Contributors

Integrated Deterrence Volume 48, Issue 2, 2023

BRIG. GEN. GLENN T. HARRIS is the deputy director of Global Operations for the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. He is the command lead for nuclear operations and responsible for the day-to-day readiness of U.S. nuclear command and control and strategic deterrent forces. He is also responsible for synchronizing component, joint and coalition operations, and for directing assigned forces to achieve USSTRATCOM and national objectives. 

U.S. ARMY MAJ. JOHN YANIKOV is the Military Information Support Operations (MISO) branch chief in USSTRATCOM’s Global Operations Directorate. As command lead, he oversees MISO planning, integration and execution. He received his commission into the Army through Millersville University in 2007 and earned a master’s degree in defense and strategic studies from the University of Texas, El Paso, in 2021. He has served in various positions, including as a company commander and battalion operations officer at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, under U.S. Army Special Operations Command.  Featured on Page 10

MAJ. BRYAN C. NEAL is a U.S. Army strategic intelligence officer in the Defense Attaché Service, supporting U.S. Defense Department operations in Oceania and the Philippines. He earned a master’s degree in strategic intelligence with a focus on China from the National Intelligence University in 2021. He was a field artillery officer at the tactical and operational levels for a decade, including serving as a fire support instructor at the U.S. Army Fires Center of Excellence at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.  Featured on Page 18

DR. SHALE HOROWITZ is a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has researched international and ethnic conflict, with an emphasis on East and South Asia, the politics of international trade and finance, and the politics of market transition and institutional change in post-communist countries and East Asia. He has conducted research in China, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.  Featured on Page 34

AIYANA PASCHAL is the public affairs officer at the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance in Hawaii. Paschal previously was a public affairs officer at U.S. Cyber Command in Fort Meade, Maryland. She served six years in the U.S. Navy as a mass communication specialist, attending the Defense Information School and serving at various commands, including aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and Defense Media Activity Pacific.  Featured on Page 48

PETER CONNOLLY is an expert in international relations, security and strategy who recently completed his dissertation at the Australian National University. He served 33 years as an Australian Army infantry officer, including in operational service in Afghanistan, Solomon Islands, Somalia and Timor-Leste. He also worked in Australia’s Parliament House and the U.S. Defense Department before directing international engagement for the Australian Army and its research center.  Featured on Page 56

National Sovereignty Volume 48, Issue 1, 2023

DR. JOHN HEMMINGS is senior director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the Pacific Forum International in Honolulu, Hawaii. Previously, he was an associate professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, also in Honolulu. He is an adjunct fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies and a James Cooke Fellow at the London-based Council on Geostrategy. He specializes in U.S. alliances and strategic competition with a focus on the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy.  Featured on Page 10

BRIG. GEN. FREDERICK CHOO is chief of staff – joint staff, inspector-general and chief sustainability officer of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). He enlisted in the SAF in 1998 and was trained as an armor officer. His previous appointments include commander, 3rd Singapore Division; commander, 8th Singapore Armoured Brigade; and commanding officer, 42nd Battalion Singapore Armoured Regiment. Choo also has held positions in the SAF and Singapore Ministry of Defence, including deputy director (Personnel Policy), Manpower Division; head of Joint Plans and Transformation; and chief of staff – general staff, Army Headquarters.  Featured on Page 30

DR. SHAUN NARINE is a professor of political science and international relations at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. His research focuses on the institutional, political and economic development of the Indo-Pacific, with an emphasis on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). He has published two books and many articles on ASEAN issues. He has also published on topics related to Canadian foreign policy in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. His current research focuses on issues of power transition in the international system and the effect of Western-oriented theoretical paradigms on policymakers.  Featured on Page 54

Asymmetric Threats Volume 47, Issue 4, 2022

DR. ARTHUR N. TULAK is a research faculty member at Georgia Tech Research Institute and serves as advisor on information operations for the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in Hawaii. His military experience as an executive-level leader in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Defense Department includes 18 years as an infantry officer and 14 years in information operations before retiring as a colonel. He holds a doctorate in education from the University of Southern California and master’s degrees in defense and strategic studies from Missouri State University and military arts and sciences from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.  Featured on Page 8

GREGORY B. POLING is a senior fellow with the Southeast Asia Program and director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is an expert on South China Sea disputes and conducts research on United States alliance relations, democracy and governance in Southeast Asia and maritime security across the Indo-Pacific. 

