Guest Contributors

Dibyesh Anand, University of Westminster. [Homepage]
Moving beyond the Blame Game: China-India Border Relations

G.E. Anderson is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at UCLA. His research focuses on state-owned enterprises, corporate governance and China’s auto industry. [Homepage]
The blurry line between public and private in China
How do Australia’s foreign investment rules apply to China?

Richard Baldwin is Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of CEPR’s Policy Portal VoxEU.org. [Homepage]
Trade and the G20 Agenda

Jagdish Bhagwati, Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. [Homepage]
Doha opportunity lost
Obama must fight the protectionist virus

J. Bruce Jacobs is Professor of Asian Languages and Studies and Director of the Taiwan Research Unit at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. [Homepage]
Typhoon Morakot and Taiwan: damaging Ma Ying-jeou’s presidency?

Giovanni Capannelli, Office of Regional Economic Integration, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila.
Asian regionalism: How does it compare to Europe’s?

Ann Capling is Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Arts, and President of the Australian Political Studies Association. [Homepage]
Multilateralising Regionalism: Australia’s Role in ‘Taming the Tangle’ of Preferential Trade Agreements

Bill Carmichael, Former Chairman, Industries Assistance Commission.
Interest groups and the WTO
Mortimer Review of Trade Policy: Unfinished Business
Transparency in micro-economic reform
Avoiding a global retreat to protectionism
The G20 commitment to resist protectionism

Jagjit S. Chadha is Professor of Economics at the University of Kent. [Homepage]
Is the love of finance the root of all evil?

Gerald Curtis is Burgess professor of political science at Columbia University and former director of its Weatherhead East Asian Institute. [Homepage]
Japan’s politicians lose their way at a bad time
Obama and East Asia: No Room for Complacency

Atanu Dey, Mumbai. Atanu Dey on India’s Development.
Of freedom, markets, and the future of India

Graeme Dobell has been reporting on Australian and international politics, foreign affairs and defence, and the Asia Pacific since 1975. [Homepage]
AusAID: Doing, not thinking

Wendy Dobson is Professor of Economics in the Joseph L Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in Canada. [Homepage]
The financial crisis and East Asia

David Dollar is the World Bank’s Country Director for China and Mongolia in the East Asia and Pacific Region, based in Beijing. [Homepage]
Reading tea leaves for signs of China’s recovery
Remarkable progress, remaining vulnerability among China’s poor
Zai jian ・Goodbye ・See you again: A look back on China’s progress upon leaving the World Bank

Barry Eichengreen Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. [Homepage]
The G20 and the crisis
Can Asia free itself from the IMF?

Donald K. Emmerson Director, Southeast Asia Forum, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University. [Homepage]
The good and the not so good news on Indonesia’s elections
Indonesia’s Obama, Washington’s Indonesia
ASEAN’s Pattaya problem
Obama’s trifecta: so far, so good
Three contexts of terror in Indonesia: Economic, political and personal

Saul Eslake, Chief Economist, ANZ Banking Group.
Implementing the G20 commitment to World Trade Reform

Paul Evans is Director, Program for Canada-Asia Policy Studies, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia. [Homepage]
Canada and China: Beyond Engagement

Nilan Fernando is The Asia Foundation’s Country Representative in Sri Lanka and is based in Colombo. [Homepage]
Sri Lanka: rising to the challenges after the war

Stephen FitzGerald was Australia’s first Ambassador to China, after the Whitlam Government established diplomatic relations with the PRC in 1972.
Learning to Live with China

Jeffrey Frankel, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. [Homepage]
An evaluation of the first 200 days of Obama economics

Ellen L. Frost is a Visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the National Defense University. [Homepage]
India’s role in East Asia: lessons from cultural and historical linkages

Kiichi Fujiwara, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo.
Northeast Asia and the chance of a new security architecture

Anthony Garnaut is an historian at the University of Melbourne.
Urumqi ethnic conflict and failure of the Chinese justice system

Stephen Grenville is a Director of AMP Capital Investors Limited, and an Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University. [Homepage]
Who’s to blame for the financial crisis?
G20: The case for Australia
Does the Global Financial Crisis need a Domestic or International Response?

