June Teufel Dreyer is a Senior Fellow in the Asia Program at FPRI and Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. Formerly senior Far East Specialist at the Library of Congress, she has also served as Asia policy advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations and as commissioner of the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Dr. Dreyer received her Bachelor’s degree from Wellesley and M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard. Dr. Dreyer is the author of China’s Political System: Modernization and Tradition currently is in its tenth edition, as well as Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Relations Past and Present, which was honored with the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals award for the best book of year on Japan.  Dr. Dreyer has lectured widely in international fora, received numerous teaching awards, and serves on the board of editors of Orbis and the Journal of Contemporary China.