List of Contributors

Annex List of Contributors Jan Willem BLANKERT has worked in the European Commission on issues relating to European integration and EU enlargement and, more recently, on EU relations with China, in particular trade and economic issues, and Taiwan and the cross-strait question. He is currently visiting professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School for Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Fraser CAMERON is Director of the EU-Russia Centre, a Senior Advisor to the European Policy Centre and Adjunct Professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. A former diplomat and EU official, he is the author of numerous books and articles on the external relations of the EU. David CAMROUX is Senior Research Associate within the Centre d’Études et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), and also a Senior Lecturer seconded to the Institut d’Études Politiques (IEP) at Sciences Po in Paris. He has authored numerous articles on Southeast Asian and Australasian politics and history, and is currently preparing a book on foreign relations, nationalism and regionalism in Southeast Asia. 269 270 China-EU: A Common Future CHEN Zhimin is currently head of the Department of International Politics, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, and also Associate Dean of the Institute of International Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai. His research interests include international relations theory, diplomacy studies, Chinese foreign policy and EU studies. Stanley CROSSICK, an English solicitor and founding chairman of the European Policy Centre, is also Senior Advisor to the EIAS (European Institute for Asian Studies) and member of the Council of La Fondation de l’Innovation Politique. He is a regular visitor to China and speaker, writer and media commentator on EU-China relations. He is an Officier de l’Ordre National (français) du Mérite and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. DAI Bingran is the Jean Monnet Chair and former Director of the Centre of European Studies, Fudan University. Active in the area of European studies, he is Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Chinese Society for EU Studies, and Vice President of the Shanghai Institute of European Studies. Pierre DEFRAIGNE presently heads eur-IFRI, the Brussels-based think-tank of the French Institute for International Relations (IFRI). Recently retired as Deputy Director-General of DG Trade, he was formerly Head of Cabinet for Pascal LAMY, European Commissioner for Trade (1999–2002), and previously Head of Cabinet for Etienne DAVIGNON, Vice President of the European Commission (1977–1983). Annex 271 DING Yifan is Senior Fellow, Deputy Director of the Institute of World Development, under the State Council’s Development Research Center in China. He has published numerous papers on international economics, international relations, and European and US politics in leading Chinese academic magazines and newspapers. He has also published several books on globalization, the Euro and US global hegemony’s paradoxes. Glyn FORD has been a Member of the European Parliament since 1984, and is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Korean Peninsula Delegation. He is a specialist on East Asia, particularly North Korea. David FOUQUET is a European-based journalist who is the Director-Editor of the Asia-Europe Project Information Service. He has travelled, lectured and been a consultant in Europe and Asia, and served as Secretary-General with the European Institute for Asian Studies in Brussels. Specific fields of interest include international and economic relations, arms control, conflict management and environmental protection. Gustaaf GEERAERTS is Professor of International Relations and Dean of the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences at Solvay Business School, and the Director of the Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies, both at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His research interests center on international relations theory, global governance and EU-China Relations. 272 China-EU: A Common Future GUO Xiaobin is a researcher at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations and recently was a visiting scholar at the University of Georgia’s Center for International Trade and Security. His research focuses on export control, non-proliferation and space cooperation. Gary HALLSWORTH has been Director of Governance and Development for the British Council, China since 2002. He has developed governance programs in Vietnam and China, working with both government ministries and the non-government sector. Thomas HEBERER is Professor of Political Science and East Asian Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Having worked and lived in China for many years, he regularly conducts fieldwork in various regions of China and has published extensively on various issues of social and political change in China. James KYNGE spent 19 years as a journalist in Asia and was the China Bureau Chief for the Financial Times for seven years until 2005. The recipient of several journalism awards, in October 2006 he won the Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for his bestseller, China Shakes the World. He currently heads up the business operations of a publishing multinational in Beijing. Annex 273 LI Jinshan is the Director of the Centre for European Studies and head of the Department of Public Policy & Public Economy at Zhejiang University. Prior to that, she was based at the East Asian Institute of Singapore National University (1996–1998) and at the Research Institute for Public Finance of the Ministry of Finance, PRC (1998–2005). Gjovalin MACAJ is a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His current research project is on the European Union as a multilateral actor and the reform of the UN Security Council. MEN Jing is an assistant professor at Vesalius College in Brussels, specializing in Chinese foreign policy and external relations. She has published in peer reviewed journals such as European Law Journal, Global Society and Studia Diplomatica. Dermot O’GORMAN joined the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in May 1998. During this time, he has worked as Head of Government and Aid Agency at WWF UK, as Regional Representative of WWF South Pacific Program based in Fiji, and as Deputy Director, Asia Pacific Program for WWF International. He is currently the Country Representative for WWF China. 