Senior Fellow Marcus Noland writes in a new East-West Wire commentary that rising diplomatic tensions between South Korea and Japan are putting American security interests at risk at a critical time, with a South Korea-Japan intelligence-sharing agreement, aimed at North Korea, hanging in the balance. ...more...

Noted international relations scholar and former national security official Robert Sutter spoke in an EWC Distinguished Lecture about the implications of the U.S. government's hardening stance toward China, which has accelerated rapidly over the past year. Watch video.

Members of the East-West Center’s Board of Governors have elected board member and former Punahou School President Dr. James K. Scott to succeed attorney Richard Turbin as the board’s chairman. The board also selected Bank of Hawai'i CEO Peter Ho as Hawai'i Vice Chair. ...more...

Corporation for Public Broadcasting President and CEO Patricia de Stacy Harrison spoke at EWC October 1, delivering a strong call for support of journalistic accuracy and fairness in a era of increasingly fractured digital audiences and media opinion "bubbles." Watch video of Harrison's address.

With international resources and financial support for HIV programs in the region declining, researchers Tim Brown and Wiwat Peerapatanapokin write in a new East-West Wire commentary that it is more important than ever for prevention efforts to achieve maximum impact by targeting the key populations most at risk. ...more...

Recently the East-West Center’s NOAA-supported Pacific RISA climate impact research group hosted this year’s national meeting of RISA teams from across the country at Imin Center. Each year, the eleven teams from various regions meet to share best practices, including the pictured session on innovations that different teams have made in designing impact assessment tools and methods.