Rosita Dellios, PhD, is Associate Professor of International Relations at Bond University in Australia. She lectures and writes on the themes of Chinese defence policy and philosophy, concepts for world order and future trends in global politics. She regularly visits Beijing to keep abreast with developments in the fields of China's foreign and defence policies as well as debates in Confucian philosophy.

R. James Ferguson, PhD, is Director of Bond University's Centre for East-West Cultural and Economic Studies, and Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. His teaching and research areas include East Asia, the Indo-Pacific Region, Eurasia, and Latin America, as well as regionalism and globalization studies. He has an academic background in history, cultural systems, and philosophy.