The Asia-Pacific Century: Challenges and Opportunities

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Dr. Stephen J. Cimbala is a distinguished professor of political science at Penn State Brandywine. He is the author of numerous works in the field of national security studies defense policy nuclear arms control deterrence and other subjects. Dr. Cimbala is an award-winning Penn State teacher. His recent publications include Nuclear Weapons in the Information Age (Continuum International Publishing Company 2012) and his edited volume Civil-Military Relations in Perspective: Strategy Structure and Policy (Ashgate Publishers 2012).Dr. Chad Dacusis a research professor of economics at the Air Force Research Institute (AFRI) Maxwell AFB Alabama. His current research interests include defense acquisition economics and strategy and cyberspace risk modeling. Before joining the AFRI staff Dr. Dacus worked for the Center for Naval Analyses as a research analyst in readiness and infrastructure and then as a field representative to US Fleet Forces Command.Dr. Thomas P. Dolanis a professor and chairman Department of Political Science and chairman Master of Public Administration Program Columbus State University. Rated as a naval flight officer and mission commander in the P-3 Orion he also served as an intelligence analyst with the Combined Forces Command US Forces Korea and with the War Plans Division Forces Command. Dr. John P. Geis IIis director of research Air Force Research Institute Maxwell AFB Alabama. He is a retired US Air Force colonel with an Air Force career spanning training and combat operations. He flew the T-37 AT-38B T-43 two variants of the F-111 and the AC-130H special operations gunship and was director of long-range planning for all US Air Force special forces. Dr. Geis served for eight years as director Air Force Center for Strategy and Technology where he advise