
Peter Christian Hauswedell retired from the German Foreign
Service in July 2006. He joined that organization in 1974 and
a variety of diplomatic postings followed in Asia and Europe.
From 1992 to 1997 he was seconded to the Office of the Federal
Chancellor as Director in Charge of German bilateral relations
to the countries of Asia, Near and Middle East, Latin America
and Africa as well as worldwide international organizations.
From 2002 until his retirement, he was Director General for
Asia and the Pacific Region in the German Foreign Ministry.
He studied Political Science and International Relations at
Berlin Free University and St. Antony's College, Oxford University,
and received his Ph.D. from Cornell University.
Kyaw Yin Hlaing is currently a visiting fellow at the East-West Center, Washington
and an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Political Science, National University of Singapore. Dr.
Kyaw was born and brought up in Mandalay, Myanmar. He received
a BA in 1992 from the University of Mandalay and an MA and
Ph.D. from Cornell University. At the East-West Center, he
is currently researching the issue of why Myanmar’s pro-democracy
movement has yet to effect democratic changes in the country.
Pavin Chachavalpongpun is an independent writer currently based in
Singapore. He has worked as a guest lecturer at the
Thai Studies Section, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University,
and at Chulachomklao Military Academy. Dr. Pavin received his
Ph.D. from the Department of Political Studies, School of Oriental
and African Studies, University of London, in 2002. He is the
author of A Plastic Nation: The Curse of Thainess in Thai-Burmese
Relations (University Press of America, 2005). He is also a
regular contributor to The Nation—a leading English newspaper
in Thailand, writing mostly on topics relating to Thailand,
Thai nationalism and Thai Foreign Policy.
Andrew Selth is
a Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith
University in Brisbane, Australia. He has been
studying international security issues and Asian affairs for
35 years, as a professional diplomat, strategic intelligence
analyst, and academic. He has published five books and more
than 70 refereed monographs and articles, most of them about
Burma and related subjects. His latest major work is Burma’s
Armed Forces: Power Without Glory.
Tsumori Shigeru was Japan’s ambassador to Myanmar from
2000 until his retirement in 2002. He joined the Japanese Ministry
of Foreign Affairs in 1965, served in many locations including
the USSR and Germany, and was ambassador to Kuwait from 1998-2000.
He has taught at Osaka University, Toyo Eiwa University, Haragoromo
International University, and Tazukayama University, and written
many books on such subjects as the former Yugoslavia, international
NGOs, ASEAN, regional security, and Myanmar. Ambassador Tsumori
is a trustee of the Japan Institute of International Affairs,
a member of the Asian Dialogue Society (Singapore), and a trustee
of the Myanmar Economic and Management Institute.
David Steinberg is Distinguished Professor and Director of
Asian Studies, Georgetown University. He was previously a Representative
of the Asia Foundation in Korea; Distinguished Professor of
Korea Studies, Georgetown University; and President of the
Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs. Earlier, as a member
of the Senior Foreign Service, USAID, Department of State,
he was Director for Technical Assistance in Asia and the Middle
East, and Director for Philippines, Thailand, and Burma Affairs.
Professor Steinberg was educated at Dartmouth College, Lingnan
University (Canton, China), Harvard University, and the School
of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is
the author of thirteen books and monographs, including: Turmoil
in Burma: Contested Legitimacies in Myanmar (2006), Burma:
The State of Myanmar (2001), Stone Mirror: Reflections
on Contemporary Korea (2002), and The Republic of
Korea. Economic Transformation and Social Change (1989). He has authored over 100 articles
and book chapters, and some 250 op-eds.
