Lam PENG ER is a Principal Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. He obtained his Ph.D. at Columbia University. His articles have appeared in Pacific Affairs, Asian Survey, Asian Affairs, Japan Forum, and Government and Opposition: An International Journal of Comparative Politics. Dr. Lam’s books include the single-authored monograph, Japan’s Peace Building Diplomacy in Asia: Searching for an Active Political Role (Routledge, 2009) and Green Politics in Japan (Routledge, 1999), as well as edited and co-edited volumes, Engaging North Korea (Routledge, 2025), South Korea’s New Southern Policy: A Middle Power’s International Relations with Southeast Asia and India (Routledge 2023), Contemporary Korea-Southeast Asian Relations: Bilateral and Multilateral (Routledge, 2022), Japan’s Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Continuity and Change (Lexington Books, 2020), China-Japan Relations in the 21st Century: Antagonism Despite Interdependency (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), Japan’s Relations with Southeast Asia: The Fukuda Doctrine and Beyond (Routledge, 2013), and Japan’s Relations with China: Facing a Rising Power (Routledge, 2006). He is the editor-in-chief of the East Asian Policy: An International Quarterly (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore) and the executive editor of the Asian Journal of Peacebuilding (a journal of the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, Seoul National University). Lam is Singapore country coordinator for NEAT (Network of East Asian Think Tanks) and NACT (Network of ASEAN China Think Tanks). He is also heading the Korea Centre at the East Asian Institute.