June Teufel Dreyer is 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 established by the U.S. Congress. Dr. Dreyer is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a member of the Board of Scholars of the US-China Research Institute of the University of Southern California, and a member of the Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Wellesley and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. A frequent visitor to the Far East, Dr Dreyer’s   most recent book is China’s Political System: Modernization and Tradition, eighth edition, 2012. Her current project is a book on Sino-Japanese relations, under contract to Oxford University Press.  Dr. Dreyer recently served as keynote speaker for the National Security Agency’s annual conference of cryptographers. She also lectured at Oxford University, the Royal Institute of Strategic Studies in London, the School of Oriental and African Studies, the Sorbonne, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fűr Auswartige Politik in Berlin, among other venues. She serves on the board of editors of Orbis and the Journal of Contemporary China, and has received numerous teaching awards.