Jeremy Gross is The Asia Foundation’s Elections Program Manager in Indonesia. [Homepage]
Reflections on the Bangladeshi National and Local Elections
The unexpected face of Indonesian politics

Mel Gurtov is Professor Emeritus of Political Science in the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University. [Homepage]
To talk or not to talk with North Korea

Cielito Habito is Professor of Economics and Director of the Ateneo Center for Economic Research and Development, Ateneo de Manila University.
The Philippine economy: that dreaded R word

Nina Hachigian is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. [Homepage]
Obama’s to-do list for China
Showing up in Asia
The three-ring G8 summit

Fergus Hanson is a Research Fellow with the Lowy Institute. [Homepage]
Chinese aid in the Pacific: Playing the short game

Ryokichi Hirono is Emeritus Professor at Seikei University and has served on numerous advisory committees of the Japanese government. [Homepage]
The West’s protectionist past and Chinalco-Rio Tinto

Virginia Horscroft is an independent development consultant and has worked extensively in the Pacific Islands.
Glimmers of hope for the Pacific?
Fiji’s Long Shadow

Denis Hussey is Chairman of the Tasman Tranparency Group.
Rudd must act on trade reform

James Ingram, career Australian diplomat and international civil servant, James Ingram was Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme from 1982 – 92, with the personal rank of Under Secretary General.
Reflecting on the world food summit

Takashi Inoguchi is Professor of Political Science and president-elect of newly established University of Niigata Prefecture. [Homepage]
Japan desperately needs a grand strategy

Takatoshi Ito is Professor, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo. [Homepage]
Can Japan survive and overcome global recession?

Kazumasa Iwata is Head of the Economic and Social Research Institute in Japan’s Cabinet Office and formerly Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan. [Homepage]
Bubbles and demographics: Is China following Japan and the US?

Pan Jiahua, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Research Centre for Sustainable Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). [Homepage]
Dispelling illusions on China and climate change

Ken Jimbo is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, Tokyo. [Homepage]
Rejecting high-risk coexistence with North Korea

Masahiro Kawai and Ganeshan Wignaraja, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo. [Homepage]
The Asian noodle bowl: is it serious for business?

Steve Keen, Associate Professor, School of Economics and Finance, University of Western Sydney. [Homepage]
Why neoclassical economics is dead

Brendan Kelly, former Country Director for China Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense, United States. [Homepage]
Brazil, Russia, India, and China (the BRICs) throw down the gauntlet on monetary system reform

David Kelly is Professor of China Studies at the China Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney. [Homepage]
Demons that possess America and China

Renu Kohli is a New Delhi based economist. She was formerly with the Reserve Bank of India and the International Monetary Fund. [Homepage]
India: Monetary policy dilemmas

Brian P. Klein, International Affairs Fellow in Japan, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). [Homepage]
Can China lift Japan out of recession?

Daniel Kliman is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University, and a Japan policy fellow with the CSIS Japan Chair. [Homepage]
China: Japan’s Rising Power Conundrum

Eric Knight is a PhD candidate in environmental economics at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
Carbon emission targets and investment in clean technologies

Louis Kuijs, Senior Economics in the World Bank’s China Office. [Homepage]
China: what long-term policies and reforms are needed to sustain growth?

Nagesh Kumar, director-general, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), India. [Homepage]
Emerging regional architecture in Asia

Andrei Lankov, Kookmin University, Seoul. [Homepage]
Pyongyang strikes back
No Rush to Talk With North Korea

Mario Lamberte is the Director of Research, Asian Development Bank Institute. [Homepage]
Some positive consequences of the Global Economic Crisis

Cheng Li is director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations at the Brookings Institution. [Homepage]
One party, two coalitions in China’s politics

Ed Lincoln Director of the Center for Japan-U.S. Business and Economic Studies and Clinnical Professor of Economics at New York University Stern School of Business. [Homepage]
Japan’s economic disaster: addressing some misperceptions

Humphrey McQueen is a freelance historian. [Homepage]
Darwin, Lincoln and the survival of the slave-masters

