About the Contributors
Yong-Chool Ha is currently the Korea Foundation Professor at the Henry Jackson

School of International Studies, University of Washington. His main teaching areas
are: comparative politics with a focus on social change of late industrialization, lateindustrialization and international relations, Northeast Asian community and IR theories, and the Korean peninsula and world politics. His primary academic interests havebeen comparative politics and society with a particular focus on late coming nations,
Soviet and Russian politics, Korean domestic and international politics, inter-KoreanRelations and East Asian regional politics. He has published articles, monographs
and books in Korean, English, Japanese and Russian. His publications include “LateIndustrialization, the State, and Social Changes: the Emergence of Neofamilism inSouth Korea,” Comparative Political Studies 40, no.4 (2007) and Colonial Rule andSocial Change in Korea, 1910-1945 (jointly edited with Hong Yung Lee and ClarkW. Sorensen) (Washington: University of Washington Press, 2013). He is currently
completing a book on late industrialization and social change.

T.J. Pempel is Jack M. Forcey Professor of Political Science at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, US. Professor Pempel’s research focuses on comparative politics, Asian regionalism, and contemporary U.S.-Japan relations. He has authored orco-authored numerous books and articles, and has been published in a wide array of
disciplinary and area-studies journals. His latest works include, Two Crisis, Different Outcomes: East Asia and Global Finance (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,2015) and “Alliances and the Future Asia-Pacific Order,” Global Asia 11, no.1 (2016).

Paul Evans is Professor of International Relations at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research covers a wide array of topics including Canada-Chinarelations, regional security processes in the Asia-Pacific, and East Asian regionalism.
Professor Evans’ recent work includes “Searching for Cooperative Security 2.0: fromSecurity Architecture to Security Order in the Asia Pacific,” China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies 1, no.4 (2015) and “Living with Global China,” in Moving
Forward: Issues in Canada-China Relations, eds., Asif Farooq and Scott McKnight(Toronto: Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs, 2016).
Hiroyuki Okamoto is Deputy Director of the Biz Communication Library at theKyushu Economic Research Center. His research is about Kyushu’s regional economy, and he looks to promote the development of logistics and commodity distribution
within Kyushu. He holds an MBA from the Department of Business and Technology Management, Kyushu University. His publications include co-authoring Kyushu
Sangyō Dokuhon [A Kyushu Industrial Primer] (Osaka: Nishi Nippon Publishing,2010) and Sasaeau Toshokan: ‘shakai sōchi’ to shite aratana moderu to yakuwari[Support Libraries: a new model and role as social devices] (Tokyo: Bensei Publishing, 2016).

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Beom-Shik Shin is Professor of Political Science and International Relations atSeoul National University, South Korea. His area of specialization is Russia and Eurasia in world politics, with an emphasis on such topics as nonproliferation in Northeast Asia, Russia’s foreign policy and the strategic partnership between South Koreaand Russia. Professor Shin’s most recent publications include, “Russia’s Place in theChanging Strategic Triangle in the Post-Cold War Northeast Asia: From an Outcast
to a Strategic Player,” Journal of International and Area Studies 22, no.2 (2015) andSouth Korean-Russian Strategic Cooperation (Seoul: Hankuk University of ForeignStudies, 2015).
Sergey Sevastyanov is Professor of International Relations at Far Eastern Federal
University, Russia. Professor Sevastyanov’s research focuses on models of regionalism and regionalization in the Asia-Pacific, and socioeconomic policies in the region.
He is the author of several books and many articles. His most recent publications
include Introduction to Border Studies (co-edited with Jussi Laine and Anton Kireev)(Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2015) and “China’s Integration Projects in the Asia-Pacificand Eurasia,” World Economy and International Relations 60, no.4 (2016).

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