Professor Zhu Feng is executive director of 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 writes extensively on regional security in East Asia, the North Korea nuclear, China-U.S. military and diplomatic relations. As a leading Chinese security expert, Prof. Zhu’s recent books include International Relations Theory and East Asian Security (2007), China’s Ascent: Power, Security, and Future of International politics (Cornell University Press, 2008), China-Japan Security Cooperation and Defense Communication: the Past, Present, and Future (Aiji Press, 2011), and America, China and the Struggle for the World Order (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). He sits on numerous editorial boards for scholarly journals, consults independently for the Chinese government and the private sector and comments frequently on television and radio and in the print media regarding Chinese foreign affairs and security policy.