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  - Education Program Overview
    Education Program Overview
    The East-West Center is a leader in educating people of the Asia Pacific region, including the United States, to meet the evolving demands and interdependency of global change. The Center offers a range of educational opportunities, bringing together more than 300 students each year from across the region.
  - Opportunities for Study and Scholarship
  - EWC Student Experience
  - EWC Graduate Degree Fellowship
    EWC Graduate Degree Fellowship
    The East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship provides funding for up to 24 months for Master's or Doctoral degree study for graduate students from Asia, the Pacific, and the U.S. to participate in the educational, residential, and leadership development programs at the East-West Center while pursuing graduate study at the University of Hawai‘i. Through East-West Center affiliation, awardees become part of a growing network of students and alumni forging the shape and substance of the world's most vibrant region.
  - Asian Development Bank-Japan Scholarship
  - U.S. South Pacific Scholarship
    U.S. South Pacific Scholarship
    The U.S. South Pacific Scholarship Program, authorized by the U.S. Congress and funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, is a competitive, merit-based scholarship program that provides opportunities for Master’s and Bachelor’s degree study at the University of Hawai‘i in fields that are directly relevant to the development needs of Pacific island countries. Applications are due February 1, 2019 for study beginning August 2019. Visit our website for complete details.
  - Obuchi Student Scholarship
  - Graduate Degree Fellowship for Taiwan
  - Student Affiliate Program
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  - Gender Equality
- Research
  - Research Program Overview
    Research Program Overview
    The East-West Center Research Program engages the research and policy communities in the US and the Asia Pacific on issues of common concern. The goal is to provide more complete knowledge and deeper understanding of the environments, societies, economies, and governments of the Asia Pacific region.
  - Featured Research Projects
  - Pacific RISA Project
    Pacific RISA Project
    Pacific Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (Pacific RISA) program strives to enhance Pacific communities’ abilities to understand, plan for, and respond to changing climate conditions. Learn more about Pacific RISA.
  - Research on the East-West Wire
  - Research in the News
  - Research Noon Seminar Series
    Research Noon Seminar Series
    The East-West Center Research Program Noon Seminar Series seeks to disseminate research and policy finding on environmental, social, economic, political, and international relations issues in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. The Noon Seminar Series invites scholars, advocates, and government officials from throughout the U.S., Asia and the Pacific to share their findings with planners, academics, policymakers, regional specialists, the media, and the general public through the series.
  - Recent Publications by East-West Center Authors
  - Research Staff
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  - Gender Equality
- Professional Development
  - Overview
    Overview
    The Professional Development Program conducts all of the East-West Center’s short to medium-term capacity-building, leadership training, professional exchanges, career development, and high-level dialogue activities.
  - Asia Pacific Disinformation Initiative
  - Humane AI Initiative
  - Leadership Program
    Leadership Program
    Leadership education at the East-West Center draws upon a deep well of experience. For over 50 years, the Center has been working with and producing leaders from diverse fields across the region.
  - Seminars & Journalism Programs
    Seminars & Journalism Programs
    East-West Seminars offers short-term dialogue, field study, travel and exchange opportunities for working professionals in politics, government, civil society, business and the media who are in positions to affect policy, shape public opinion and influence change.
  - Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP)
    Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP)
    The Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership is a membership organization consisting of some twenty-five universities, ministries of education and quality assurance entities joined together to identify, explore and conduct research on key issues of higher education change within the Asia Pacific
  - Asian Studies Development Program
    Asian Studies Development Program
    A joint program of the East-West Center and the University of Hawai’i, ASDP offers a variety of content-focused faculty and institutional development programs and activities centered around summer residential institutes, field seminars in Asia, workshops on the U.S. mainland, and an annual academic…
  - Gender Equality
- Pacific Islands
  - About PIDP
  - Pacific Islands Tourism Professional Fellows Program
    Pacific Islands Tourism Professional Fellows Program
