Alexander Cooley is professor and chair of the Political Science Department at Barnard College, Columbia University in New York where he teaches international relations. He is the author of dozens of articles and four academic books. His most recent book, Great Games, Local Rules: The
Feng Shaolei is Dean of the School of Advanced International and Area Studies (SAIAS) at East China Normal University, where is he is also Director of the Center for Russian Studies. Feng is a member of Sino-Russian Committee of Friendship, as well as Editor-in-Chief of
Paul Armstrong-Taylor is currently Professor of Economics at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, the China campus of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Before coming to the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics and Finance at Shanghai Jiaotong University. He
Barbara Demick is Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times and has been interviewing North Koreans about their lives since 2001, when she moved to Seoul to report for the Los Angeles Times. Her reporting on North Korea won the Overseas Press Club award for
Dr. Zhang Xiaotong is the Executive Director of Wuhan University Centre for Economic Diplomacy, and Associate Professor of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Wuhan University. He previously worked at the U.S. Desk of China’s Ministry of Commerce