Columbia University, Department of Political Science, Ph.D.
Harriman Institute, Columbia University, Certificate.
Yale University, Department of Russian and East European Studies, M.A.
Barnard College, Columbia University. Major: Political Science, Minor: French, B.A., Magna cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa.
Research Associate, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University (current). Conduct research, participate in institute programs.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (Spring 2005). Taught graduate seminar, supervised M.A. theses.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University (2004-2005). Taught undergraduate courses in international relations and comparative politics at Columbia College and Barnard College.
Visiting Scholar and Professor, Department of Political Science, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School University (September 2003-May 2004). Developed new graduate course on Non-Traditional Security, advised students, participated in departmental activities.
Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Department of Politics and Sociology, Lingnan University, Hong Kong (September 2002-June 2003). Taught courses in International Relations and Asian Studies, advised students, conducted research.
Research Associate, Department of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University. (June 1999-August 2000). Conducted research and wrote about economic integration in Northeast Asia. Briefed policymakers and business community.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University. Taught an upper level undergraduate seminar in Chinese Politics. (January-May 2000).
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University (September 1997-May 1999). Taught undergraduate courses in comparative politics and international relations, advised students.
Visiting Scholar, East Asian Institute and Harriman Institute, Columbia University
(1996-97).
Visiting Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (June 1995-May 1996).
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University (1992-93) and Davis Center, Harvard University (1991-2).
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Columbia University (Spring 1991). Taught Introduction to Political Science.
Visiting Scholar, Oxford University, St. Antony’s College (Spring 1988).
Regional Adviser, Freedom House. (current, since July 2003) Review and comment on East Asia reports and ratings for Democracy Survey project. Attend advisory group meetings.
Senior Research Analyst, EastWest Institute. (August 2000-January 2002) Wrote, edited, and published biweekly Internet journal. Participated in institute projects, briefings, and conferences.
Consultant, Washington State China Relations Council. (September 1999-February 2000). Conducted research for a feasibility study of a new trade route from Puget Sound ports through the Russian Far East to northeast China. Interviewed officials and prepared report used as basis for study submitted to U.S. Department of Commerce.
Program Specialist, United States Information Agency (June 1994 - May 1995). Developed and monitored institutional partnerships between universities in the United States and in the former Soviet Union to facilitate curriculum development in the Social Sciences.
Consultant, Natural Resources Defense Council (October 1993 - April 1994). Developed proposal to create an environmental law center in the Russian Far East. Conducted research on Russian environmental issues.
Consultant, Pacific Energy and Resources Center (November 1992 - April 1993). Provided background research about the environmental impact of a UNDP project to develop infrastructure and industry in the Tumen River area of Northeast Asia.
Rapporteur, Council on Foreign Relations, Donald Zagoria’s Study Group on East Asian Security (1987-88).
Foreign Affairs Analyst, U.S. Embassy Moscow (summer 1985).
Coordinated Embassy coverage of XIIth World Youth Festival. Wrote cables on youth issues, human rights, and terrorism.
Foreign Affairs Analyst, U.S. Department of State (summer 1984). Wrote Congressional testimony, memoranda, briefing materials, and press guidances on Soviet human rights issues. Answered Congressional correspondence on human rights. Assisted with compilation of a booklet on arms control for the Office of Public Affairs.
U.S. Department of State Speaker Program, Vladivostok, Russia, June 2005.
POSCO Visiting Fellowship, East-West Center, July 2004 and July 2005.
Fulbright Lecturing Award, Hong Kong, August 2002-June 2003.
Smith Richardson Foundation Research Grant, 6/98-8/00.
Pacific Cultural Foundation Research Grant, Beijing and Harbin, 6/96-8/96.
IREX Short-term travel grant, Khabarovsk, August 1995.
IREX Short-term travel grant, Vladivostok, May 1994.
IREX Short-term travel grant, Moscow, May 1993.
Kennan Institute short-term grant, January 1993.
Title VIII Postdoctoral research fellowship, Hoover Institution, 1992-93.
Postdoctoral research fellowship, Davis Center, Harvard University, 1991-92.
ACTR Research exchange fellowship, Moscow State University, May-June 1991.
Pepsico Travel fellowship, Summer 1989.
Harriman Institute junior fellowship, 1990-91, 1989-90, 1987-88, 1986-87.
Columbia University fellowship, 1984-86.
Yale University fellowship, 1982-84.
Member, Editorial Board, East Asia.
Reviewer, International Studies Quarterly.
Reviewer, MacArthur Foundation.
IDSS/Ford Foundation Project on Non-Traditional Security in Asia (Current).
United Nations University/Monterey Institute of International Studies, Study Group on Human Flows in Northeast Asia (October 2001- August 2004).
Monterey Institute for International Studies, Working Group on U.S.-Japan Cooperation in the Sustainable Development of the Russian Far East, Spring 2000.
