MIKAEL WEISSMANN is Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also a Research Associate at the East Asian Peace program at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Warwick, UK, as well as Peking, Renmin, and China Foreign Affairs University, China. He has done extensive fieldwork in East Asia and has published on conflict prevention and peacebuilding in the East Asian region.