U.S. foreign policy and policymaking; Asia Pacific regionalism; Asia Pacific trade & investment policy issues and trends; Pacific Islands economic development
Director of the United States Asia Pacific Council. Military intelligence specialist, U.S. Army, Vietnam; Assistant Professor of Sociology, Iowa State University. Postdoctoral Fellow of the Roundtable on Science and Public Affairs, Duke University. Staff Member of the House Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs. Congressional Science Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Served five years as Chairman of the PECC International Coordinating Group; three years as Director General of the Asia-Pacific Information Technology Summit. Publication: Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia, (Third Edition, 2007, Westview) a companion textbook to the 10-hour public television series.