international relations

Field:Political Science and International Relations
Country of origin: New Zealand
Period of stay at IIAS: December 9, 2007 – March 8, 2008
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Research topic: Politics in Pacific Asia
Field:Diplomatic and Political History
Country of origin: Osaka, Japan
Period of stay at IIAS: October 3, 2006 - October 2, 2007
Status: Affiliate Fellow
Home institute: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics Kobe University, Japan
Research topic: Prewar European-Japanese relations, 1931-41

Thomas S. Wilkins

Field: International Relations
Country of origin: UK/US
Period of stay at IIAS: 26/05/2008 - 13/07/2008
Status: Affiliated Fellow
Home institute: University of San Francisco / Center for the Pacific Rim
Research topic: Asia-Pacific Alliances / Security Architecture

Field:World Economics
Country of origin: China
Period of stay at IIAS: 1 August 2007 - 1 January 2008
Status: Affiliated fellow stationed at the IIAS Branch Office Amsterdam
Home institute: Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, China
Research topic: Theory and Practice of Regional Integration: A Comparative Study on the Cases of GCC and ASEAN with a Reference to EU
Field:International Politics, Asia-Pacific regional multilateral security mechanism
Country of origin: China
Period of stay at IIAS: February 2007 - January 2008
Status: Affiliate Fellow
Home institute: Dept. of Economics, Hangzhou University
Research topic: The Predicament of Current Asian-Pacific Regional Security Cooperation and its Way Out. European experience to Asia-Pacific multilateral security cooperation