This report—and the series—bring together and compare responses from a variety of perspectives and nationalities to a set of questions on Asia Pacific regional security. The information compiled from the survey provides a generally accurate representation of the state of thinking about the security outlook in the region among security specialists.

This report presents the results of a survey completed by 104 security analysts from 17 countries across the Asia Pacific region as well as European specialists in this field. This is the second year that the East-West Center has conducted this survey, and it reflects an expansion in the number of participants from the previous year as well as some changes in the content of the survey. Comparisons with the previous survey are included in the report.