Claude Barfield is a resident scholar at AEI. He is the author or editor of a number of books on trade and science policy, including Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization (AEI Press, 2001). In 1999, he coauthored Tiger by the Tail: China and the World Trade Organization (AEI Press) with Mark Groombridge. Mr. Barfield is working with Andrei Zlate on the forthcoming AEI Press book The Eagle and the Dragon: The United States, China, and the Rise of Asian Regionalism. Before coming to AEI, he served in the Gerald R. Ford administration on the staff of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and as a co–staff director of the President’s Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.

John R. Bolton is a senior fellow at AEI, where he studies foreign policy and international organizations. Ambassador Bolton served as the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations from August 2005 to December 2006. From May 2001 to May 2005, he was the under secretary of state for arms control and international security. Prior to this, Ambassador Bolton was the senior vice president of AEI and also held a number of positions in public service, including assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs, 1989-93; assistant attorney general, 1985-89; assistant administrator for program and policy coordination, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), 1982-83; and USAID general counsel, 1981-82. From 1983 to 1985, Ambassador Bolton was an associate and then member of Covington & Burling. He is the author of Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad (Simon and Schuster, 2007).

Kevin Brady is serving his sixth term in Congress representing the Eighth District of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives. A deputy whip for the Republican leadership team, Representative Brady serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, considered by many to be the most powerful committee in Congress, with jurisdiction over two-thirds of the federal budget, including taxes, Social Security, Medicare, international trade, and welfare. As the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Trade and a member of the Social Security Subcommittee, he fights for free market solutions to our country’s economic challenges and preservation of the programs that help our seniors. Representative Brady was also the White House’s point man in the successful passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Prior to his election in Congress, Representative Brady worked as a chamber of commerce executive for eighteen years and served six years in the Texas House of Representatives.

Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at AEI and is also a senior adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research in Seattle. He serves on the advisory board of the Korea Economic Institute of America and is a founding member of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Mr. Eberstadt is currently, inter alia, a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics and the Visiting Committee for the Harvard School of Public Health. Mr. Eberstadt is regularly consulted by governmental and international organizations, including the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the World Bank. Mr. Eberstadt has published over three hundred studies and articles in scholarly and popular journals, mainly on topics in demography, international development, and East Asian security. His dozen-plus books and monographs include The Poverty of Communism (Transaction, 1988); The Tyranny of Numbers (AEI Press, 1995); The End of North Korea (AEI Press, 1999); Korea’s Future and the Great Powers (University of Washington Press, 2001); The North Korean Economy: Between Crisis and Catastrophe (Transaction, 2007); Europe’s Coming Demographic Challenge: Unlocking the Value of Health (AEI Press, 2007); and, most recently, The Poverty of ‘The Poverty Rate’: Measure and Mismeasure of Want in Modern America (AEI Press, 2008).

L. Gordon Flake is the executive director of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, which he joined in 1999. He was previously a senior fellow and associate director of the program on conflict resolution at the Atlantic Council of the United States and director for research and academic affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America. Mr. Flake is coeditor with Park Roh-byug of New Political Realities in Seoul: Working toward a Common Approach to Strengthen U.S.-Korean Relations (Mansfield Foundation, 2008) and coeditor with Scott Snyder of Paved with Good Intentions: The NGO Experience in North Korea (Praeger, 2003), and he has published extensively on policy issues in Asia. He is a regular contributor on Korean issues in the U.S. and Asian press and has traveled to North Korea numerous times. Mr. Flake is a member of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies and serves on the boards of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, as well as on the advisory council of the Korea Economic Institute of America.

Philip I. Levy studies international trade and development at AEI. Before joining AEI, he handled international economic issues as a member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff (2005-2006), was senior economist for trade on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (2003-2005), and was a faculty member in Yale University’s department of economics (1994-2003). An economist by training, he has experience in many international trade and development policy issues, including free trade agreements, trade with China, antidumping policy, welfare effects of globalization, U.S. foreign assistance policy, and economic development policy.

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