Koji Murata, Professor of Political Science, Doshisha University, Kyoto.
Managing the Japan-US alliance

Ann Marie Murphy is assistant professor at the John C Whitehead School of Diplomacy & International Relations, Seton Hall University, adjunct research fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, and an Asia Society associate fellow. [Homepage]
US gives a long overdue nod to Indonesia

Sunita Narain is Director of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), based in Delhi India. [Homepage]
Why Environmentalism Needs Equity

Geethanjali Nataraj is a Fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi. [Homepage]
FDI and Indian growth: the new paradigm
India and Japan: Increasing interest, declining inflows

Tomoko Okagaki, Senior Research Fellow, National Institute of Defence Studies, Japan. [Homepage]
Europe as a model of regionalism in the Asia-Pacific

Jonas Parello-Plesner is a Senior Advisor with the Danish Government on Asian affairs.[Homepage]
The G-2: no good for China and for world governance
KIA – Asia’s middle powers on the rise?

Tejaswini Patil, University of South Australia and South Asia Masala. [Homepage]
Opportunistic crimes or racist attacks?

Yuen Pau Woo, President, Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada. [Homepage]
China Inc. comes to Canada

Peter A. Petri is a senior fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, the Carl J. Shapiro Professor of International Finance, and former dean of the International Business School at Brandeis University. [Homepage]
Global response to economic crisis in the works

Richard Pomfret is Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide. [Homepage]
Too soon for obituaries: economics is alive and (reasonably) well

Sagar Prasai is The Asia Foundation’s Deputy Country Representative in Nepal. [Homepage]
Nepal: A Constituent Assembly with nowhere to run and not much room to move

Jia Qingguo is Professor in the School of International Studies at Peking University.
A Chinese view of Obama’s Inaugural Address
Realizing the Asia Pacific Community: geographic, institutional and leadership challenges

M. Govinda Rao Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi. [Homepage]
Reviving the world economy – G20 and beyond: the view from India

Joel Rathus is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Asian Studies, University of Adelaide.
The Chiang Mai Initiative: China, Japan and financial regionalism
Japan, the DPJ and regional financial arrangements

Lex Rieffel is Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. [Homepage]
Focus on what Asia wants: the G20 London Summit

Ryo Sahashi, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo.
A three-tier approach to Asian regional architecture
Hatoyama’s New Path and Washington’s Anxiety

Razeen Sally, Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels and Professor, London School of Economics.
The WTO: what next after Doha?
1970s Déjà Vu: Creeping protectionism is on the rise
ASEAN Charteritis
India hype
India after the elections

Andrew Sheng holds the Tun Ismail Ali Chair at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya and is the former Chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. [Homepage]
Global financial crisis and Asian responsibilities

Takashi Shiraishi is President of the Institute of Developing Economies – Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO), and Professor of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.[Homepage]
Indonesian politics: prospects for the coming presidential election

Andrew W. Shoyer is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Sidley Austin LLP and chairs the firm’s international trade and dispute resolution practice. [Homepage]
US climate change bill – how international provisions work

Scott Snyder is the Director of the Center for U.S.-Korea Policy at The Asia Foundation and a Senior Associate at Pacific Forum CSIS. [Homepage]
What’s driving Pyongyang?

Edward Steinfield is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Industrial Performance Center, MIT. [Homepage]
China: The paradox of ‘greener plants and grayer skies’

Arvind Subramanian is Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) and Center for Global Development, and Senior Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University. [Homepage]
The G-20: An Idea from India

Kim Sung-han is Professor of International Relations at the Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University, in Seoul.
The Lee-Obama summit: alliance for peace and unification
Keeping the KORUS FTA alive

Han Sung-Joo is Professor Emeritus, Korea University and a former minister of foreign affairs. [Homepage]
North Korea: strategic thinking, strategic response

Shinji Takagi is Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University. [Homepage]
The G-20 and IMF governance reform

Kenji Takita is Professor of International Relations and American Foreign Policy at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan.
Obama and Japan

