Bilahari Kausikan is Singapore’s permanent representative to the United Nations in New York. He was formerly ambassador to the Russian Federation and to Finland, and has served as both director for Southeast Asia and director for East Asia and the Pacific at Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Asian and non-Asian authors debate the desirability of democracy in East Asia… The two editors… do an excellent job introducing the issues, ideas, and approaches of the fifteen authors."—Foreign Affairs
