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STEVE SMITH is Vice Chancellor and Professor at the University of Exeter, and Chair of the England and Northern Ireland Council of Universities UK. Prior to taking up that post in October 2002 he was Professor of International Politics and Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1992. Before that he was Professor of International Relations at the University of East Anglia. He was the editor of the Cambridge University Press series Studies in International Relations from 1986-2006. In 2003/ 04 he assumed responsibilities as President of the International Studies Association. He has written over 100 academic papers and is the author/editor of 15 books, most recently (edited with Tim Dunne and Milja Kurki) International Relations Theories (Oxford University Press, 2007), (edited with Tim Dunne and Amelia Hadfield) Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008), and (edited with John Baylis and Patricia Owens) The Globalization of World Politics (4th edition, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008). He has served as external examiner at over a dozen leading British universities.
 
Lee Lai To holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Lee, who has written and lectured internationally and regionally on Chinese politics, the South China Sea conflicts, cross-strait relations, Singapore’s foreign policy, and Asia- Pacific security, has also been actively taking part in many of the academic and Track Two conferences on regional and international affairs. His professional interests have taken him to numerous universities in the US, Canada and Asia as a visiting scholar and provided him with many opportunities to work with like-minded academic, official, semi-official and private think tanks and strategic institutes especially those in the Asia-Pacific region. 
Consultant
 
STEPHEN M. WALT is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Faculty Chair of the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he served as Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences. He has been a Resident Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution; as well as consultant for the Institute for Defense Analyses, the Center for Naval Analyses, and the National Defense University. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May 2005. He serves on the editorial boards of Foreign Policy, Security Studies, International Relations and The Journal of Cold War Studies, and is Co-Editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, published by Cornell University Press. Professor Walt is the author of The Origins of Alliances (1987), which received the 1988 Edgar S. Furniss National Security Book Award, and Revolution and War (1996). Recent articles include “An Unnecessary War” Foreign Policy (January/February 2003); and “The Relationship between Theory and Policy in International Relations,” in the Annual Review of Political Science (2005).  His most recent book is Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy (2005), which was a finalist for the 2006 Lionel Gelber Book Award and the 2006 Arthur Ross Book Award.
 

 


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