274 China-EU: A Common Future Chris PATTEN is Chancellor of the University of Oxford and of Newcastle University. After studying at Oxford, he became a conservative politician, was a member of Parliament from 1979 to 1992, and held a number of ministerial and cabinet posts. He was the last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997 and EU Commissioner for External Relations from 1999 to 2005. Currently, he is co-chair of the International Crisis Group. Etienne REUTER is a senior official of the European Commission in Brussels, having first joined as an advisor to President Roy Jenkins in 1977. An Asian affairs specialist, he worked and lived in Hong Kong and Tokyo from 1993 to 2005. He was the 2006/2007 EU Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School for Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. Andrew SMALL is a program associate at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, where he coordinates GMF’s work on China. He was previously Director of the Foreign Policy Center’s Beijing Office and a visiting fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Willem VAN DER GEEST specializes in the study of global economic and financial institutions and their impact on local, national and regional development. In his present position, directing a think-tank for the EU, he has developed unique insights into the processes of regional integration and accession, especially in the contexts of EUChina and EU-ASEAN. Annex 275 Willem VAN KEMENADE is Senior Fellow at the Clingendael Institute in The Hague. He has been a long-time China analyst for Dutch and international media. In recent years, he has been a consultant and lecturer at business schools and the Clingendael Institute. He is currently writing a new book on global responses to the rise of China. Gudrun WACKER is currently Head of Research Unit Asia at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in Berlin. Her research focuses on Chinese foreign and security policy, especially on EU-China, Sino-Russian and SinoCentral Asian relations; China and the Asia-Pacific region; and Chinese domestic development and minority policy. John WONG is Research Director of the East Asian Institute (EAI) of the National University of Singapore. He has done consultancy work for the Singapore government and many international organizations, and has written and edited over 20 books and numerous articles and papers in learned journals on the development of China and other East Asian economies. WU Baiyi is Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Institute of European Studies, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests broadly range from power relationships, regional security regime and crisis management, to Chinese foreign policy-making. 276 China-EU: A Common Future XING Hua is senior research fellow and director of the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS). His main research fields include the EU, NATO, transatlantic relations and Europe-China relations. He has previously worked at the Chinese embassies in Guinea, Mauritania, Switzerland and Mali. YU Keping is currently Professor and Director of the China Center for Comparative Politics & Economics (CCCPE), and also Professor and Director of the Center for Chinese Government Innovations, Peking University. His major fields of research include political philosophy, comparative politics, globalization, and governance and politics in China. Marcin ZABOROWSKI is Senior Research Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies. From 2002 to 2004, he directed the Transatlantic Program at the Center for International Relations in Warsaw, Poland. He was formerly a NATO Research Fellow (1999–2000) and a EUISS Visiting Fellow (2004). ZHANG Jun is an Associate Professor at the Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She specializes in both the EU’s external relations and foreign aid. Her main works include “EU within the ASEM process: The institutional power of the EU vis-à-vis the Asian members” and Donors in China (co-authored with ZHOU Hong). Annex 277 ZHANG Tiejun is Acting Director of European Studies at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies. His research interests lie in the areas of China’s foreign policy, East Asian regionalism, Sino-European relations and AsiaEurope cooperation. He has published in both China and the West, including two books and numerous papers. ZHENG Yongnian is Professor and Head of Research at China Policy Institute, the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. He has published extensively on China’s transformation and its external relations, and is Editor of the Series on Contemporary China (World Scientific Publishing). He is also an academic activist, having served as a consultant to United Nations Development Program on China’s rural development and democracy. ZHOU Hong is Professor of European Politics and Modern History, Director of the Institute of European Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). She is an elected Member of the Academic Divisions of CASS and is serving as Deputy Director of the Division of International Studies. She also chairs the Chinese Association for European Studies. ZHU Chunquan has been the Head of Conservation Operations Program since September 2005, and before that, was the Director of Forest Program, at WWF China. He has worked with various partners, including government agencies and international organizations at different levels. 278 China-EU: A Common Future ZHU Feng is currently Professor at Peking University’s School of International Studies and is the Director of its International Security Program. A leading Chinese security expert, he writes extensively on regional security in East Asia, the nuclear North Korea issue, American national security strategy, China-US relations and missile defense.