Masako@Ikegami's Bio: Prof. Masako Ikegami is Professor and Director of the Center for Pacific Asia Studies (CPAS), Stockholm University since 2001. She holds Doctor of Sociology from the University of Tokyo (1996), and Ph.D. in peace and conflict research from Uppsala University (1998). Her research ranges from empirical analyses of defence R&D and production, defence policy-making process, arms control & disarmament, to East Asian regional security and confidence building measures. She has published two monographs, Military Technology and US-Japan Security Relations (Uppsala 1998), and The Military-Industrial Complex: The Cases of Sweden and Japan (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1992), and co-authored many books including chapters on Japan's defence production; '15. Japan: a latent but large supplier of dual-use technology' in H. Wulf (ed.) Arms Industry Limited, SIPRI (Oxford University Press 1993), and '5. Japan' in R. Singh (ed.) Arms Procurement Decision Making, Vol. 1, China, India, Israel, Japan, South Korea and Thailand, SIPRI (Oxford University Press 1998), eAnatomy of North Korean Nuclear Crisisf, PRIME, vol. 19 (2004), and 'Seigyo to Yudo: Mohitotsu no Kita-Chosen Seisaku [Regulation and Guidance: an Alternative Policy toward North Korea]', in Y. Sugita (ed.) Dosuru Nicho-kankei (Tokyo: Liberta 2004). Also she has extensively written articles on missile defence and East Asia regional security, North Korean nuclear crisis, and the Taiwan Strait. She has lectured on East Asian security issues at various institutes and conferences in the United States, Europe and Asia, and was a POSCO Visiting Fellow in 2005 at the East-West Center, Honolulu, on eNorth Korean nuclear crisis and its implications for the future East Asian securityf. She is an active participant of the Pugwash conferences on science and world affairs (Nobel Peace Prize 1995) on the arm control & disarmament, non-proliferation and conflict prevention issues, currently as a board member of the Swedish Pugwash Group (chair: Amb. Rolf EkeLus). |