Prof. Zhu Feng is currently Executive Director of the China Center for Collaborative Studies of the South China Sea, Nanjing University. He is also Director of the Institute of International Studies at Nanjing University. He sits on multiple editorial boards of scholarly journals, consults independently for the Chinese government and the private sector, and comments frequently on Chinese foreign affairs and security policy in the media. He writes extensively on regional security in East Asia, the nuclear issue in North Korea, and China-U.S. military and diplomatic relations. As a leading Chinese security expert, Professor Zhu’s recent books include China-Japan Security Cooperation and Defense Communication: the Past, Present, and Future (co-edited with Prof. Akiyama Asahiro, Tokyo: Aiji Press, 2011) and America, China and the Struggle for the World Order (co-edited with Prof. G. John Ikenberry and Prof. Wang Jisi, MacMillan, 2015). Prof. Zhu began his undergraduate studies at the Department of International Politics at Peking University in 1981 and received his Ph.D. from Peking University in 1991.