Past Visiting Fellows
2024
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan
Ministry of Unification, South Korea
Institute for Korea National Security Policy (INSP), South Korea
2023
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan
Prior to her position at ISDP: Busan Daily News in South Korea
PhD from the University of Auckland, New Zealand
Ajou University, South Korea
2022
Prior to her position at ISDP: Ministry of Health and Welfare of South Korea
Gachon University
Federal Government Department of Pakistan
Federal Government Department of Pakistan
King’s College London
Catholic University of Korea
2021
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea
Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
Jeonbuk National University, South Korea
Korea National Defense University, South Korea
2020
Korea Freedom Foundation
National Defence University, Taiwan
University of Gujrat, Pakistan
Ministry of Public Administration and Security, Republic of Korea
Ajou University, South Korea
Education Professional
Ministry of Unification, Republic of Korea
2019
Institute for National Security Strategy, South Korea
Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences, China
Sichuan University, China
Ministry of Justice, South Korea
Korea-Europe Association, North Korea
Korea-Europe Association, North Korea
Sejong Institute, South Korea
2018
Princeton University, USA
University of New South Wales Canberra, Australia
Korea-Europe Association, North Korea
Korea-Europe Association, North Korea
Korean Women’s Development Institute, South Korea
PLA Academy of Military Sciences (AMS), China
PLA Academy of Military Sciences (AMS), China
Institute for Disarmament and Peace (IDP), North Korea
Institute for Disarmament and Peace (IDP), North Korea
Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU), South Korea
Institute of American Studies, China Institutes for Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), China
2017
National Assembly, South Korea
Institute for Disarmament and Peace (IDP), North Korea
Institute for Disarmament and Peace (IDP), North Korea
University of Greenwich, United Kingdom
The Institute 21 For Peace Studies, The Dong-A Ilbo Media Group
Ministry of Environment, South Korea
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the Republic of Korea
2016
Pakistan Study Center, Sichuan University, China
American Studies Center, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Sichuan University, China
PLA Academy of Military Science, China
PLA Academy of Military Science, China
Faculty of International Relations of the Universidad de Los Hemisferios, Ecuador
Myanmar Development Resource Institute, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Myanmar
Myanmar Development Resource Institute, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Myanmar
2015
American University, U.S.A.
Myanmar Development Resource Institute, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Myanmar
Myanmar Development Resource Institute, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Myanmar
Ministry of Environment, South Korea
2014
PLA Academy of Military Science, China
PLA Academy of Military Science, China
China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), China
Myanmar Development Resource Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Myanmar
Non-Resident Senior Fellow & Head of the ISDP China Office. Visiting Fellow June-November 2014, China
Center for Security and Strategic Studies, KIDA, the Korea Institute for Defence Analyses, ROK
PLA Academy of Military Science, China
PLA Academy of Military Science, China
Myanmar Development Resource Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Myanmar
Myanmar Development Resource Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Myanmar
2013
Department of Strategic & Nuclear Studies (SNS), National Defence University (NDU), Pakistan
Myanmar Development Resource Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Myanmar
Myanmar Development Resource Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Myanmar
PLA, Academy of Military Science, China
PLA, Academy of Military Science, China
Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies, U.S.A.
Myanmar Development Resource Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Myanmar
Shwe Zin Mon Aung (May – June 2013)
Myanmar Development Resource Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Myanmar
PLA, Academy of Military Science, China
PLA, Academy of Military Science, China
2012
Australian Security Research Centre, Australia
Myanmar Development Resource Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Myanmar
Myanmar Development Resource Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Myanmar
PLA, Academy of Military Science, China
PLA, Academy of Military Science, China
China Foreign Affairs University, China
PLA, Academy of Military Science, China
Institute for Disarmament and Peace, DPRK
Chol Nam Jong
Institute for Disarmament and Peace, DPRK
2011
PLA, Academy of Military Science, China
PLA, Academy of Military Science, China
Ewha Womans University Institute for Unification, ROK
Hak Rim Ho
Institute for Disarmament and Peace, DPRK
Institute for Disarmament and Peace, DPRK
China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), China
China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), China
Shi Xiaoqin
PLA Academy of Military Science, China
PLA Academy of Military Science, China
Political Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Myanmar
International Organizations and Economic Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Myanmar
Institute for Disarmament and Peace, DPRK
Institute for Disarmament and Peace, DPRK
2010
Niu Zhongjun
Institute for Disarmament and Peace, DPRK
Jagannath P. Panda (September-November 2010)
Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
PLA Academy of Military Science, China
PLA Academy of Military Science, China
Liu Mingli
China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, China
Department of Finance and the Chancellery of the Sejm, Poland
Choe Chang Man (August – September 2010)
Choe Chang Man is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Disarmament and Peace in DPRK.
Ma Tong Hui (August 2009 – September 2010)
Ma Tong Hui is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Disarmament and Peace in DPRK.
Senior Colonel Zhang Dongjiang (June – July 2010)
Senior Colonel Zhang Dongjiang is a senior research fellow at the Academy of Military Science (AMS) of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the People’s Republic of China. As a high ranking officer, S. Col. Zhang is experienced in the practical workings of troops and works as commander of a company and a regiment, deputy-commander of a division, and director of the Research Section of Politics of the Political Department of the General Staff of PLA. At ISDP he engaged in research focusing on the dispute between China and Japan on delimitation in the East China Sea.
