Photo by Lucy Kynge, Beijing, 25 February 2006

Tim Beal: bionote

He was foundation director of the Centre for Asia/Pacific Law and Business (CAPLAB) at Victoria University of Wellington, 1992-98. He was Secretary of the NZ Asian Studies Society 1995-8 during which time he edited the 2nd edition of the NZASIA Directory of Asian Studies. He created the society's website and a web version of the Directory. He is currently Chairman and Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Research Institute of New Zealand (APRI) , Member of the Advisory Board of the NZ Journal of Asian Studies,and of International Quarterly Journal of Marketing ,an Associate Editor of International Journal of Digital Management, Co-editor of Pyongyang Report , Secretary of the NZ-DPRK Society, a co-ordinator of The Asia Forum, and an Associate of Japan Focus . He is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. and a member of the Council of the Asian Studies Institute of Victoria University. He is also Honorary Research Fellow, Political Economy Research Centre (PERC), University of Sheffield.

He was a recipient of a Canadian Government Canada-Asia-Pacific Award for 2003 to research Canada-DPRK relations. From September to December 2003 he was a visiting professor in the College of Business Administration, Korea University, Seoul. He also does occasional teaching at the European Overseas Campus in Bali of the University of Flensburg. He is a member of the National Council for New Zealand of the Council for Security in Asia/Pacific (CSCAP). Since late 2003 he has also been active in generating multimedia resources for teaching and research on Doing Business in Asia involving filming, so far, in South Korea, North Korea, Malaysia, Japan, and Hong Kong. His latest book, North Korea: The Struggle against American Power, was published by Pluto Press of London in September 2005; a Korean edition was published in October 2010. He is a member of the international editorial advisory board of the Journal of Islamic Marketing launched in 2010.
In October 2010 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Regional Economic Studies (CRES) of the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), Seoul on a project entitled ‘Korea's FTAs and their implications for the Korean wine market’ . While at KIEP he produced a working paper, soon to be published, and gave lectures to two universities on the topic. He also wrote a piece for the EMERICs website India and China – Recognising the differences

In November 2010 he paid a short visit to the DPRK (his fifth) with Hon Matt Robson. He has an article on China-DPRK economic relations appearing in the Korea Yearbook 2011 and his next book Crisis in Korea: America, China, and the Risk of War will be published by Pluto Press in August

He is currently working on three book projects:

• Friends and Enemies: Declining America and Rising China
• North Korea: From penury to prosperity, the role of sanctions and trade
• North Korea, Imperialism, Globalisation, and the Making of Contemporary Asia

He maintains a number of websites, the major one being on Asian Geopolitics

CENTRAL ACADEMIC INTERESTS

• Political economy of DPRK (North Korea) and its interaction with the United States
• Rise of China and India and their transformation of global political economy
• Wine: Marker of Social Change
  A project investigating the role of wine as a significant marker of societal, and market, change in societies which are not traditionally wine drinking.
• Doing Business in Asia
  Generating multimedia educational resources for teaching and research
• The growth of the service function in international business
• Islamic marketing
• Economic and political relationships in the Asia/Pacific region
• New Zealand's relationship with Asia
• Asian migration, tourism, and the ageing society
• Globalisation, services, and Small and Medium Enterprises