Members
The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) has over one hundred members from eighteen countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders. APLN aims to inform and energize public opinion, especially high-level policymakers, to take seriously the very real threats posed by nuclear weapons, and to do everything possible to achieve a world in which they are contained, diminished and eventually eliminated.
XIA Liping
Professor and Founding Dean of School of Political Science & International Relations at Tongji University
Professor and Founding Dean of School of Political Science & International Relations at Tongji University
Dr. Xia Liping is Vice President of the Institute for China and World Studies, and Professor and Founding Dean of School of Political Science & International Relations at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. He is Director of Center for Polar and Oceanic Studies, which has been filed with Chinese Ministry of Education, Tongji University. He is Vice President of Shanghai Association of American Studies. He specializes in nuclear arms control, East Asian security, global governance and China’s foreign strategy. He has published many books and papers. Six of his latest books are, “Governance and Development in the Arctic”, “China’s National Security and Geo-politics”, “Contemporary International System and Strategic Relations among Major Powers”, “U.S. Nuclear Strategy and International Nuclear Non-proliferation since the End of the Cold War”and “Security and Arms Control in the Asia-Pacific Region”. He was Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States from 1994-1995, visiting scholar at Monterrey Institute of International Studies in 1999, the Hong Kong University in 2002, the Stockholm University in 2005, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung EU Office in Brussels in April-May 2009, and visiting professor of University of Pennsylvania in March 2013.
He got a Ph.D. in world history from the East China Normal University in July 2007. He was Director of Department of American Studies from December 2007 to April 2008, and Director of Department of Strategic Studies at Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS) from 1999 to November 2007.