Speaker Biographies

November 1, 2005

Evelyn Goh is assistant professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She was educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, and completed a doctorate in international relations at Nuffield College, Oxford in 2001. Her main research interests lie in the areas of U.S. foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and the security and international relations of the Asia-Pacific. She is the author of Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961-1974: From Red Menace to Tacit Ally (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), and has also published on the diplomatic history of U.S.-China relations; contemporary U.S. foreign policy; American and Chinese strategy in the Asia-Pacific; and environmental security in East Asia. She was awarded a 2004 Southeast Asia Fellowship at the East-West Center in Washington D.C., and published a Policy Studies monograph entitled ‘Meeting the China Challenge: The U.S. and Southeast Asian Regional Security Strategies’ in May 2005. She is currently engaged in research for a project examining resource security and Sino-Southeast Asian relations and is authoring a new book on ‘Understanding China.’ Beginning January 1, 2006, she will be a university lecturer in international relations at St. Anne’s College, Oxford.

Roy D. Kamphausen is director of National Security Affairs at the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). He is responsible for overseeing and guiding all of NBR’s efforts that pertain to U.S. national security interests in Asia. Before joining NBR, Mr. Kamphausen spent 20 years in the U.S. Army – a career that concluded with an assignment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) as country director for China-Taiwan-Mongolia Affairs. Prior postings included positions on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, first as an intelligence analyst and, later, as China Branch chief in the Directorate for Strategic Plans and Policy (J5). As an Army China Foreign Area Officer (FAO), he served two tours at the Defense Attaché Office of the U.S. Embassy in the People's Republic of China. Mr. Kamphausen has the unusual distinction of having served in both intelligence and policy positions on issues related to China for both the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of Defense. His published works include a chapter, co-authored with Michael Swaine, on Taiwan’s military modernization found in Strategic Asia 2005-06: Military Modernization in an Era of Uncertainty, and an essay, co-authored with NBR Research Associate, John Kemmer, entitled “U.S. Defense Policy and Implications for the Asia-Pacific.” His chapter on China’s National Defense Education will appear in a forthcoming RAND-Center for Naval Analyses edited volume.

Sheldon W. Simon is professor of political science and faculty associate of the Center for Asian Studies and Programs in Southeast Asian Studies at Arizona State University where he has been a faculty member for 30 years. He is also chairman of the Southeast Asian Studies Advisory Board and senior advisor to the National Bureau of Asian Research. A specialist on Asian security, Simon is the author or editor of nine books and well over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters. His most recent books are two edited volumes—Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia: Disrupting Violence (Routledge, forthcoming 2006) and The Many Faces of Asian Security (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). He is the Southeast Asia chapter author for all five NBR annual volumes of Strategic Asia and regularly writes the “U.S.-Southeast Asia” chapter for the Pacific Forum’s E-Journal Comparative Connections. In recent years, Mr. Simon has held research grants from the U.S. Institute of Peace, the W. Alton Jones Foundation, and the U.S. Pacific Command. He also regularly consults with the State and Defense Departments.

Claude E. Barfield is a resident scholar and the director of science and technology policy studies at AEI. He is the author or editor of a number of books on trade and science policy, including Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization (AEI Press, 2001). In 1999, he coauthored Tiger by the Tail: China and the World Trade Organization (AEI Press) with Mark Groombridge. Before coming to AEI, he served in the Ford administration, on the staff of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and as a co-staff director of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.

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