Sungmin Cho

By |2023-10-20T13:56:01-10:00October 29th, 2018|Tags: , |

Dr. Sungmin Cho joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) in August 2018. His area of research interests covers China-Korean Peninsula relations, North Korea’s nuclear program, Korean unification, and the US alliance in East Asia. He also closely follows the domestic politics of China and North Korea. Prior to arriving at DKI APCSS, Dr. Cho was a lecturer for the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University from 2016 to 2018, where he taught the domestic politics of China and the politics of nuclear weapons in East Asia for both undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. [...]

Michael C. Burgoyne

By |2023-05-22T14:27:27-10:00November 1st, 2016|Tags: , , , |

Professor Michael Burgoyne joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) in July 2016 as a Military Professor before retiring in 2019 to take a civilian faculty position. He arrived from the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) in Taipei, where he served as the Army Programs Officer in the Security Cooperation Office. His areas of focus at DKI APCSS are Taiwan, China, the Arctic, and Security Cooperation. As a Foreign Area Officer (FAO) specializing in China and Taiwan, Professor Burgoyne studied and worked in Beijing before assignments in Washington, D.C., and Taipei, Taiwan. He co-edited [...]

James M. Minnich

By |2023-08-30T16:49:52-10:00September 7th, 2016|Tags: , , , |

Dr. James M. Minnich is an academic, author, and retired U.S. Army Colonel with in-depth experiences in Northeast Asia since 1982, including 15 years of duty in Korea. He is a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies where he previously served as Associate Dean, Senior Military Professor, and Senior Military Officer before retiring in 2019 as a U.S. Army Colonel after 37 years of active duty. Dr. Minnich chairs the Center’s Northeast Asia Group and Women, Peace and Security Group, and manages the Indo-Pacific Orientation Course. Dr. Minnich has had extensive operational deployments and travels throughout Asia and in-depth professional experiences [...]

Deon K. Canyon

By |2023-12-22T10:46:03-10:00February 8th, 2016|Tags: , |

Dr. Deon Canyon stands as a distinguished scholar and visionary leader whose remarkable contributions over a few decades have left an indelible mark on the realms of policymakers, crisis managers, wargamers, and health managers. His journey at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) commenced in 2016, where he quickly established himself as a renowned professor of global acclaim. Over the years, his impact transcended the podium as he transitioned into strategic management, leading to his current role as the Associate Dean for Academics at DKI APCSS. Dr. Canyon’s diverse narrative is rooted in an [...]

Christopher J.G. Snedden

By |2019-02-25T14:28:13-10:00June 17th, 2014|Tags: , |

Dr. Christopher Snedden joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in May 2014. He is an Australian academic and former practitioner who specializes in South Asia—particularly this region’s politics, international relations, strategic matters, security issues, culture and religions, and regional affairs—Australia and Australasia, the Indian Ocean, particularly maritime matters, and Russia. Dr. Snedden has had a long involvement with South Asia, having first visited India in 1981 to study meditation at an ashram and having backpacked around Pakistan in 1984. He has worked professionally on South Asian matters with the Australian Government in the Department of [...]

Lori Forman

By |2023-10-27T16:13:47-10:00September 16th, 2011|Tags: , , |

Lori Forman joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in August 2011. She brings a unique international background in corporate, government, academic, and non-profit sectors to the center. Dr. Forman is an expert on international economic development and foreign aid and has extensive field experience in sustainable development, labor mobility, civil society, and public-private partnerships. Before coming to DKI APCSS, Dr. Forman was the first Vice President for Corporate Responsibility for a Dubai Holding company, Tatweer, based in Dubai. Before moving to Dubai, Lori worked for five years with Microsoft as the Regional Director of [...]

William A. Wieninger

By |2022-07-19T15:21:19-10:00March 26th, 2010|Tags: , |

Dr. Bill Wieninger joined the faculty of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) in November 2008.  He has wide-ranging academic interests and maintains specialization in myriad subjects including Weapons of Mass Destruction issues, deterrence and missile defense, civil- military relations and security sector development, Indonesian politics, geopolitics, Women, Peace and Security, energy security, and, most recently, cyber security.Prior to joining the center he spent 15 years on active duty in the US Air Force (USAF) serving in various political-military positions, including staff officer at 13th Air Force for developing security cooperation programs with India, Indonesia, [...]

Virginia Bacay Watson

By |2022-07-19T15:19:46-10:00March 26th, 2010|Tags: , |

Dr. Virginia Bacay Watson is a professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her areas of interest and publication include science, technology and security in the Asia-Pacific region, water security, and Southeast Asia geopolitics.She has held appointments at the University of Denver and Colorado School of Mines, and served as an exchange faculty for the University of Colorado in Beijing, China, as well as a consultant on issues pertaining to water security, science, technology & security, Southeast Asia and the Philippines.Dr. Watson obtained her bachelor’s degrees in Asian Studies and Management of Financial [...]

Alexander Vuving

By |2023-06-14T09:16:26-10:00March 26th, 2010|Tags: , |

Dr. Alexander L. Vuving came to the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in 2008 from Tulane University, where he taught courses on International Relations, International Security, China and the World, and a field seminar in International Politics. Prior to Tulane, Dr. Vuving was a Post-doctoral Fellow and an Associate of Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. He was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. Dr. Vuving spent his formative years in Vietnam, Hungary, France, and Germany during times of [...]

Shyam Tekwani

By |2022-07-19T15:13:50-10:00March 26th, 2010|Tags: , |

Shyam Tekwani is professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies where he specializes in political violence, terrorism and counterterrorism; security dynamics of South Asia and the role of media in security. His research interests include the role of media in conflict, new media and security sector reforms.Professor Tekwani’s extensive background in the media as a journalist reporting conflict and insurgency in the Indo-Asia Pacific includes his exclusive reportage of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka which he covered exhaustively since its inception in 1983. His move to academics converged with the parallel shift of insurgencies and [...]

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