Friday, October 17, 2008

with

Regina Armstrong
President, Urbanomics

Samuel S. Kim
Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead EAI, Columbia University

About the Speakers

Regina Armstrong has been the president of Urbanomics since 1984. From 1964 to 1984, she was chief economist and vice president/Economics for the Regional Plan Association, New York.

She is the author of many works on urban planning, including The Office Industry: Patterns of Growth and Location (The MIT Press) and Regional Accounts: Structure and Performance of the New York Region’s Economy in the Seventies (Indiana University Press). In 1994 she received the American Planning Association Ponte Award for Economic Planning Excellence. Her firm was selected by the ROK government to develop a plan for the Saemangeum mud flat area.



Samuel S. Kim is a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute and editor-in-chief of the “Asia in World Politics” series of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. He previously taught at the Foreign Affairs Institute in Beijing, China (1985-86), Princeton University (1986-93) and Columbia University (1993-2006).

He is the author or editor of twenty-three books on East Asian international relations (especially Chinese and Korean foreign relations) and peace and world order studies including China, the United Nations and World Order (1979); The War System: An Interdisciplinary Approach (with Richard A. Falk, 1980); The Quest for a Just World Order (1984); North Korean Foreign Relations in the post-Cold War Era (ed., 1998); Korea’s Globalization (ed., 2000); East Asia and Globalization (ed., 2000); Korea’s Democratization (ed., 2003); The International Relations of Northeast Asia (ed., 2004); The Two Koreas and the Great Powers (2006); and North Korean Foreign Relations in the Post-Cold War World (2007). He has published more than 160 articles in edited volumes and leading international relations journals, including American Journal of International Law, The China Quarterly, International Interactions, International Organizations, International Journal, Journal of Peace Research, World Policy Journal; and World Politics.

Professor Kim received his MIA (Master of International Affairs) and PhD in political Science from Columbia University in 1962 and 1966.

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