Stephan Haggard is Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies at the University of California San Diego. He has written widely on the political economy of East Asia, including Pathways from the Periphery (1990), The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis (2000), Hard Target: Sanctions, Inducements and the Case of North Korea (2017) and Developmental States (2018). He is editor of the Journal of East Asian Studies. David C. Kang is Maria Crutcher Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California and Director of the USC Korean Studies Institute. His publications include American Grand Strategy and East Asian Security in the 21st Century (2017) and East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute (2010).