August 3, 2001 - Security Issues: Strategic Perceptions
PARTICIPANTS and TESTIMONY: (click on name to read testimony)
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Mr.
Richard Fisher, Senior Fellow, Jamestown
Foundation (formerly Director, Asian Studies Center,
Heritage Foundation)
(click here for Mr. Fisher's expanded biography)
- Dr. Bates Gill, Director, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, Brookings Institute Board of Directors, U.S.-China Policy Foundation and American Association of Chinese Studies; Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Overseas Research Fellow, Korean Institute for Defense Analyses; former Project Leader, Project on Security and Arms Control in East Asia, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute; former Director, East Asia Nonproliferation Project, Monterey Institute of International Studies; former Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics, Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies; former Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow; former Albert Gallatin Fellow. Education: B.A., Albion College, 1981; M.A., University of Virginia, 1988; Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1991
- Dr. Michael Pillsbury is currently an Associate Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, where he is sponsored by DoDís Office of Net Assessment. During the Reagan administration Dr. Pillsbury was the Assistant Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning; under President Bush he was Special Assistant for Asian Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, reporting to Andrew W. Marshall, Director of Net Assessment. Previously he served as a defense analyst for the Rand Corporation and on the staff of several U.S. Senate Committees. He has taught graduate courses in Chinese foreign policy at Georgetown University, UCLA, and USC. Dr. Pillsbury studied Mandarin Chinese for 2 years at the Stanford Center in Taipei, Taiwan, under a doctoral dissertation fellowship of the National Science Foundation. He earned a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
- Mr. Timothy Thomas is an analyst at the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He retired from the U.S. Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in the summer of 1993. Mr. Thomas received a B.S. from West Point and an M.A. from the University of Southern California. He was a U.S. Army Foreign Area Officer who specialized in Soviet/Russian studies. His military assignments included serving as the Director of Soviet Studies at the United States Army Russian Institute (USARI) in Garmisch, Germany; as an inspector of Soviet tactical operations under CSCE; and as a Brigade S&2 and company commander in the 82nd Abn Division. Mr. Thomas has done extensive research and publishing in the areas of peacekeeping, information war, and political & military affairs. He is the assistant editor of the journal European Security; an adjunct professor at the U.S. Army's Eurasian Institute; an adjunct lecturer at the USAF Special Operations School; and a member of two Russian organizations, the Academy of International Information, and the Academy of Natural Sciences.
- Dr. Larry Wortzel, Director, Asian Studies Center, Heritage Foundation, has focused on security, defense, political and economic issues since 1970. He served the U.S. Army in Korea, China, Thailand, and Singapore, including more than four years at the American Embassy in Beijing. He was the Assistant Army AttachÈ in China during the Tiananmen Massacre and in 1995 returned to China as the Army AttachÈ. He has also been a strategist for Asia for the Department of the Army, served on the international security policy staff of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and, most recently, as an Army Colonel, has been Director of the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College. His books include Class in China: Stratification in a Classless Society (1987), China's Military Modernization: International Implications (1988), and Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Military History (1999). He is a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College, the U.S. Army War College, and attended the National University of Singapore. Dr. Wortzel earned his B.A. from Columbus College, Georgia, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii.