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DR. PAUL J. SMITH is an Associate Professor with the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, where he specializes in transnational security issues and the international politics of East Asia (with particular emphasis on the People’s Republic of China). He is author of The Terrorism Ahead: Confronting Transnational Violence in the 21st Century (M.E. Sharpe, 2007). His edited books include Terrorism and Violence in Southeast Asia: Transnational Challenges to States and Regional Stability (M.E. Sharpe, 2004) and Human Smuggling: Chinese Migrant Trafficking and the Challenge to America’s Immigration Tradition (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1997). He has published articles in such journals as Asian Affairs: an American Review, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, Harvard Asia-Pacific Review, Jane’s Intelligence Review, Orbis, Parameters, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism and Survival. He has also published articles with the United Nations, Council on Foreign Relations and has delivered lectures to police agencies around the world, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Australian Federal Police (AFP). He testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in March 2009 on the subject of US-China cooperation on counterterrorism. His opinion (op-ed) essays have appeared in such publications as Christian Science Monitor, International Herald Tribune, Japan Times, World Politics Review, among others. He holds a B.A. from Washington and Lee University, an M.A. from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and his J.D. and PhD degrees from the University of Hawaii.