USF Center for the Pacific Rim - North Korea's Nuclear Crisis

SPEAKERS’ BIOS

Victor D. Cha
Victor D. Cha holds the D.S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and Government in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and a B.A./M.A. from Oxford University. He is the award-winning author of Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle (winner of the 2000 Ohira Book Prize) and has had his articles on international relations and East Asia published in major journals including Foreign Affairs, International Security, Political Science Quarterly, Survival, International Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Strategic Studies, among others. He is currently director of the American Alliances in Asia Project at Georgetown, and is co-author of a 2003 book, Nuclear North Korea? A Debate on Strategies of Engagement.

Cha is a former John M. Olin National Security Fellow at Harvard University, two-time Fulbright Scholar, and Hoover National Fellow and CISAC Fellow at Stanford. He has been a guest analyst for various media including CNN, ABC Nightline, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, CBS Morning Show, Fox news, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, National Public Radio, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Time. He serves on the editorial boards of Asian Security; Journal of Comparative Governance; Problems of Post-Communism, and Korean Journal of International Relations. Return to Schedule

Bruce Cumings
Bruce Cumings is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History at the University of Chicago, and teaches international history, modern Korean history, and East Asian political economy. He received his B.A. from Denison University in 1965, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1975. He has taught at Swarthmore College (1975-77), the University of Washington (1977-86), and Northwestern University (1994-97). He is the author of the two-volume study, The Origins of the Korean War (1981, 1990), War and Television (1992), Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History (1997), Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American East Asian Relations (1999), North Korea: Another Country (2003) and is the editor of the modern volume of the Cambridge History of Korea (forthcoming). He is a frequent contributor to The Nation, Current History, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999, and is the recipient of fellowships from NEH, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford. He was also the principal historical consultant for the Thames Television/PBS 6-hour documentary, Korea: The Unknown War. Return to Schedule

Rosemary Foot
Rosemary Foot is professor of International Relations and the John Swire Senior Research Fellow in the International Relations of East Asia, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. In 1996 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. She took her Ph.D. in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1977 and became a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex in 1978. Since 1990 she has been at Oxford where she teaches in the M.Phil and D.Phil programs in the Department of Politics and International Relations.

Foot is the sole author of several books, two on the Korean War, one on U.S.-China relations, and in 2000 of Rights Beyond Borders: The Global Community and the Struggle over Human Rights in China. In February 2004 she published an Adelphi Paper (No. 363) for IISS, London, entitled Human Rights and Counter-terrorism in America’s Asia Policy. She is also co-editor of five other books, including most recently with John L. Gaddis and Andrew Hurrell, Order and Justice in International Relations, 2003) and with S. Neil MacFarlane and Michael Mastanduno, US Hegemony and International Organizations, 2003). Forthcoming in 2004 and co-edited with Barry Buzan is Does China Matter? A Reassessment. Return to Schedule

Patrick Lloyd Hatcher
Patrick Lloyd Hatcher is a Kiriyama Distinguished Fellow at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley and taught in both the History and Political Science Departments at Berkeley until his retirement in 1991. He has also taught at U.C. Davis, St. Mary’s College, and here at USF, where he was the Kiriyama Professor in spring 2001. His special interest is national security matters. He is often seen on Bay Area television commenting on issues of war and peace and has also made two films for the History Channel.

Hatcher’s publications include The Suicide of an Elite: American Internationalists in Vietnam, Economic Earthquakes: Military Base Closings, and North Atlantic Civilization at War. He is a frequent contributor to the Japan Policy Research Institute’s publications including his recent “It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Superdong! Or What the North Koreans Have Wrought.” Hatcher received the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster from the U.S. Defense Department (1981), the Palmes Academiques from the French government (1991), and the Anna Chennault Medal from Beijing Normal University (2002). The award he treasures most came when UC Berkeley students voted him the Instructor of the Year in 1988. Return to Schedule

Peter J. Hayes
Peter J. Hayes is co-founder and executive director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability in Berkeley, California and a specialist in energy and security issues. His special concern is equity aspects of development planning and projects. Hayes holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. from the University of Melbourne. Among many positions, he has served as consultant to Energy Development International, Inc., Metasystems, Inc., the International Development Research Center in Toronto, Associates in Rural Development, De Lucia Associates, and the Commission and Department of Industry/Technology and Commerce for the Australian Government. He has been a consultant to the U.N. Development Program on global energy, environmental, and security issues and to the Asian Development Bank in Manila.

