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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Darren Mangado, visiting fellow at the East-West Center in Washington explains that “For some, these activities come off as an imposition of the U.S. agenda, with terrorism and transnational crimes viewed as excuses for a more U.S....
The Russia’s Relations with the Indo-Pacific series comprises five Russian-author perspectives on the country’s attitudes and engagement with the region including case studies of relations with China, Japan, and India.
Understanding Russia’s...
Huy Pham Quang, Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington, explains that “Beijing under Xi Jinping’s administration may benefit the most from a divided ASEAN. In such an environment, the increased presence of the United States and...
The Trump administration's Indo-Pacific regional economic governance strategy addresses trade, investment, and infrastructure development. Its reception by regional states varies by issue area, with infrastructure and investment being positively...
China, Japan, and South Korea have regarded Central Asia as a new Asian frontier in their foreign policies since the collapse of the Soviet Union. With time, their policies evolved into regionbuilding initiatives exemplified by the Shanghai...
Authors discuss the elements and aspirations of Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy from domestic, foreign policy, and strategic perspectives and offer assessments of the initiative’s achievements and constraints.
Indo-Pacific Development and...
Environmental problems are a focus of popular unrest within China and concern about the "China threat" in the rest of the world. Although pollution created by automobiles, heavy industry, and coal-fired power plants captures most of the public...
The largest U.S. military complex in an allied country occupies 15 percent of the 466-square-mile island of Okinawa. This is the only place in the world where continuing demonstrations occur against a U.S. base presence and where the presence of U.S...
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-...
Additional titles in theAsia Matters for America series
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...
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...
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...
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.
Additional titles in theAsia Matters for America series
This publication covers US relations with 40 countries in the Indo-Pacific and highlights the many trade, investment, government and cultural and educational ties that bind the US and the...
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...
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...
