Aidar Amrebayev graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Currently, he is the Head of the Center of Applied Political Science and International Studies, Almaty, Kazakhstan and a Visiting Professor of Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China, and S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) NTU, Singapore. Also, he is a Coordinator from Kazakhstan in the Analytical Forum of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and CICA (Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia) Forum under the SIIS (China). Additionally, he is the member of the Kazakh–Chinese and Kazakh–Russian Advisory Councils. He has over 120 publications in Kazakh, Russian, English, Chinese and Turkish. His research interests are in the fields of national identity in Kazakhstan, comparative studies of political culture, and regional studies. His professional domain includes preparation of analytical reports on domestic and foreign policies of Kazakhstan. [email protected]
Alessandro Arduino is the co-director of the Security & Crisis Management International Center at the Shanghai Academy of Social Science (SASS-UniTO) and external affiliate at the Lau China Institute, King’s College, London. Dr. Arduino’s two decades of experience in China encompasses security analysis and crisis management. His main research interests include China’s political economy, Sino-Central Asia relations, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Private Military Security Companies, China’s security and foreign policy. He is the author of several books and he has published policy papers and commentaries in various journals in Italian, English and Chinese languages. His latest book is China Private Army: Protecting the New Silk Road (2018). [email protected]
Ambrish Dhaka is Associate Professor at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He gives MPhil courses on Afghanistan Studies. He has 19 years of teaching experience. He specializes in Geopolitics, South Central Asian Studies and GIS. He has supervised 8 PhDs and 24 MPhils successfully. He has travelled to China, Russia, Israel, Afghanistan and UK on academic pursuits. He has published a number of international papers on geopolitics, strategic studies and ethnic approaches to Afghanistan. He also introduced the GIS for International Studies as a new dimension to learn in the university. [email protected]
Dan Liu is currently a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Social Science, University of Macau. Her major is international relations, and she is a Research Fellow at the Center for Canadian Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Her research interests are in the areas of confidence building measures, security issues in East Asia and China–Canada relations. [email protected]
Gancheng Zhao, Senior Fellow and Director of Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, is engaged in study of Indian politics and diplomacy, China’s India policy, China–India relations, South Asian security and China’s South Asia policy, with numerous papers and articles published on journals and media in China. He also actively participates in the making of mass media programs on China’s external strategy and China’s periphery policy. He graduated with a major in English in Shanghai and got a master’s degree from SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, in the U.S. [email protected]
Hongzhou Zhang is a Research Fellow with the China Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His main research interests include China and regional resources security (food, water and energy), China’s fishing policies and maritime security. He is an author/editor of three books, including Securing the ‘Rice Bowl’: China and Global Food Security (Palgrave, 2018), China and Transboundary Water Politics in Asia (Routledge, 2017, with Dr. Li Mingjiang) and China’s Global Quest for Resources: Energy, Food and Water (Routledge, 2016, with Dr. Wu Fengshi). In addition, his papers have appeared in peer-reviewed journals including the Global Policy, Globalizations, International Journal of Water Resources Development, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Marine Policy, Pacific Review, WIREs Water, the Copenhagen Journal of Asia Studies, Harvard Asia Quarterly, the ISPI Analysis and Southeast Asia Studies, Cambridge Journal of China Studies and others. [email protected]
Nazia Hussain is a Research Analyst in the Executive Deputy Chairman’s Office, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She holds a BA in International Politics and History from Jacobs University, Germany, and an MSc in Asian Studies from RSIS, Singapore. Her research interests include Sino-Indian Relations, Chinese Foreign and Security Policy, ASEAN, Asia Pacific Security, Insurgency in Northeast India and its trans-national linkages. [email protected]
Penghong Cai is a Senior Fellow from Foreign Policy Study and a Faculty at Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), Shanghai, China. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of international relations in Asia with an emphasis on maritime security, China’s relations with East and Southeast Asia, regional cooperation and integration, APEC and national strategy in Asia. He graduated from Fudan University, Shanghai with a degree in International Politics in the year 1982. [email protected]; [email protected]
Qichao Wang is a PhD candidate at the University of Macau, majoring in International Relations. His research interests are China–ASEAN relations and China’s foreign policy and Macau studies. He was a Visiting Fellow in the Center for Strategies and International Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia, from April 2014 to November 2014 and also held a higher diploma in peace research co-issued by the University of Oslo and PRIO (Peace Research Institution, Oslo) in 2012. Besides, he is involved in many occasions related to peace and conflict, the workshop facilitator for the International Institution of Peace Studies (Thailand), Asia Muslim Network and the 2012 Hiroshima August 8th Peace Ceremony in Japan. His latest publication in 2017 addressed China’s policy about the Uyghur ethnic group and its international influence. [email protected]
Raghavendra Mishra, a serving Indian Naval officer, was a Research Fellow at the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi, at the time of writing this chapter. The views expressed are those of the author and bear no relation to the official/institutional policies. [email protected]
Ru Sun is a Research Professor at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary International Relations, a leading monthly journal of China’s IR studies. Previously, she was a Research Professor at the Institute of American Studies and Deputy Director at the Institute of World Political Studies at CICIR. She received both her BA and MA from the Department of International Politics, Peking University, and received her PhD in International Relations from CICIR. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Groningen and also a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. She co-authored Humanitarian Intervention: Western Theory and Practice (Current Affairs Press, 2003) and authored Ad Hoc Multilateralism: Regional Cooperation on North Korean Nuclear Issue (Current Affairs Press, 2009). She contributed book chapters, including China–U.S. Relations under the Framework of United Nations, U.S. Global Strategy after 9·11, New Analysis of China–U.S. Strategic Relationship, Northeast Asia Security Policy and Security Cooperation Initiatives, Comparative Studies on Nuclear Strategies, etc. [email protected]
Xin Jin