• Ph.D., University of Hawaii, Manoa
• M. A., California State University, Long Beach
• B. A., University of California, Irvine

• At SUA since 2005
• 2000 - 2004, Assoc. Prof., Naval Postgraduate School
• 1998 - 2000, Fulbright Prof., Chinese Foreign Affairs University
• 1993 - 1996, Visiting Fellow, East-West Center
• 1992 - 1993, Fulbright  Prof., Far Eastern State University, Vladivostok
• 1991 - 1992, Assist. Prof., Colorado College

• Asian multilateralism
• Chinese oil politics
• US-Asian relations

Selected Invited Lectures

• "U.S.-China energy relations and energy institution building in the Asia-Pacific," presented at the University of Denver's Center for China-US Cooperation's 7^th International Symposium, "China, US, and Regional Cooperation and Institution-building in the Asia-Pacific, May 2009.
• "The Multiple Levels of Sino-Russian Energy Relations," presented at Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Silk Road Studies Program conference "Sino-Russian Relations: Old Patterns, New Realities," SAIS, John Hopkins University, May 2009
• "Chinese Oil Politics and the Formation of an East Asian Energy Community," one of the keynote presentations at the Fourth Graduate Seminar on China, organized by Universities Service Centre for China Studies and CUHK-Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, January 8-12, 2008. 
• "A U.S. Perspective on Asia's Energy Security Development," paper presented at conference, "Spotlight on Asia's Energy and Security Challenges - A Multilateral Response?" organized by Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of Silk Road Studies Program, John Hopkins University & Uppsala University, & S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore, September 2007.
• "Reflections on Northeast Asian Energy Cooperation," presented at "Russia on the Pacific: Oil, Gas, and Strategic Security" symposium at the Pacific Basin Institute, Pomona College, November 2006.
• "Sino-Russian Energy Cooperation," conference organized by the Global Dialogue on Natural Resources & Center for Strategic & International Studies, "Pressing Questions in the Race to the Future," April 2006, Washington, DC.
• "The Dilemmas of China's Energy Governance: Recentralization and Regional Cooperation," presented at the Center on China's Transnational Relations, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, November 2005.
• "Constituting the Uyghur in the War on Terrorism: The Geopolitics of Identity Formation," presented on panel "China and the Antiterrorist War: Is Washington Legitimizing Repression against China's Muslims?" Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington DC, May 2002.
• "China and Russia in the Construction of a Northeast Asian Energy Community," presented at conference on "Russia-China-Japan in Northeast Asia," hosted by Institute of History, Archeology, and Ethnography Russian Academy of  Sciences, Vladivostok, Sept. 2000.
• "US-Asian Differences over the Regional Maritime Security Initiative," at conference "Focus Asia," Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden, November, 2004"
• "Angarsk as a Challenge for the East Asian Energy Community," presented at conference "Northeast Asian Security: Mixture of Traditional and Untraditional Security," organized by the Chinese People's University & London School of Economics, Beijing, April 2004"