National Bureau for Asian Research, Working Group on Russian Far East Security
(October 1999-May 2000).
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Working Group on Sino-Russian Relations, (May-October 1997).
China as a Risk Society, book.
“Networking Security and Insecurity,” article.
“U.S.- China Relations and the Korean Nuclear Crisis,” article.
1. Books
Mending Fences with China: The Evolution of Moscow's China Policy, 1969-99 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001).
2. Policy Studies
The Strategic Consequences of the Iraq War: U.S. Security Interests in Central Asia Reassessed, U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, May 2004.
Growing U.S. Security Interests in Central Asia, U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, October 2002.
One Asia Policy or Two? Moscow and the Russian Far East Debate Russia’s Asia Policy, NBR Analysis, Vol. 13, No. 1, March 2002.
3. Working Papers
China as a Risk Society, East-West Center, forthcoming 2005.
Integration or Disintegration? Challenges for the Russian Far East in the Asia-Pacific Region, Occasional Paper, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (with Tamara Troyakova), Occasional Papers No. 1, December 2003.
“Russia in Asia in 2005,” Asian Survey, forthcoming January 2006.
“Sino-Russian Relations in a Changed International Landscape,” China Perspectives (Hong Kong), September-October 2002.
“Russia and China: Brothers Again?” Asian Survey, September/October 2001.
“Russia in Asia and Asians in Russia,” SAIS Review, Winter-Spring 2000.
“Prospects for the Sino-Russian Partnership: Views from Moscow and the Russian Far East,” Journal of East Asian Affairs, Summer-Fall 1998, pp. 418-451.
“The Environment and Development in the Russian Far East,” Issues and Studies (Taipei), February 1996, pp. 99-122.
“Migration and Economic Security: Chinese Labor Migrants in the Russian Far East,” in eds. Tsuneo Akaha and Anna Vassilieva eds., Crossing National Borders: International Migration and Human Security Issues in Northeast Asia, forthcoming 2005.
“Russia in Inter-Korean Relations,” in Samuel S. Kim, ed. Inter-Korean Relations, (forthcoming Palgrave 2004).
“The Far East Federal District,” in eds. Robert W. Orttung and Peter Reddaway, Dynamics of Russian Politics: Putin’s Federal-Regional Reforms, (Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003).
“A New Era in Russian-North Korean Relations?” in Samuel S. Kim, ed., North Korea and Northeast Asia, (Boulder: Rowman&Littlefield, 2002).
“The Regional Dynamic in Russia’s Asia Policy in the 1990s,” in eds. Judith Thornton and Charles E. Ziegler, Russian Far East: A Region at Risk (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002).
“Chinese Perspectives on Cross-Border Relations,” in ed. Sherman Garnett, Rapprochement or Rivalry? (Washington, D.C.: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000).
“The Regional Factor in Sino-Soviet Relations, 1969-86,” in ed. Reneo Lukic, Rethinking International the Conflict in Communist and Post-Communist States, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.
“Whose Environment?: A Case Study of Forestry Policy in Russia's Maritime Province,” in eds. Stephen Kotkin and David Wolff, Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East, (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1995).
“Soviet and Post-Soviet Approaches to World Order,” in David Jacobsen, ed., Old Nations, New World: The Evolution of a New World Order, (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994).
“Brothers in Arms Again? Assessing the Sino-Russian Military Exercises,” PacNet No. 35, Pacific Forum/CSIS, August 18, 2005.
“Europe Shows ‘Soft Power’ in Iran-IAEA Row,” International Relations and Security Network (Zurich), November, 2003.
“China Eyes Russian Energy Projects,” Hong Kong Business, October 2003.
“Security Focus Pakistan,” Intersec (London), October 2003.
“Northeast Asia Rejoins the Silk Road: New Connections with Central Asia,” Asian Intelligence, September 2003.
“India Makes Strategic Inroads in Central Asia,” International Relations and Security Network (Zurich), August 2003.
“Sino-Russian Partnership since 9/11: Challenges and Prospects,” ERINA Report (Niigata, Japan) Vol. 53 August 2003.
“A New “Great Game” in Kyrgyzstan?” International Relations and Security Network (Zurich), July 2003.
“Forgotten Rim? The Russian Far East and the Asian Economy,” Asian Intelligence, November 2002.
“The East by West Trade Corridor: Myth and Reality,” ERINA Report (Niigata, Japan), No. 35, August 2000.
“Phoenix Rising from the Ashes? The Russian Far East and the August Crisis,”
The Harriman Review, Vol. 11, No. 4, June 1999, pp. 43-45.
“The Grass Is Greener: Russia's New Chinese Illegal Immigration Problem,”
The Asia-Pacific Magazine, Nos. 6-7, 1997, pp. 54-59.
Russian, French (fluent); Chinese/Mandarin (proficient).