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 an online survey completed by 128 security analysts from 16 countries across the Asia Pacific region plus Taiwan and Europe. This is the third 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. The report includes comparisons with the two previous surveys.