TABITHA GRACE MALLORY is founder and CEO of the China Ocean Institute and affiliate professor at the University of Washington Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. She specializes in Chinese foreign and environmental policy, is conducting research on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and global ocean governance and has published work on the PRC’s fisheries and oceans policy. 

HARRISON PRÉTAT is an associate fellow with the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at CSIS. His research includes maritime disputes, U.S.-China relations, international economic engagement in Asia and challenges to international institutions in the 21st century.  Featured on Page 24

BRAHMA CHELLANEY is a geostrategist, scholar, author and commentator. He is professor emeritus of Strategic Studies at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi; a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin; and an affiliate with the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization at King’s College London. He is the author of nine books, including the international bestseller, “Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India, and Japan,” and award winners such as “Water: Asia’s New Battleground,” published by Georgetown University Press, and “Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis,” published by Rowman & Littlefield.  Featured on Page 30

SAHELI CHATTARAJ is an assistant professor of China Studies at the Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Chinese Language, Literature and Cultural Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a Master of Philosophy in Chinese Studies from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research interests include contemporary India-China relations, politics and state and society relations in China, environmental governance in China and contemporary Chinese literature.  Featured on Page 36

Strategic Partnerships Volume 47, Issue 3, 2022

DR. ALFRED OEHLERS joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI-APCSS) in March 2007. Specializing in the political economy of economic growth and development in the Indo-Pacific region, he has taught and written extensively on a range of issues, many connected with the rapid development of East and Southeast Asia, as well as the Pacific islands region.
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RETIRED INDIAN ARMY MAJ. GEN. S B ASTHANA is chief instructor of the United Service Institution of India, the nation’s oldest think tank. A strategy and security analyst, he is a decorated infantry general with 40 years of experience in national and international assignments, including at the United Nations. He has written over 400 articles about strategy and the military. Featured on Page 14

NOBUKATSU KANEHARA is a professor at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He was assistant chief cabinet secretary to then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe from 2012-19. In 2013, he became the inaugural deputy secretary-general of the National Security Secretariat and also served as deputy director of the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office. His career includes stints in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as director-general of the Bureau of International Law and deputy director-general of the Foreign Policy Bureau. Featured on Page 20

RETIRED UNITED STATES NAVY CAPT. RAUL PEDROZO is the Howard S. Levie professor on the Law of Armed Conflict at the U.S. Naval War College’s Stockton Center for International Law. He served in numerous positions advising senior military and civilian defense officials, including as special assistant to the U.S. undersecretary of defense for policy and senior legal advisor to the commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. He has lectured at myriad academic institutions and written extensively on maritime security and South China Sea issues and is the co-author of several books, including “International Maritime Security Law.” Featured on Page 42

RETIRED U.S. NAVY REAR ADM. MICHAEL BAKER has experience in strategy, contingency planning, overseas deployment operations and multinational exercises. He has taught combat casualty care, triage and trauma care, and response to complex disasters and humanitarian emergencies. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles and has lectured at numerous international conferences.

JACOB BAKER earned a Master of Professional Studies in the Applied Intelligence Program at Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies. He has co-authored articles on the intersection of intelligence, global health, pandemic surveillance and national security.

DR. DEON CANYON, a professor at DKI-APCSS, specializes in crisis management, biosecurity, the Pacific islands region and gray-zone gaming. His research focuses on understanding, managing, controlling and preventing complex and dynamic security threats with innovative approaches. He has authored hundreds of articles during his 29 years at DKI-APCSS and other U.S.and Australian institutions.

DR. SEBASTIAN KEVANY, a professor at DKI-APCSS, is a specialist in health security, health diplomacy, health as foreign policy, international relations, epidemics, pandemics and global public health. He has also done extensive fieldwork as part of more than 100 missions to Africa, the Middle East and the Pacific island region.  Featured on Page 46