East-West Center expertise and research findings are published by the East-West Center and by presses and collaborating organizations throughout the region and the world. Publications address a range of critical issues in the Asia Pacific region.
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America's Voluntary Standards System: A 'Best Practice' Model for Asian Innovation Policies? Dieter Ernst 2013 Across Asia there is a keen interest in the potential advantages of America's market-led system of voluntary standards and its contribution to US innovation leadership in complex technologies. For its proponents, the US tradition of bottom-up... |
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Can a Growing Services Sector Renew Asia's Economic Growth? Marcus Noland, Donghyun Park, and Gemma B. Estrada April 2013 To continue Asia's economic growth the focus for expansion and improvement must move from export manufacturing to the services sector--primarily to cross-border trade in such modern services as finance, information and communication, and... |
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Conflict Prevention Urgent for the Senkaku Conundrum Masako Ikegami May 3, 2013 Masako Ikegami, Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University, explains that "Future peace and prosperity in East Asia rests upon a peaceful and constructive resolution to the Senkaku conundrum by overcoming the negative legacy of... |
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Connecting Communities and Conservation: Co-management Initiatives Implemented by IPAC in Wetlands and Forests of Bangladesh Jefferson Fox, M.G. Mustafa, Bryan R. Bushley, Stephen M. Brennan, and Laurie Durand (eds.) January 2013 One of the poorest and most densely populated nations in the world, Bangladesh is also arguably the most vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change. Increased salinity of soils in coastal regions as well as increased incidence and... |
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Deciphering Australia’s Defense Budget Mark Thomson May 23, 2013 Mark Thomson, Senior Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), explains that “If the symbolic political target of a budget surplus cannot be reached, the remaining constraints on spending are weak. So, counter intuitively, the... |
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Education in Pacific Island States: Reflections on the Failure of 'Grand Remedies' Victor Levine 2013 Victor Levine asks a fundamental question of increasing importance to a globalizing region: How can Pacific Island states provide decent public education to their children? Based on broad international experience, he examines the evidence... |
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Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times Ann Anagnost, Andrea Arai, and Hai Ren (eds.) 2013 Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times is the twentieth title in the East-West Center book series, Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific, published by Stanford University Press. The East Asian... |
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How Mobile Is the Footloose Industry? The Case of the Notebook PC Industry in China Tain-Jy Chen and Ying-Hua Ku 2013 This paper reexamines the concept of the "footloose industry" from the perspective of global production networks (GPNs). Among the players in these GPNs, contract manufacturers are believed to be the most footloose, as they are the most... |
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Japan’s Disaster Relief Diplomacy: Fostering Military Cooperation in Asia Hideshi Futori May 13, 2013 Hideshi Futori, recent Japan Studies Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington, explains that "First, the realm of HA/DR is a rare opportunity for Japan to actively engage in military cooperation with China." The views expressed... |
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Lower-Income Countries and the Demographic Dividend National Transfer Accounts Project December 2012 Over the past 60 years, population age structures have been changing everywhere in the world. As the share of national populations at working ages has grown relative to the share of dependent children, many of the world's fastest-growing... |
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A New Electoral System for Fiji in 2014: Options for Legitimate Representation Norm Kelly February 15, 2013 From the time of Fiji's independence in 1970, the country has struggled to adopt an electoral system that adequately caters for its multi-ethnic society, which is predominantly indigenous Fijian or Indo-Fijian. The political struggle between... |
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Patterns of Free Trade Areas in Asia Masahiro Kawai and Ganeshan Wignaraja 2013 This monograph addresses Asia's rise in global free trade agreement (FTA) activity. This has sparked concerns about the erosion of the World Trade Organization (WTO) trading system and the Asian "noodle bowl" (multiple and possibly... |
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Promoting Standards Harmonization in the Fight Against Climate Change Llewelyn Hughes April 30, 2013 Llewelyn Hughes, recent Japan Studies Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington, explains that "The clean energy innovation agenda announced by the US and Japanese governments in their Shared Vision for the Future should retain a... |
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South Korea: National Security or National Pride Regarding Japan? Krista E. Wiegand May 22, 2013 Krista E. Wiegand, recent POSCO Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center, explains that "The South Korean government will not be able to deal with the larger issue of security relations with Japan until disputed issues symbolized by Dokdo/... |
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Sustainability and Efficiency in Managing Public Expenditures Richard Hemming, Jay-Hyung Kim, and Sang-Hyop Lee (eds.) 2012 Public spending is a critical element in national development. The outcomes of public spending can be short-sighted and inefficient, however, unless a sound management system and related policies for public expenditures are in place. Fiscal... |
