Comprehensive Security in Asia Views from Asia and the West on a Changing Security Environment

Kurt W. Radtke, Ph.D. (1975) in Chinese, Australian National University, was Professor of Modern Japanese History at Leiden University, and is now Professor of Chinese and Japanese Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo. His research focuses on comparative East Asian politics/society/history, and he is the author of China's Relations with Japan, 1945-83: The role of Liao Chengzhi (Manchester University Press, 1990) and several other books and numerous articles in that field.
Raymond Feddema is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Amsterdam. He received his Ph.D. (A Society in Crisis: Continuity and Change in the Tonkin Delta, 1802-1927) at the same university. At present his main field of research are the political economies of Southeast and East Asian countries in relation to their particular cultures and their links to the global economy.