Robert E. Bedeski
Department of Political Science, University of Victoria
Canada

Robert E. Bedeski is currently Professor of Political Science and Program Professor: Human Security and Peace in the Asia-Pacific Region, Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, has lived and traveled extensively in East Asia – especially China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Mongolia. He was the first non-Japanese Research Fellow at the National Institute of Defense Studies in Tokyo in 1980-81, and has frequently lectured and conducted research in Japan, on topics of security and international relations. He is the author of The Fragile Entente: The 1978 Japan-China Peace Treaty in a Global Context. (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983), and The Transformation of South Korea: Reform and Reconstitution in the Sixth Republic under Roh Tae Woo, 1987-1992. (London: Routledge, 1994). Current research and writing has focused on Human Security, Chinese international migration, arms control and verification on the Korean Peninsula, and small arms proliferation in Asia. He has been a co-organizer of the annual Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (Canada) and the Korean Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA) Workshops on Arms Control and Verification, which alternated between Seoul and Victoria. He served as President of the Japan Studies Association of Canada in 1995, and was Co-Chair of the Canadian Consortium on Asia Pacific Security (CANCAPS) (1998). He currently chairs the Maritime Security Working Group (MSWG) of CANCAPS. He is also a member of the Canadian Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific (CSCAP), and the Advisory Board for Royal Roads University Conflict Analysis and Management Programme.