Hitoshi Tanaka is a Senior Fellow at the Japan Centre for International Exchange.
Getting China Policy Right
A new vision for the Japan-US alliance
The North Korea nuclear crisis: Five guiding principles

Fang-Fang Tang, Professor, China Centre for Economic Research (CCER), Peking University.
Branding in China

Takashi Terada is a Professor of International Relations in the Institute of Asian Studies at Waseda University. [Homepage]
The rise of China: the impetus behind Japanese regionalism

Carlyle A. Thayer is Professor of Politics in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra. [Homepage]
Kevin Rudd’s multi-layered Asia Pacific Community initiative

David G. Timberman is a consultant to the Asia Society’s Policy program and to the Asia program of the National Democratic Institute. [Homepage]
Yudhoyono’s re-election: Can SBY and Indonesia up their game?

Mun-Heng Toh, Associate Professor, Business School, National University of Singapore. [Homepage]
ASEAN+6 as a step towards an Asian Economic Community

Nadeem Ul Haque is the Division Chief of the Asia region IMF Institute. [Homepage]
Capacity, rent-seeking and transfers in Pakistan

Gerry van Klinken is a research fellow with the KITLV research programme. [Homepage]
Indonesian anti-corruption efforts enter minefields

Brett Williams Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney. [Homepage]
The Korea-Australia FTA: obstacle or building block?

Yu Yongding is the Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Panda Bonds could help China avoid the risks of US Treasury Bonds

Liqing Zhang is Dean of the School of Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing. [Homepage]
Is the pessimism about the Chinese economy warranted?

ANU Occasional Authors

Emma Aisbett Lecturer, Graduate Program in Environmental Management and Development Crawford School and Research Fellow, Economics Program of Research School of Social Sciences. [Homepage]
China’s rejection of Coke’s juice takeover and the question of legal ‘rights of establishment’

Coral Bell is a Visiting Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University.
The end of the Vasco de Gama era

Alison Broinowski is a Visiting Fellow at ANU and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong. [Homepage]
Why do we want an Asia Pacific Community?

Ian Castles is a Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University.
PPP is not ‘basically a con’
Measuring China’s size and power

Jenny Corbett is Executive Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre, ANU. [Homepage]
What do we know about Japan?

Robert Cribb, President of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, and Senior Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. [Homepage]
The rise of the Asian century

Bina D’Costa is a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Governance and Justice, RegNet, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU.
The banality of violence in Bangladesh

Paul Dibb is Emeritus Professor and Chairman of the Advisory Board, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU. [Homepage]
Geopolitical Implications of the Global Financial Crisis

Ron Duncan Emeritus Professor, Crawford School of Economics and Government,ANU. [Homepage]
PNG: Trade Policy and Trade Agreements
PNG: FTAs helping or hindering trade?

Stewart Firth, The Pacific Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), ANU. [Homepage]
Bainimarama’s high-stakes game

James J Fox Professor, Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program, ANU. [Homepage]
Indonesia’s parliamentary elections: a first glance

Jon Fraenkel, Fellow, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, ANU. [Homepage]
Silence after abrogation of Fiji’s 2007 Constitution

Stuart Harris is Emeritus Professor, Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
Taiwan and Hu Jintao’s end-year overtures
Taiwan, China, and the WHO

Hal Hill H.W. Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies and Deputy Convener, The Arndt-Corden Division of Economics, ANU. [Homepage]
The financial crisis and what’s in store for Southeast Asia
ASEAN economies on the slide?
Indonesia: cautious optimism
Indonesia’s new leadership: the Australian connection

Ben Hillman teaches political science at the ANU’s Crawford School of Economics and Government and serves as Chair of the Eastern Tibet Training Institute. [Homepage]
50 years on, what do we know about Tibet?
Clarity on negotiating the Tibetan issue

Ronald Huisken is Senior Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. [Homepage]
Saga of de-nuclearising North Korea
Is Pyongyang reacting to or shaping events?
Multilateralism in the Asia Pacific: What might have been, and what could be

Robin Jeffrey is a Professor at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. [Homepage]
The old ghosts of India show their faces again

Hyung-a Kim is Associate Professor and director of the Australia-Korea Leadership Forum at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. [Homepage]
South Korea’s ‘Bulldozer’ seeks a partner in Rudd

Tao (Sherry) Kong is a Research Fellow, Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. [Homepage]
Land at the heart of China’s reform
Is there a Carrefour monopoly in Indonesian retailing?

