This paper was presented at the workshop In Whose Interests? The Future of the US Military in Asia, held at the East-West Center, February 20-22, 2003. As an initial review of how civil society groups have sought to affect their governments' policy of alliance with the United States, this working paper will form the basis of discussion for a cross-national study of how citizens in Asia view the presence of US forces within their society and the resources they have mobilized to affect policy change.

This paper was presented at the workshop In Whose Interests? The Future of the US Military in Asia, held at the East-West Center, February 20-22, 2003. As an initial review of how civil society groups have sought to affect their governments' policy of alliance with the United States, this working paper will form the basis of discussion for a cross-national study of how citizens in Asia view the presence of US forces within their society and the resources they have mobilized to affect policy change.