 Selected Publications

• "Japan and the East Asian Maritime Security Order: Prospects for Trilateral and Multilateral Cooperation," Asian Perspective vol. 33 no. 3 (2009): 107-149.
• "Russia's Breakthrough into the Asia-Pacific: China's Role," International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (2009).
• "Energy Security Cooperation in Asia and the Role of the United States," in Energy and Security Cooperation in Asia: Challenges and Prospects, Christopher Len & Alvin Chew, eds. Stockholm-Nacka: Institute for Security and Development Policy, 2009.
• "East Asian Energy Cooperation: China's Expanding Role," China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, Volume 6, No. 3 (2008): 141-168.
• "Chinese and ASEAN Responses to the U.S. Regional Maritime Security Initiative," in China Turns to Multilateralism: Foreign Policy and Regional Security, Guoang Wu, ed. (Routledge, 2007),p. 127-146.
•  "Xinjiang" and "Heilongjiang" in 'Das grosse China-Lexicon,' Brunhild Staiger ed. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 2003, 2006, 2008 eds.
• “Islam and Ethnic Minorities in Central Asia: the Uyghurs,” in Islam, Oil & Geo-politics: Central Asia After September 11, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)
• "The Dilemmas of China's Energy Governance: Recentralization and Regional Cooperation," 'China Eurasia Forum Quarterly' (special issue on energy & security) vol. 3 no. 3 (Nov. 2005): 55-79. 
• “ASEAN Plus Three in the Construction of an East Asian Regional Order,” in Asia in The New Millennium: APISA First Congress Proceedings, (Marshall Cavendish, 2005)
• “The Political Implications of Heilongjiang’s Industrial Structure,” in Rethinking China’s Provinces, John Fitzgerald, ed. (Routledge 2002)
• "Crouching Oil Dragons-Hidden Gas Bears: Sino-Russian Oil & Gas Relations in a Northeast Asian Energy Community," in 'Dalnii Vostok Rossii i severo-vostochnaya azia [Russian Far East and Northeast Asia],' Sergey Sevastionov, ed., Vladivostok 2002, p. 39-58.
• "China & the US: Defining the Strategic Constructive Partnership," in 'China, US, Japan, and Russia in a changing World,' Zhang Yunling and Gou Weihong, eds. Beijing: Social Sciences Documentation Publishing House, September 2000. [The proceedings of an International conference organized by the Asia-Pacific Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences]
• “The Role of East Asia in US-China Relations,” Asian Survey v42 n 3 (May/June 2002): 1067-1085.
•  "China's Intentions for Russian and Central Asian Oil and Gas,' National Bureau of Asian Research, NBR Analysis v 9 n 2 (March 1998).
• "Nesting the Sino-Russian Border and the Tumen Project in the Asia-Pacific: Heilongjiang's Regional Relations," Asian Perspective v 20 n 2 (fall-winter 1996): 265-299.
• "China and the Asia-Pacific: Need for a Grand Strategy," Asian Survey v36 n 11 (November 1996): 1067-1085.
• "The Greater Vladivostok Project: Transnational Linkages in Regional Economic Planning," Pacific Affairs v 67 n 4 (February 1995): 513-532. 
• "Xinjiang and The Great Islamic Circle: The Impact of Transnational Forces on Chinese Regional Economic Planning," China Quarterly no. 133 (1993): 130-151. 
• "Socialist Integration and Energy Regimes," Pacific Review  v 3 n 1 (1990): '23-24' 
• "Socialist Marketization in East Asia: Locating the Chinese Experience," in Market Economics and Political Change: Comparing China and Mexico, Timothy Cheek & Juan Lindao, eds. (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998)

• Introduction to Pacific Basin 
• International Relations of Pacific Asia
• Political & Social Change in Pacific Asia
• U.S. Foreign Policy
• Politics of China

• Pacific Basin Research Center Award, Summer 2006
• Fulbright Award, China, 1998-2000
• IREX Award, 2000
• Social Science Research Council, 1994
• Fulbright Award, Russia, 1992-93
• East-West Center Award, 1985-87
• C.K. Soo Young Hwang Foundation Award, 1985

•  Learning Cluster: US-Japan-China Trilateral Relations, January 2008, Chinese Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, China 
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• 'Learning Cluster: Asia-Pacific Civil Society: Local Networks - Building Civil Society in Asia-Pacific, May 2006'
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• 'Learning Cluster on Ethnic Conflict & Conflict Resolution in Pacific Asia, January 2007'
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• INTS 370 Politics of China class - Webcast of simulation of crisis management in US-China -Japan-Taiwan relations 10am to 12:30PM November 28, 2007 Pauling 216 Soka University of America: Click Here
• US Foreign Policy: Videos on North Korea and El Salvador - Click Here for Video  
• The Challenge of the Introductory Course on the Pacific Basin.  Presented at American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference, February 2008, San Jose, California: Click Here
• UN International Peace Day
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