The National Committee on North Korea


Dr. Mel Gurtov

    Professor of Political Science and International Studies
    Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University

    Email: MGurtov@aol.com
Working Groups

    Security

Expertise

    - China-Korea relations
    - Human security
    - US policy

Biography

    Mel Gurtov is Professor of Political Science and International Studies in the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University, Oregon. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Asian Perspective, an international quarterly, which frequently publishes articles on US-DPRK and US-ROK relations, and on the politics and foreign policy of North Korea. Gurtov previously served on the staff of the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, Calif. (1966-71), where he was a co-author of the Pentagon Papers, and at the University of California, Riverside (1971-86), where he was professor of political science. He has published twenty books and numerous articles on East Asian affairs, U.S. foreign policy, and global politics. His most recent books are Superpower on Crusade: The Bush Doctrine in US Foreign Policy (Rienner, 2006); Pacific Asia? Prospects for Security and Cooperation in East Asia (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002); Confronting the Bush Doctrine: Critical Perspectives from Asia-Pacific, co-edited with Peter Van Ness (Routledge, 2005); and Global Politics in the Human Interest, 4th ed. (Rienner, 1999). Mel is a frequent visitor to East Asia, where he has been a visiting professor and Senior Fulbright Scholar at Waseda University in Tokyo and Hankuk Foreign Studies University in Seoul and has lectured at universities and research institutes in South Korea, Japan, and China. He is fluent in Chinese.


Contact Information

    Email: MGurtov@aol.com
    Telephone: 503-725-5974/3456





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