Young-Sun Ha is a professor in the Department of International Relations at Seoul National University and chairman of Global Net 21 at East Asia Institute. Professor Ha received both his B.A. and M.A. from Seoul National University, and received his Ph.D. in international politics from University of Washington. He served as director of the Center for International Studies, Seoul National University; director of the American Studies Institute, Seoul National University; president of the Korea Peace Studies Association; and research fellow at that Center for International Studies at Princeton University and the Center for International Peace in Stockholm. Coauthor of East Asian Community: Myth and Reality (2008), Transformation of World Politics (2007), Network Knowledge State (2006), North Korean Nuclear Crisis and Peace on the Korean Peninsula (2006), Korean-American Alliance: A Vision and a Roadmap (2006), Korea’s Grand Strategy for a New Century: Weaving a Network State (2006), Korean Diplomatic History and the Study of International Politics (2005), New Perspective of Changing World (2004), 100 Years Plan for the Korean Peninsula in the 21st Century (2004), and World Politics of Cyberspace (2001).