    PIDP's Pacific Islands Tourism Professional Fellows Program will bring two cohorts of tourism industry professionals from the Pacific Islands to Honolulu, Hawai‘i for intensive six-week programs that build significant new capacity and facilitate enduring professional bonds between industry leaders in the United States and the Pacific Islands.
  - PIDP Research
  - Regional Secretariat
  - Pacific Islands Report
    Pacific Islands Report
    Pacific Islands Report is a nonprofit news publication of the Pacific Islands Development Program at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Offered as a free service to readers around the world, PIR provides an edited digest of news, commentary and analysis from across the Pacific region, Monday through Friday.
  - Capacity Building
  - Governance
  - The Polynesian Voyaging Society and the East-West Center: An Early and Enduring Relationship
    The Polynesian Voyaging Society and the East-West Center: An Early and Enduring Relationship
    After the founding of the Polynesian Voyaging Society in Hawai‘i in the early 1970s, the East-West Center provided it support as part of the Center’s mandate from the US Congress to facilitate “cultural and technical interchange between East and West.” The Center, through its deep networks in the then-UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, was able to identify the traditional navigator necessary for the project, and host him in Honolulu as a “special fellow.”
  - Pacific Islands Leadership Program with Taiwan (PILP)
  - North Pacific Women's Action Program (NorPac)
  - Gender Equality
- EWC in DC
  - Asia Matters for America
  - Projects and Publications
  - Visiting Fellows
  - Congressional Staff Program on Asia
    Congressional Staff Program on Asia
    CSPA is a bipartisan educational certificate program, which aims to equip Congressional staffers with greater knowledge of U.S.-Indo-Pacific policy in order to better understand America’s role in and engagement with this dynamic region and the policy implications that will directly engage Congress.
  - Young Professionals Program (Internship)
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  - EWCA Announcements and News
    EWCA Announcements and News
    The East-West Center Association (EWCA) is an international network of professionals who have a past affiliation with the East-West Center. There are no membership fees to participate in the EWCA. The Association is led by an international Executive Board representing the various professions, regions, and decades of its members. Collectively, they are contributing to global understanding, building an Asia Pacific community, and making a world of difference.
  - EWCA Overview
    EWCA Overview
    The East-West Center Association (EWCA) is an international network of professionals who have a past affiliation with the East-West Center. There are no membership fees to participate in the EWCA. The Association is led by an international Executive Board representing the various professions, regions, and decades of its members. Collectively, they are contributing to global understanding, building an Asia Pacific community, and making a world of difference.
  - EWCA Member Benefits
    EWCA Member Benefits
    With more than 65,000 alumni and associates around the world, the East-West Center has one of the largest networks of professionals working to advance international cooperation and understanding between the East and West. As part of that network, you can receive advice and support from associates throughout the region. As an alumni/associate you may join any one of the nearly 50 EWC alumni chapters in Asia, the Pacific and the U.S. While traveling, you can also contact local chapters for assistance in making contacts with colleagues and friends.
  - Student/Participant Connection
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  - EWC/EWCA 60th Anniversary International Conference in Hawaii
  - EWCA Social Networks
    EWCA Social Networks
    The East-West Center Association maintains four main online networks to keep Alumni, Associates and Friends of the East-West Center communicating with each other. Join our EWCA Online Networks today!
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Oct23Revitalizing Tapa: How Art Strengthens Ancient Connections of the Pacific
Nov01Inter-Korea Strategy of the Moon Jae-in Government and the Future of the Peninsula
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The Impact of the Trump Administration’s Indo- Pacific Strategy on Regional Economic Governance

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Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Inroads into Central Asia Comparative Analysis of the Economic Cooperation Roadmaps for Uzbekistan

Timur Dadabaev
Japan Matters for America/America Matters for Japan

East-West Center in Washington
North Korea and ASEAN: Friends Again, but It's Complicated

Daniel Wertz
The Philippine-US Alliance in 2019

Julio Amador
Pathways for the United States and Vietnam to Establish a Strategic Partnership by 2020

Bich T. Tran
Foreseeing India-China Relations: The 'Compromised Context' of Rapprochement

Jagannath P. Panda and Atmaja Gohain Baruah
ASEAN Matters for America/America Matters for ASEAN

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Asia Matters for America
An online hub for graphical data on US-Asia interactions.
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Managing climate risk in the Pacific.
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