dupont "at" hei.unige.ch

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Graduate Institute
of International Studies
11a, avenue de la Paix
1202 Geneva, Switzerland

Tel: +41-22- 9085950;
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Cédric Dupont is a Senior Research Affiliate at BASC and a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva where he is Deputy Director of the Program for Strategic International Security Studies. He currently serves as an associate editor for Business and Politics.

Professor Dupont received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Geneva. He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor for the Department of Political Science, and International and Area Studies as well as a Research Associate at the Center for German and European Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the recipient of academic awards and research grants from the Hoover Institution, the Social Science Research Council and the Swiss National Foundation.

Professor Dupont has published in the areas of regional integration, international political economy and formal theory. His most recent articles include, "Goods, Games and Institutions (coauthored)," "Catching the EC Train: Austria and Switzerland in Comparative Perspective," and "European Integration and APEC. The Search for Institutional Blueprints." As a BASC Research Affiliate, he has been conducting research on European corporate lobbying strategies (with a forthcoming article on "Euro-pressure: Avenues and Strategies for Lobbying the European Union."), comparing regional integration processes, and analyzing small country responses to global economic shocks. He is currently working on patterns of differentiated integration.

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seungjoo "at" cau.ac.kr

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Department of Political Science
Chung-Ang University
221 Heukseok-dong, Dongjak-ku
Seoul, South Korea
156-756

Tel: 82-2-820-5476 (office)

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Seungjoo Lee, Assistant Professor at Chung-Ang University (Seoul, Korea), is a comparative political economist interested in U.S.-Japan trade disputes over high technology industries, political dynamics of informal networks in Japan and Korea, political bias in redistributive policy, and the transformation of the developmental state in the age of globalization. He has previously served as an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore and Yonsei University. He has also worked with BASC as a postdoctoral fellow where he focused on bilateralism in trade in Asia. As a regional specialist with expertise in Korean, Japanese, American, and Singaporean political economy, he currently investigates the divergent FTA strategies of East Asian countries.

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minkoo "at" usc.edu

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Social Sciences Building B1
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0037
Tel: 213-740-9547
Fax: 213-740-1070

Min Gyo Koo is Adjunct Professor in International Relations and Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Institute and the Korean Economic Institute at the University of Southern California. Beginning in 2007 he will be Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. His research focuses on territorial disputes in East Asia and economic and security regionalism. Most recently he has written about regionalism in the context of the Dokdo/Takeshima, Senkaku/Diaoyu, Paracel, and Spratly island chain disputes that have embroiled East Asia.

Dr. Koo holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master of Arts in International Relations and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a Master of Arts in Public Policy from the Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Administration.

John.Ravenhill "at" anu.edu.au

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Tel: +61 2 6125 2166

John Ravenhill is a BASC Senior Research Affiliate at the University of California at Berkeley. He is Professor in the Department of International Relations at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. Previously, he held the Chair of Politics at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Ravenhill was the founding editor of the Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies series for Cambridge University Press and is the Business and Politics Associate Editor for Asia and the Pacific. He has participated in BASC projects on European, Japanese and US corporate strategies in the Asia-Pacific, on inter-regionalism, and on the new bilateralism in the Asia-Pacific region.

After obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Ravenhill taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Sydney before joining the Australian National University in 1990. He has been a Visiting Professor at the International University of Japan, the University of California, Berkeley, and in the IOMBA program at the University of Geneva.

His recent books include Global Political Economy (Oxford University Press, 2005); APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2001); and The Asian Financial Crises and the Architecture of Global Finance (Cambridge University Press, 2000) His articles have appeared in leading business and political economy journals.

Professor Ravenhill has conducted research in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan. A significant component of his recent research agenda has been a study of the evolution of production networks in East Asia. He has been a consultant to the World Bank and to the US Department of State.

Shujiro Urata is Professor of Economics at Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Research Fellow at Japan Center for Economic Research, and Faculty Fellow at Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo. He is a graduate of Keio University, and holds MA and Ph.D in economics from Stanford University. He was formerly a Research Associate at the Brookings Institution and an Economist at the World Bank. He specializes in international economics and economics of development. He has held a number of research and advisory positions including senior adviser to the Government of Indonesia, consultant to the World Bank, OECD, the Asian Development Bank, and the Government of Japan. He is an author or coauthor of numerous articles in professional journals including The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Development Economics, The Journal of Comparative Economics, and The Mathematical Programming Study. He has also published and edited a number of books on international economic issues in English and Japanese, including Measuring the Costs of Protection in Japan (1995, Institute for International Economics) and Asia & Europe: Beyond Competing Regionalism (1998, Sussex Academic Press), Small Firm Dynamism in East Asia (2002, Kluwer Academic Publishers), Winning in Asia, Japanese Style: Market and Nonmarket Strategies for Success (2002, Palgrave), Competitiveness, FDI and Technological Activity in East Asia (2003, Edward Elgar)