Hayes’ numerous publications include contributed articles to the 2002 Asian Perspectives, a special issue on the Energy Crisis and Renewable Energy Development in North Korea. He co-authored or co-edited Peace and Security in Northeast Asia: The Nuclear Issue (1997) and Space Power Interests (1996). Hayes co-authored Global Greenhouse Regime: Who Pays? (1993). He has lived abroad and lectured extensively at universities and international agencies in many countries including Japan, India, and North and South Korea. Return to Schedule

David C. Kang
David Kang is associate professor of Government and adjunct associate professor and research director at the Center for International Business at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. He has scholarly interests in both business-government relations and international relations, with a focus on Asia. Kang lived in Korea for more than three years, has traveled extensively throughout Asia, and has consulted for U.S. and Asian firms across the Pacific. Kang has been a visiting associate professor at Yale University, Korea University in Seoul, and U.C. San Diego. He received an B.A. with honors from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Berkeley (1995).

Kang’s books include Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in Korea and the Philippines (2002), and Nuclear North Korea: A Debate over Engagement Strategies (co-authored with Victor Cha), 2003). He has published scholarly articles in journals such as International Organization, International Security, Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Foreign Policy, World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Orbis, and Security Studies. He has also appeared on PBS' “The News Hour,” CNN’s “Moneyline,” on CNN financial news programs, and with the BBC World News Service, as well as numerous radio programs. Kang has also written opinion pieces for the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Los Angeles Times. Return to Schedule

Kongdan (Katy) Oh
Kongdan (Katy) Oh is a Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington, D.C., and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is a member of the Korea Task Force of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Korea Working Group of the United States Institute of Peace, the Council on US-Korea Security Studies, and the co-founder and Co-Director of The Korea Club in Washington, D.C. She received her B.A. at Sogang University and her M.A. at Seoul National University. She subsequently earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Oh’s recent publications include Confronting North Korea’s Nuclear Ambitions: US Policy Options and Regional Implications (2003), Korea Briefing 2000-2001: First Steps Toward Reconciliation and Reunification (Co-editor, 2002), Northeast Asian Strategic Security Environment Study (2001), and North Korea through the Looking Glass (2000). Return to Schedule

T.J. Pempel
T.J. Pempel has been Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley since 2002. Previously he was the Boeing Professor of International Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies and adjunct professor in Political Science at the University of Washington. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Pempel’s research and teaching focus on comparative politics, political economy, contemporary Japan, and Asian regionalism. His recent books include a co-edited volume, Beyond Bilateralism (2003), The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis, Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy, and Uncommon Democracies: The One-Party Dominant Regimes, and The Japanese Civil Service and Economic Development: Catalysts of Development, a jointly edited book sponsored by the World Bank. In addition to the above, he has published three earlier solely authored books, over sixty articles and chapters in books, is on editorial boards of several professional journals, and serves on various committees of the American Political Science Association, the Association for Asian Studies, and the Social Science Research Council. Return to Schedule

Scott Snyder
Scott Snyder is a Senior Associate in the International Relations program of The Asia Foundation and Pacific Forum CSIS. He is based in Washington, D.C. He spent four years in Seoul as Korea Representative of The Asia Foundation during 2000-2003. Previously, he has served as a Program Officer in the Research and Studies Program of the U.S. Institute of peace, and as Acting Director of The Asia Society’s Contemporary Affairs Program. He has recently edited with Gordon Flake a study entitled Paved With Good Intentions: The NGO Experience in North Korea (2003), and is author of Negotiating on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior (1999). Snyder received his B.A. from Rice University and an M.A. from the Regional Studies East Asia Program at Harvard University. He was the recipient of an Abe Fellowship, administered by the Social Sciences Research Council, in 1998-99, and was a Thomas G. Watson Fellow at Yonsei University in South Korea in 1987-88. Return to Schedule

Stephen Uhalley
Stephen Uhalley is a Kiriyama Distinguished Fellow at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim. Uhalley received his B.A. from the University of California at Riverside, M.A. from Claremont Graduate School, and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley where he was a charter fellow of the Center for Chinese Studies. He was an officer of The Asia Foundation, a senior fellow and research associate at the East-West Center, and scholar-in-residence at the Asia Society in New York. He is also emeritus professor of history at the University of Hawaii, where he served as chair of the History Department and director of Asian Studies. He was the first Kiriyama Chair Professor of Pacific Rim Studies at USF in 1996-97.

Uhalley’s numerous scholarly publications on Asia include a biography of Mao Zedong, a history of the Chinese Communist Party, the annual chapter on China (for 19 years) in the Hoover Institution’s Yearbook on International Communist Affairs, and an edited volume of documents on Sino-Soviet relations. He also co-edited China and Christianity, a volume based on an important international conference held at USF in 1999. Currently he is working on the contemporary ‘Greater China’ phenomenon, China’s Taiping revolt of the 19th century, and Chinese aviation. Return to Schedule