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Dr. Jae Ho Chung is a Professor of Political Science and International relations and Director of the Program on U.S.-China Relations at Seoul National University. He is also the China Director for the Seoul Forum for International Affairs (SFIA). A graduate of Seoul National University, Brown University, and the University of Michigan, where he received his PhD in 1993, Professor Chung taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1993-1996) and was the Brookings Institution’s CNAPS Fellow (2002-2003). Professor Chung was the Director of the Institute for International Studies (2004-2006) and the Institute for China Studies (2008-2011). He was also the recipient of the John and Catherine MacArthur Foundation’s Asian Security Initiative Grant during 2009 to 2012. Dr. Chung is the author or editor of 19 books, including Central Control and Local Discretion in China (Oxford University Press, 2000), Between Ally and Partner (Columbia University Press, 2007), Assessing China’s Power (Palgrave, 2015), and Centrifugal Empire: Central-Local Relations in China (Columbia University Press, 2016). He is a recipient of Seoul National University’s Best Researcher Award in 2009, of the Korean Association for International Studies’ Best Book Award in 2012, and the Choice Award in 2017 for Centrifugal Empire.