Captain Feng Xinhua (June – July 2010)
Captain Feng Xinhua is a researcher at the Department of Operational Theory and Manual Research at the PLA Military Science Academy. During his stay at ISDP he researched the security of international marine strategic thoroughfare.
Norihito Kubota (April – June 2010)
Norihito Kubota is an Assistant Professor at the National Defense Academy of Japan; he became a Visiting Fellow at ISDP this April. From 2008 to 2010, prior to joining ISDP, Mr. Kubota was a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto. His publications include “Effects of the Political Regime and Casualty Sensitivity on the Provision of Personnel to the UN Peacekeeping Operations: The Application and the Extension of the Lebovic’s Analysis,” Defense Studies, No. 38 (2008); “What Is to be Secured,” in Yasuhiro Takeda ed. Introduction to Security Studies, Aki-Syobo, (2007); “Personal and Group Decision-making: Political Psychology of Failures” in Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Masaru Kohno eds., Access Security Studies, Nihon-Keizai-Hyoron-Sha, (2005).
Song Qingrun (April – June 2010)
Song Qingrun is a researcher at the Institute of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), a prominent Beijing based think tank. He is an expert on the studies of Myanmar, Thailand, and Mekong area, and has published a number of papers about the abovementioned fields. He was a guest researcher at ISDP during the Spring of 2010 and spent his time researching U.S.-Myanmar relations.
Major Lu Yin (November 2009 – February 2010)
Major Lu Yin is a research fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies, National Defense University, PLA, China, and was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy of Sweden (ISDP).
Winston Set Aung (October – December 2009)
Winston Set Aung started a three-month research project with the ISDP this October as a guest researcher. He is a Founder and Director of the Research of Asia Development Research Institute (ADRI) and also a Founder and Executive Director of the Asia Language and Business Academy (ALBA) of Myanmar. He is also a faculty member for the MBA Programme at the Yangon Institute of Economics of Myanmar. Mr. Set Aung is taking part in the ongoing Myanmar project at ISDP and mainly focuses on research related to informal/illegal cross-border economy including cross-border trade and migration (human trafficking) and their policy implications. His stay was funded with a grant awarded by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT). Personal webpage.
Li Xin (August – October 2009)
Li Xin started a three-month fellowship at ISDP this August as a guest researcher. She is currently Deputy Director for International Exchanges at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR). Apart from conducting interviews and attending conferences on various topics, Ms. Li Xin is conducting research mainly focused on the study of China’s image as well as the intertwined relationship between China’s soft power and the perceptions of the outside world.
Colonel Zhao Dexi (February – March 2009)
Colonel Zhao Dexi was a guest researcher at ISDP. He is a research fellow at the Department of War Theories and Strategic Studies of the Academy of Military Science, PLA, Beijing. His fields of interest include national security strategy and military strategy. During his stay at ISDP he worked on his report on “Integrating Process and Collective Defense of the European Countries”.
Senior Colonel Zhao Xiaozhuo (February – March 2009)
Senior Colonel Zhao Xiaozhuo was a guest researcher at ISDP. He is a research fellow at the Department of World Military Studies of the Academy of Military Science, PLA, Beijing. At ISDP his research focused on strategic management of armed forces in developed countries.
Dr. Xu Qiyu (January – April 2009)
Dr. Xu Qiyu, a senior research fellow from the Institute for Strategic Studies of the National Defense University, Beijing was a guest researcher at ISDP. During his stay, Dr. Xu worked on an Asia Paper entitled “Managing uncertainties – Sino-EU cooperation in international security”.
Dr. Kathleen J. Hancock (June 2008)
Dr. Kathleen J. Hancock, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas, was a guest researcher at the institute. Dr. Hancock specializes in international relations theory, international organization and economic relations in the former Soviet Union.Personal webpage.
Prof. Alan M. Wachman (May 2008)
Prof. Alan M. Wachman, an Associate Professor of International Politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University was on a short research visit at the institute. Prof. Wachman worked on a book manuscript examining Mongolia’s national security in the context of the PRC’s geostrategic worldview. Personal webpage.
Dr. Maqsudul Hasan Nuri (May – June 2008)
Dr. Maqsudul Hasan Nuri Senior Research Fellow from the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) was a guest research at ISDP. His visit was funded by the STINT (The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education).Personal website.
Prof. Robert E. Bedeski (May – August 2008)
Prof. Robert E. Bedeski from the University of Victoria, Canada was a guest researcher at ISDP. Prof. Bedeski is engaged in questions concerning security and politics in Asia. Personal website.
Senior Colonel Ren Xiangqun (April – June 2008)
Senior Colonel Ren Xiangqun from the Academy of Military Science of the People’s Liberation Army in Beijing was a guest research at the Institute. Ms. Ren conducted research and wrote a publication on PLA’s transparency.
Prof. Chen Yuexue (September 2007 – May 2008)
Prof. Chen Yue Xue from Beijing University of Agriculture stayed at the Institute for 9 months as a guest researcher. She is interested in rural economic development of China and China-Taiwan trade relations. Prof. Chen received scholarship from the STINT.