Scott MacWilliam is a Sessional Lecturer, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University. [Homepage]
The politics of constitutionalism in Fiji
The folly of legalism for Fiji’s people

William Maley is Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, ANU. [Homepage]
The Afghan presidential elections: some scenarios
Afghanistan on on a precipice

Neville Maxwell is a Visiting Fellow at the ANU’s Contemporary China Centre. [Homepage]
Renewed tension on the India-China border: Who’s to blame?

Leonid Petrov is a Research Associate, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. [Homepage]
Neo-cons in Pyongyang
Another sign of North Korea’s insecurity
Pyongyang turns back the clock

Will Steffen is Executive Director, ANU Climate Change Institute. [Homepage]
Garnaut and keeping up with the science of climate change
Atmospheric brown clouds

Ligang Song Associate Professor, and Director China Economy and Business Program, Crawford School of Economics and Government, ANU. [Homepage]
Making the stimulus package work in China

Shandre Thangavelu is an Associate Professor at the National Univeristy of Singapore, and a Visiting Fellow at the Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University.
Riding the global economic crisis in Singapore

William Tow is a Professor in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU. [Homepage]
Assessing the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue

Peter Van Ness is Visiting Fellow, Contemporary China Centre and Department of International Relations, ANU. [Homepage]
Torture and American leadership
Under Obama, realism ain’t so realistic anymore
Stick to the Six Party Talks on North Korea

Trevor Wilson is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
Burma in 2008
Aung San Suu Kyi and the Generals

ANU Graduate Students

Gregore Lopez, Doctoral Candidate, Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University.
Anwar’s victory boosts Malaysian democracy
Should Pakatan Rakyat bide its time in Malayasia
Malaysia: the political tide runs out
Politics without priorities in Malaysia

Tomohiko Satake, PhD candidate in Strategic Studies, Australian National University.
Misconceptions about Japan’s foreign policy posture
What’s wrong with Japan’s alliance with America?

Xunpeng Shi is a PhD candidate in Economics at the Australian National University.
Are there practical substitutes for coal in China?

Huw Slater is a Masters candidate in Asian Studies at the Australian National University.
Making China’s coal clean?

Special Authors

Rod Eddington is CEO of J P Morgan, Australia, Chair Designate of the ANZ Bank Board, a member of the Board of News Ltd and Head of Infrastructure Australia.
Australia: not spared but prepared to manage the worst

Pang Eng Fong is on the Faculty of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University and was Dean of the School from 2006 to 2008. He was formerly Singapore’s Ambassador to the European Union.
Singapore: positioned to weather the global shock

Quah Boon Huat is a Research Fellow at the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER).
Malaysia: a year of economic and political reversals

Ishrat Husain is Dean and Director of the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi.
Pakistan: A year of extraordinary challenge

Pisit Leeahtam is Dean of the Faculty of Economics at Chiang Mai University in Thailand, and Head of the Macroeconomics and Finance Working Group of the Thai National Economic and Social Advisory Council.
Thailand: the end of a year of political troubles

Iwao Nakatani is former Chairman of Sony, and now Dean of the Renaissance Centre, Tama University, Japan.
Japan: change in paradigm to rescue the ailing economy

Doan Hong Quang is Senior Economist at the World Bank, and was formerly a Senior Research Fellow at the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi.
Vietnam: a switch from growth to stability

Chia Siow Yue is a Senior Research Fellow at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs.
Singapore: Gearing for recovery

Soogil Young is President of the National Strategy Institute (NSI), an independent think thank, in Seoul, as well as Chairman of the Korea National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (KOPEC).
South Korea: a test of political leadership

Yoon Young-kwan is a Professor at Seoul National University, and formerly Foreign Minister of South Korea.
South Korea: Disappointed expectations but hopes head north

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