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Richard
A. Bitzinger is a Senior
Fellow with the S.Rajaratnam School of International
Studies, where his work focuses on military
and defense issues relating to the Asia-Pacific
region, including the challenges of defense
transformation in the Asia-Pacific, regional
military modernization activities, and local
defense industries, arms production, and weapons
proliferation.
Mr. Bitzinger is the author of Towards a
Brave New Arms Industry? (Oxford University Press,
2003), “Come the Revolution: Transforming
the Asia-Pacific’s Militaries,” Naval
War College Review (Fall 2005), and Transforming
the U.S. Military: Implications for the Asia-Pacific (ASPI, December 2006). He has written several
monographs and book chapters, and his articles
have appeared in such journals as International
Security, Orbis, China Quarterly, and The
Korean Journal of Defense Analysis.
Mr. Bitzinger was previously an Associate Professor
with the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
(APCSS), Honolulu, Hawaii, and has also worked
for the RAND Corporation, the Center for Strategic
and Budgetary Affairs, and the U.S. Government.
In 1999-2000, he was a Senior Fellow with the
Atlantic Council of the United States. He holds
a Masters degree from the Monterey Institute
of International Affairs and has pursued additional
postgraduate studies at the University of California,
Los Angeles.
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Gerard
Chaliand is considered
since decades as a pre-eminent observer
of insurgency warfare. For the past 20
years he has observed guerrilla movements
in countries of Asia, Africa and Latin
America, and has had close battlefield
contact with African, South American, Afghan
and Vietnamese guerrillas among others.
Dr. Chaliand has written about 40 books,
20 of which have been translated into English.
He has taught at the prestigious Ecole
Nationale d'Administration as well as at
the National War College in Paris. He has
also been a Visiting Professor at Harvard
University, UCLA and the University of
California at Berkeley. Dr. Chaliand was
Director of the European Center for the
Study of Conflicts as well as an advisor
to the Center of Analysis and Planning
of the French Foreign Ministry. He is spent
nine months in Iraq in the last five years
and has been recently twice in Afghanistan
has Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre
for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS) in
Kabul.
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Chen Kang is associate professor
of economics at Nanyang Technological University
(NTU). He received the B.Sc. from Xiamen
University, the M.Sc. from Ohio University
and the Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.
Before joining NTU, Dr. Chen worked at
the World Bank’s Socialist Economies
Reform Unit and subsequently taught at
the National University of Singapore. He
was the Head of the Econometric Modelling
Unit from 1996 to 2004 and Head of Economics
Division from 1999 to 2005. He has published
widely on issues relating to macroeconomic
modelling, economic reform and development,
and the economic role of government in
professional journals including Journal
of Comparative Economics, Economic System
Research, European Journal of Political
Economy, China Economic Quarterly, International
Journal of Public Administration, Economic
Modelling, and Singapore Economic Review.
He is author of The Chinese Economy in
Transition: Micro Changes and Macro Implications
(Singapore University Press, 1995). His
current research interests include public
choice, agent based models, central-local
relations, public policy and private sector
response. Dr. Chen also served as a consultant
to Asian Development Bank, Singapore Trade
Development Board, Civil Aviation Authority
of Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board,
Ministry of Trade and Industry, Housing & Development
Board, Ministry of Manpower, Ministry of
Finance, and several multinational corporations.
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Bruce Hoffman has
been studying terrorism and insurgency
for thirty years. He is currently a tenured professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown
University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC. Professor Hoffman previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and
Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation and was also Director of RAND’s Washington, D.C. Office. From 2001 to 2004, he served as RAND’s Vice
President for External Affairs and in 2004 he also was Acting Director of RAND’s Center for Middle East Public Policy. Professor Hoffman was adviser on
counterterrorism to the Office of National Security Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq during the spring of 2004 and from 2004-2005 was an
adviser on counterinsurgency to the Strategy, Plans, and Analysis Office at Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters, Baghdad. He was also an adviser to the
Iraq Study Group. Professor Hoffman is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program, Human Rights Watch, New York,
NY; a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.; a Senior Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center, U.S. Military
Academy, West Point, NY; a Senior Fellow at the National Security Studies Center at Haifa University, Israel; Distinguished Fellow and Senior Advisor on
International Security Programs, Institute of Public and International Affairs, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; a Visiting Professor at the University of Sergio
Arboleda, Bogota, Colombia; a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel; and, a Visiting Professor at the S.
Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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Paul
T. Mitchell comes to the
School from the Canadian Forces College
in Toronto, where he was the Director of
Academics for four years and helped establish
the Masters in Defence Studies for the
Command and Staff Course taught there.
His research interests are in US military
policy and operations, especially in the
area of transformation and emerging operational
concepts. In 2003, he was awarded the United
States Naval Institute’s Literary
Award for the best article on surface naval
warfare for his article in the Naval
War College Review, “Network
Centric Warfare and Small Navies: Is there
a Role?”. He has published in Journal
of Strategic Studies, Armed Forces and
Society, US Naval Institute Proceedings,
US Naval War College Review, and the Canadian
Military Journal. In 1997, he co-edited Multinational
Naval Cooperation and Foreign Policy in
the 21st Century. He has taught at
Queen’s University Kingston, Dalhousie
University in Halifax, the Pearson Peacekeeping
Centre, Royal Military College, and the
Canadian Forces College. He has a PhD in
Political Studies from Queen’s University
and an MA from King’s College London
in War Studies. He is married to Meithili
and has two children, Christianne Saraswati,
and Alexander Siddharth.
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Antonio
L Rappa, PhD (Hawaii, 1997) works
on Southeast Asian cultures, politics and
economics. He is writing a book on Asian
Special Forces in Southeast Asia. He is the
author of “Ethnocratism: The Case
for Malaysia, 1955-1995” (1997); Modernity
and Consumption: Theory, Politics and the
Public in Singapore and Malaysia (2002);
Globalization: An Asian Perspective on
Modernity and Politics in America. Singapore and New
York: Marshall Cavendish (2004); and Language
Policy and Modernity in Southeast Asia Kluwer
Academic Press/Springer (2006) co-authored
with Lionel Wee.
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| John Ravenhill, PhD (California, Berkeley), is Professor in the Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. He was previously Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, and has been a Visiting Professor at the International University of Japan and at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent books include Global Political Economy (editor, 2005), Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation: The Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism (2001), The Asian Financial Crisis and the Architecture of Global Finance (co-editor, 2000), and The National Interest in a Global Era: Australia in World Affairs, 1996-2000 co-editor, 2002). His articles have appeared in many of the leading international relations journals including World Politics, International Organization, World Policy Journal, World Development, and International Affairs. He was the founding editor of the Cambridge University Press Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies series, and is on the editorial boards of Pacific Affairs, International Relations, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and Global Economic Review. He was the first winner of the Australasian Political Studies Association's L.F. Crisp medal. |
PETER WILSON is an Adjunct Fellow in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and a former Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore, where he taught from 1989 to 2007, having previously taught for a year in Malaysia and, prior to that, at a number of Universities in the UK including Warwick, Sussex, Bradford and Hull. He is also currently adjunct teaching at Singapore Management University and teaches on the University of Adelaide MBA and Master of Finance courses in Singapore. His main teaching and research interests lie in macroeconomics and international economics with special reference to East and South-East Asia. Dr. Wilson has co-authored (with Gavin Peebles) two books on Singapore: The Singapore Economy (1996); Economic Growth and Development in Singapore: Past and Present (2002); co-authored (with Euston Quah) an Asian edition of Mankiw’s Principles of Economics; and has published articles in journals such as World Economy, Applied Economics, Australian Economic Papers, Open Economies Review, Journal of Economic Studies, Asian Economic Journal, Economic Modeling and Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy. He has been a Consultant to the Economic Policy Department at the Monetary Authority of Singapore since 2004, edits their bi-annual Macroeconomic Review, teaches the Monetary Authority of Singapore Economic Policy Course, and is a former Chairman of the Education subcommittee for the Economic Society of Singapore.
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