Speaker biographies
Gerard Alexander is a National Research Initiative visiting scholar at AEI, and is on sabbatical as an associate professor of political science at the University of Virginia. His research has primarily been on democratic transitions and democratic consolidation. He is author of the book Sources of Democratic Consolidation (2002) published by Cornell University Press. He has written about the role of electoral laws and other institutions in several scholarly articles and academic papers, including in Comparative Political Studies and the Journal of Theoretical Politics. He has also written articles on democratization in other venues such as the National Interest, The Weekly Standard, and the new issue of Policy Review (December 2005–January 2006).
Nicholas Eberstadt is the Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy at AEI and senior adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) in Seattle. He serves on the advisory board of the Korea Economic Institute of America and is a founding member of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Mr. Eberstadt regularly consults for governmental and international organizations, including the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. State Department, USAID, and World Bank. He has published over 300 studies and articles in scholarly and popular journals, mainly on topics in demography, international development, and east Asian security. His dozen-plus books and monographs include The Poverty of Communism (Transaction, 1988), The Population of North Korea (Institute for East Asian Studies, 1992), The Tyranny of Numbers (AEI Press, 1995), The End of North Korea (AEI Press, 1999), Korea's Future and the Great Power (National Bureau of Asian Research, 2001) and the forthcoming North Korea's Economy Between Crisis and Catastrophe (Transaction Books, 2006).
Ying Ma is a National Research Initiative fellow at AEI, where she studies international law, sovereignty, and Asia. Ms. Ma has worked on China-related issues for the Congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and for the Council on Foreign Relations. She has also managed corporate communications for Sina.com, the first mainland Chinese Internet company to be listed on NASDAQ. Ms. Ma has written for The American Enterprise, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Policy Review, Los Angeles Times, and other publications.
Arthur Nelson Waldron is vice president of the International Assessment and Strategy Center, and Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is on the board of directors at the Jamestown Foundation and Freedom House, and is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He served as the director of the Asian studies program at the American Enterprise Institute from 1996 to 2003. He has served as a commissioner on the U.S.-China Security Review Commission and a professor of strategy and policy at the Naval War College, and has taught east Asian studies at both Brown and Princeton Universities. He is the author of From War to Nationalism: China's Turning Point, 1924–1925 (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth (Cambridge University Press, 1989), as well as a number of books in Chinese.
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