Peter Van Ness is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of International Relations. He is a specialist on Chinese foreign policy and US relations with China. He has published books on Chinese support for revolution during the Maoist period, market reforms in socialist societies, the human rights debate in Asia, and Asian responses to the Bush Doctrine. Since the Fukushima disaster in 2011, he has been working with a group of physical scientists and social scientists on a critical analysis of nuclear power in East Asia.