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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SUMMARY | After 200 years of diplomatic relations, the time has come for the United States and Thailand to build upon this strong foundation and chart a new course for their alliance in the Indo-Pacific region. This re-...
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Japan Matters for America/America Matters for Japan covers the close relations between the US and Japan, including ties at the US state and Japanese prefectural level across variables such as...
Evidence of rising global temperatures is overwhelming. Likewise, the evidence is clear that people are causing most of this rise through their use of fossil fuels. Yet people are not behaving as if they feel threatened by the crisis that climate...
Roie Yellinek, Doctoral Researcher at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, explains that "Similar to the struggle waged between the United States and the USSR during the Cold War, the United States and China have started to compete over areas of...
SUMMARY | Japanese Silk Road Diplomacy, launched in 1997 by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, was to become one of the first international diplomatic initiatives appealing to the connectivity and revival of the Silk Road...
Daniel Wertz, Program Manager at the National Committee on North Korea, explains that “Pyongyang has established diplomatic relations with every ASEAN country, has been a member of the ASEAN Regional Forum since 2000, and has embassies in every...
The 2018 North Pacific Arctic Conference provided a venue to explore long-term developments in the Arctic region and give voice to new ideas and constructs for the region that connect to and affect global affairs. This volume, reporting on the work...
Julio Amador, former Fulbright ASEAN Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington, explains that “Despite being a former colony, commonwealth, and current ally of the United States, the Philippines has not received any concrete assurances from...
Japanese policymakers are considering formation of a National Economic Council to encourage strategic thinking and better integrate economic and foreign policy. Efforts to increase centralized power may be a fraught process or even engender pushback...
John Hemmings and James Rogers explain that “Japan and the UK have been moving closer together for over a decade, and not only in the diplomaticeconomic sphere.”
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Leif-Eric Easley, associate professor of international studies at Ewha University, explains that summits “can only reach so far beyond domestic political constraints and only temporarily bridge gaps between national interests.”
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The Trump administration's trade policy is likely to risk conflict with US trading partners in Asia and slow down productivity and income growth in the US.
In an annual China Town Hall event held at the East-West Center, analyst Matt Sheehan listed three important questions from the early phases of China’s relationship with Silicon Valley that have been turned on their heads: “How will the global...
China’s astonishing rise over the past few decades, both in terms of economic growth and international influence, represents the most fundamental shift in the global balance of power in more than a century. How the United States—and the rest of the...
The rapid growth of many East and Southeast Asian economies has been fueled primarily by exports to the United States and other economies outside the region, but the financial crises of 1997 and 2008 ushered in a broader concept of regional economic...
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Korea Matters for America/America Matters for Korea covers US relations with the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in areas such as trade and investment, security, travel and tourism,...
What happens to local farmers in the highlands of Southeast Asia as the land they cultivated for centuries is transformed into rubber plantations? In China, Thailand, and Vietnam, many have been able to grow rubber, and some have become wealthy. In...
Cleo Paskal, Associate Fellow, Chatham House and Director at The Oceania Research Project (protorp.org) curates a special series of Asia Pacific Bulletins regarding key issues facing Oceania in 2018.
Strategic Overview of...
Standard measures of economic activity leave out one extremely important component of production and consumption―the unpaid care and household services most often provided by women. Unpaid services―such as cooking, cleaning, and caring for...
Japan’s dramatic transformation from economic success to economic stagnation offers important policy lessons to advanced countries everywhere that are struggling with stagnation. The term 'Japanization' is often used by economists to describe...
The United States benefits from international trade, and Asia and the United States have a mutually beneficial and deepening economic relationship. A byproduct of that deepening economic integration, however, is a tendency toward increased...
Research demonstrates as much as $28 trillion could be added to the global economy by 2025 if all countries bridged the gender gap—a magnitude equivalent to the combined US and China economies today. As Asia-Pacific G20 members represent close to...
