Saori N. Katada is Professor of International Relations and the Director of the Center for International Studies at University of Southern California. She has served as the Vice President of International Studies Association and on the editorial team of Review of International Political Economy. Katada has published more than a dozen books in English and in Japanese, and numerous journal articles and chapters covering geoeconomics, international political economy of trade and finance, monetary policy, and Japanese foreign policy.


Kei Koga is Associate Professor at the Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Concurrently, he is a Non-Resident Fellow at The National Bureau of Asia Research (NBR) in the United States, a research committee member at the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS) in Japan, and serves on the editorial team of Foreign Policy Analysis. Koga has published extensively on international security, international/regional institutions, particularly ASEAN, and East Asian/Indo-Pacific security, most notably through his two books on regional security institutions.