CONTRIBUTORS (in chapter order) Rizal Sukma (Chapter 1) is Executive Director at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta. He is also Chairman of International Relations, Muhammadiyah Central Executive Board. He has worked extensively on Southeast Asia s security issues, ASEAN, Indonesia s defense and foreign policy, military reform, Islam and politics, and domestic political changes in Indonesia. He received a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, in 1997. He has served as a member of National Committee on Strategic Defense Review at the Ministry of Defense, the Republic of Indonesia, and a member of National Drafting Committee for National Defense Bill (2000-2001) and the Armed Forces Bill (2002-2003). His publications include: Security Operations in Aceh: Goals, Consequences, and Lessons (Washington, DC: East-West Center, 2004); Islam in Indonesia s Foreign Policy (London: Routledge, 2003); and Indonesia and China: The Politics of a Troubled Relationship (London: Routledge, 1999). Tang Siew Mun (Chapter 2) is Director of Foreign Policy and Security Studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia. Prior to joining ISIS, he was a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. His primary research interest is East Asia security and Japan s foreign relations. He holds a Ph.D. (2004) from Arizona State University in Political Science. He is a member of the International Studies Association and the Malaysian Social Science Association (PSSM). He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Malaysian Japanese Studies Association. Additionally, he is a regular guest speaker at the Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations. He has contributed to numerous book chapters, in addition to national and international journals. Herman Joseph S. Kraft (Chapter 3) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of the Philippines where he teaches courses in International Relations and Comparative Politics. He has worked on and published articles and book chapters on regional security and security issues involving the Philippines and Southeast Asia. His recent publications include: Human Security in Southeast Asia: Changing Security Norms in ASEAN? in Chantana Banpasirichote, Philippe Doneys, Mike Hayes, and Chandan Sengupta, eds. Mainstreaming Human Security: Asian Perspectives, Bangkok, Thailand: Chula Global Network, 2012, pp. 16-29; and Driving East Asian Regionalism: the Reconstruction of ASEAN s
156 Security Outlook of the Asia Pacific Countries and Its Implications for the Defense Sector Identity, in Ralf Emmers, ed. ASEAN and the Institutionalization of East Asia, Boulder: Routledge, 2012, pp. 61-74. Lam Peng Er (Chapter 4) is a Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. He was a Visiting Fellow at NIDS in December 2009 - March 2010. He obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His latest book is titled Japan s Peace-building Diplomacy in Asia: Seeking a more active political role (New York and London: Routledge, 2009). Thitinan Pongsudhirak (Chapter 5) is Director of the Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS) and Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. He has authored a host of articles, books and book chapters on Thai politics, political economy, foreign policy, and media as well as ASEAN and East Asian security and economic cooperation. His award-winning PhD was taken at the London School of Economics. A frequent analyst in the international media, his recent publications include: Thailand s Uneasy Passage, Journal of Democracy, April-June 2012; Thailand in Ann Capling and Patrick Low (eds), Governments, Non-State Actors and Trade Policy-Making, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010 Between Continuity and Change: Thailand s Topsy-Turvy Foreign Policy Directions in Global Asia. He serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals and has held visiting positions at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Stanford University. Carlyle A. Thayer (Chapter 6) is Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), Canberra. He holds degrees from Brown, Yale and The Australian National University. Thayer first taught at The Royal Military College-Duntroon (1979-85) before transferring to ADFA. He has also held senior appointments at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, U.S. Pacific Command (1999-01); Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies at the Australian Defence College (2002-04); and the Australian Command and Staff College (2006-07 and 2010). He was appointed the C. V. Starr Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 2005 and the Inaugural Fuller Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ohio University in 2008. He is the author of over 450 publications including:
Contributors 157 Southeast Asia: Patterns of Security Cooperation (2010), Vietnam People s Army: Development and Modernization (2009), and The Vietnam People s Army Under Doi Moi (1994). Tin Maung Maung Than (Chapter 7), a Myanmar national, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) Singapore where he is a member of its Regional Strategic and Political Studies Programme. He has a Masters in nuclear physics from the Rangoon Arts & Science University and a graduate diploma in economic planning from the Rangoon Institute of Economics, as well as a Ph.D. in politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Currently, he is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London) and the Association for Asian Studies (USA). He is the author of State Dominance in Myanmar: The Political Economy of Industrialization (Singapore: ISEAS, 2007) and Myanmar s 2010 Elections, Continuity and Change, in Southeast Asian Affairs 2011 (Singapore: ISEAS, 2011). His research interests include: political economy of development, democratization and civil-military relations in developing countries, human security, nuclear proliferation, Myanmar politics and economics. Mashbat Otgonbayar Sarlagtay (Chapter 8) is Vice Director and Dean of Research of the Institute for Strategic Studies (ISS). He has made his LL.M in Law School, National University of Mongolia in 1998, and his MA in National Security Affairs in Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA, in 2007. Prior to his fifteen year long service in the ISS, he has served as an Aid to Chairman of Standing Committee of National Security and Foreign Affairs, Parliament of Mongolia in1996-1998. Mr. Otgonbayar has specialized in Tibetan Affairs in China although has worked in different fields of national security concerns of Mongolia, ranging from PKO problems to Korean Peninsula problems. He has taken an active part in drafting the current National Security Concept of Mongolia adopted by the parliament in 2010. Satu P. Limaye (Chapter 9) is Director, East-West Center in Washington and a Senior Advisor at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA). He was a research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). From 1998 to 2005 he was director of research and publications at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS), a direct reporting unit to United States Pacific Command. Dr. Limaye
158 Security Outlook of the Asia Pacific Countries and Its Implications for the Defense Sector received his Ph.D. in international relations from Oxford University (Magdalen College) where he was a Marshall Scholar. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Georgetown University s School of Foreign Service. In addition to his institutional leadership, management, programmatic and fundraising duties, Dr. Limaye regularly writes and edits books, chapters, and articles. A recent work is America s Relations with Southeast Asia: Constraints and Promise, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 32, No. 3, December 2010 the lead article of a special cover issue that he conceived and commissioned entitled America Re-engages Southeast Asia. Ryo Asano (Chapter 10) is a Professor of Doshisha University, Japan. His research interests include China s security policy, foreign policy, and IR theory. Recent publications of Prof. Asano include: China s Expanding Military Power (Tokyo: Koyo-Shobo, 2012), China s Military Force (Tokyo: Iwanami-Shoten, 2011), and China s Military Power (Tokyo: Sodo-Sha, 2009). Tomohiko Satake (Chapter 11) is a Fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) located in Tokyo. He specializes in alliance studies, Asia-Pacific security, and Japanese security policies. He earned B.A. and M.A. from Keio University, and PhD in international relations from the Australian National University. His publication includes: Japan, Australia and International Security Burden-sharing with the United States, in William Tow and Rikki Kersten (eds), Bilateral Perspectives on Regional Security: Australia, Japan and the Asia-pacific Region (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); The Origin of Trilateralism? The US-Japan- Australia Security Relations during the 1990s, The International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2011; and Japan s Nuclear Policy: Between Nonnuclear Identity and US Extended Deterrence, Austral Policy Forum, 09 12-A (May 2009).
The National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), as the main policy research arm of the Ministry of Defense (MOD) of Japan, is dedicated to strategic studies of policy relevance. It also functions as a war college-level educational institution for senior uniformed officers of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF), civilian officials of MOD, and other branches of the government. In addition, NIDS serves as the largest military history research center in Japan.