Brendan M. Howe (BA/MA Oxon, MA UKC, PhD TCD) is a Professor of International Relations and former Associate Dean and Department Chair of the Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University. He is also currently the President of the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA). He has held visiting professorships and research fellowships at the Freie Universität Berlin, University of Sydney, East-West Center (Honolulu), Georgetown University, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, and Beijing Foreign Studies University. His ongoing research agendas focus on traditional and non-traditional security in East Asia, human security, middle powers, public diplomacy, post-crisis development, comprehensive peacebuilding, and conflict transformation. He has authored, co-authored, or edited more than 90 related publications. Including UN Governance in Cambodia and East Timor: Measurements of Success (Springer, 2020), Regional Cooperation for Peace and Development (Routledge, 2018), National Security, Statecentricity, and Governance in East Asia (Springer, 2017), Peacekeeping and the Asia-Pacific (Brill, 2016), Democratic Governance in Northeast Asia (Springer, 2015), Post-Conflict Development in East Asia (Ashgate, 2014), and The Protection and Promotion of Human Security in East Asia (Palgrave, 2013).