Asia Experts
Associate Director, Center for South Asia Studies (CSAS), University of California at Berkeley
Professional Lecturer, The George Washington University.
Dr. Bernd Schaefer is Cold War International History Project Senior Research Scholar. Previously he was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. and the Hannah Arendt Institute at the Technical University of Dresden. He also served four years as secretary for the East German Catholic Church's Stasi lustration commission in Berlin. He is also a former fellow of th...
Susan (Chan) Shifflett is a program associate at the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum. Prior to joining the Wilson Center, Susan was a junior associate at The Asia Foundation. As a graduate student, she interned at the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Food Security, writing research briefs on food and water security. From 2007-2010, she lived in Beijing where she serv...
Korea Foundation Chair Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri
I am a chair professor of political science at the University of Missouri and am the founder of the Korea Barometer and a co-founder of the Asian Barometer. For the past two decades, I have conducted comparative research on the democratization of authoritarian politics and cultures in East Asia and other regions. I have also conducted public opinion research on the quality of life among the mass p...
Visiting Fellow, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad; Correspondent, <i>Jane's Defence Weekly</i>
SubjectsArms Control,Pakistan,South AsiaExpertiseSouth Asia, military expenditure, arms control, arms procurement