Leif-Eric Easley is an Assistant Professor in the Division of International Studies at Ewha University and an International Research Fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul, Korea. At Ewha, Professor Easley teaches international security and political economics. His research interests include contested national identities and changing levels of trust in the bilateral security relationships of Northeast Asia. He specializes in U.S. security alliances, U.S.-ROK-Japan trilateral coordination on China and North Korea, and the geopolitical implications of domestic political reform (especially in the case of Myanmar). Dr. Easley was the Northeast Asian History Fellow at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University. He was also a visiting scholar at Yonsei University, the University of Southern California’s Korean Studies Institute (KSI), the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA) in Tokyo, and the East-West Center in Honolulu.