List of Contributors
Yuji Fukuhara
is Dean of the Graduate School of Northeast Asia and Development Studies and a professor of international relations at the University of Shimane, Hamada, Japan. He is the author of Northeast Asia and Research on the Korean Peninsula (2015, Japanese) and The Japanese Who Lived in ‘Takeshima’ (2013, Japanese). He is a co-editor of Modern Asia and Environmental Issues: Diversity and Dynamics (2020, Japanese). He currently works on politics and diplomacy in the Korean Peninsula, border studies, fishery policies, and disputes on historical perception of Japan and South / North Korea.
Paul Huth
is the Bauman Professor of Political Economy in the Government and Politics Department and Director of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland. He also is editor of The Journal of Conflict Resolution. He has published widely, including books, multiple edited volumes, and dozens of articles in leading peer-reviewed journals on topics related to international security and dispute resolution. In support of his research, Professor Huth has received numerous grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, United States Institute of Peace, the Minerva Program at the Department of Defense, and USAID.
Yoshinori Kaseda
is professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan. He received his B.A. in philosophy from Kumamoto University in Japan and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Northern Illinois University. His research interests include Japan’s security policy, Japan-U.S. relations, and international politics over North Korea’s nuclear development. His recent works appeared in such books as The North Korea Crisis and Regional Responses (East West Center, 2015), United States Engagement in the Asia Pacific (Cambria Press, 2015), and One Korea: Vision of Korean Unification (Routledge, 2016), and Regional Institutions, Geopolitics and Economics in the Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2017).
Sunwoong Kim
is a Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. After graduating from M.I.T. with Ph.D. in Economics and Urban Planning in 1985, he has authored more than 100 articles, several books, and numerous policy reports on urbanization, housing, human resources, education, elections and territorial disputes. He has served as the President of the Korea-America Economic Association (KAEA) and the President of the Korean American University Professor Association (KAUPA). He has served the Co-Editor of International Economic Journal between 2003 and 2015.
Hee Eun Lee
is Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Handong International Law School. He is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Yearbook of International Law and Managing Editor of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law in Asia both published by Brill|Nijhoff. He earned his bachelor’s degree (A.B.) from Vassar College and his juris doctor (J.D.) with honors from Syracuse University where he also received his master’s degree (M.A.) in international relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He received his master of laws degree (LL.M.) in international legal studies from New York University School of Law.
Jaehyun Lee
is an independent researcher based in South Korea. His research interests include the role of memories and emotions in Asian international relations, and South Korean politics and foreign policy. He has an MA in International Relations from Seoul National University and finished doctoral coursework on International Relations at American University.
Ji-Young Lee
is Associate Professor of International Relations and C.W. Lim and KF Professor of Korean Studies at American University. She is the author of China’s Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination (Columbia University Press, 2016). Her current book project, “The Great Power Next Door” (under contract with Columbia University Press), is a historically informed analysis of when and how China has chosen to militarily intervene in the Korean Peninsula. Her other works concern the impact of China’s rise on the U.S. alliance system in Asia and South Korean foreign policy.
J. Ashley Roach
J.D., L.L.M., is a retired Captain in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps and the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. State Department. He is the co-author of the third edition of Excessive Maritime Claims (Martinus Nijhoff, 2012). He chairs the International Law Association Committee on Submarine Cables and Pipelines under International Law (2019-date). He chaired the ILA Committee on Baselines under the International Law of the Sea dealing with straight baselines (2013–2018). He received his LL.M. (highest honors in public international law and comparative law) from the George Washington University School of Law in 1971 and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1963.
Terence Roehrig
is Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. He was a Research Fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard University and a past President of the Association of Korean Political Studies. He has published several books including his most recent Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella: Deterrence After the Cold War (Columbia University Press) and The Evolution of the South Korea-United States Alliance, co-authored with Uk Heo (Cambridge University Press). Dr. Roehrig received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. from Marquette University, both in political science.
Takeshi Sato
is a professor of international relations at the University of Shimane, Hamada, Japan. He is a co-editor of International Order in Transition and China’s Rise as a Global Actor (2018, Japanese). He currently works on the impact of China’s rise on international order, China’s sharp power, Japan’s policy toward the Indo-Pacific regional order, and alliance politics between Japan and the United States.
Eiichi Usuki
holds degrees from the University of Tokyo (B.Law and B.A.), Hitotsubashi University (M.Law) and University of Cambridge (Ph.D.). He is currently Professor of International Law in the Department of Asian Area Studies, Graduate School of Daito Bunka University. Before joining DBU, he was joshu (Assistant Professor) at the University of Tokyo. He has a particular interest in the international law of non-recognition and issues of the sea and the territory. His recent works include “China’s Three Distinctive Assertions under the ‘Nine-dash-line’ Claims …,” Asian Yearbook of International Law, vol. 21 (2015) and “Japan’s Legal and Historical Claim to Takeshima/Liancourt Rocks (Parts I–IV),” Bulletin of Daito Bunka University (Social Science), Nos. 56–59 (March 2018–2021).
Hyon Joo Yoo
is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea. Her research and teaching interests include U.S. alliances in East Asia, South Korea-China relations, and Chinese foreign policy. She was a Northeast Asia Visiting Fellow and POSCO fellow at the East West Center, an East Asia Institute (EAI) fellow on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia, a Korea Foundation fellow and an Abe fellow of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).