Policy Briefs

General Policy Briefs

Title: Reinventing Asian Populism: Jokowi's Rise, Democracy, and Political Contestation in Indonesia
Authors: Marcus Mietzners
Date: February 2015

Title: Contesting Buddhist Narratives: Democratization, Nationalism, and Communal Violence in Myanmar
Authors: Matthew J. Walton, Susan Hayward.
Date: November 2014

Title: The Asia-Pacific Cooperation Agenda: Moving from Regional Cooperation Toward Global Leadership,
Authors: Charles E. Morrison
Date: October 2014

Title: Broadcasting Justice: Media Outreach at the Khmer Rouge Trials
Authors: Christoph Sperfeldt
Date: July 2014

Title: Rubber Plantations Expand in Mountainous Southeast Asia: What Are the Consequences for the Environment?
Authors: Jefferson M. Fox, Jean-Christophe Castella, Alan D. Ziegler, Sidney b. Westley.
Date: May 2014

Title: See No Evil: South Korean Labor Practices in North Korea
Authors: Marcus Noland
Date: April 2014

Title: Flexible Implementation: A Key to Asia's Transformation
Authors: Luke Simon Jordan, Katerina Koinis
Date: April 2014

Title: Global Trends of Multi-Factor Productivity
Authors: Jeong Yeon Lee
Date: March 2014

Title: ASEAN Centrality and the ASEAN-US Economic Relationship
Authors: Peter A. Petri, Michael G. Plummer
Date: March 2014

Title: Upgrading India's Electronics Manufacturing Industry: Regulatory Reform and Industrial Policy
Authors: Dieter Ernst
Date: February 2014

Title: Democratic Change and Forest Governance in the Asia Pacific: Implications for Myanmar
Authors: Stephen McCarthy
Date: February 2014

Title: Creating Korea's Future Economy: Innovation, Growth, and Korea-US Economic Relations
Authors: Sean P. Connell
Date: January 2014

Title: Micronesians on the Move: Eastward and Upward Bound
Authors: Francis X. Hezel
Date: September 2013

Title: Ethnic Policy in China: Is Reform Inevitable?
Authors: James Leibold
Date: September 2013

Title: South Korea's Response to Human Rights Abuses in North Korea: An Analysis of Policy Options
Authors: Andrew Wolman
Date: June 2013

Title: How Mobile Is the Footloose Industry? The Case of the Notebook PC Industry in China
Authors: Tain-Jy Chen, Ying-Hua Ku
Date: April 2013

Title: Education in Pacific Island States: Reflections on the Failure of 'Grand Remedies'
Authors: Victor Levine
Date: April 2013

Title: Can a Growing Services Sector Renew Asia's Economic Growth?
Authors: Marcus Noland, Donghyun Park, Gemma B. Estrada
Date: April 2013

Title: America's Voluntary Standards System: A 'Best Practice' Model for Asian Innovation Policies?
Authors: Dieter Ernst
Date: April 2013

Title: The Elusive Nature of North Korean Reform
Authors: Marcus Noland
Date: February 2013

Title: Patterns of Free Trade Areas in Asia
Authors: Masahiro Kawai, Ganeshan Wignaraja
Date: February 2013

Title: How Emerging Forms of Capitalism Are Changing the Global Economic Order
Authors: Christopher A. McNally
Date: February 2013

Title: More Security for Rising China, Less for Others?
Authors: Denny Roy
Date: January 2013

Title: A Double-Edged Sword: Information Technology in North Korea
Authors: Scott Thomas Bruce
Date: October 2012

Title: Terrorism in Perspective: An Assessment of 'Jihad Project' Trends in Indonesia
Authors: Julie Chernov Hwang
Date: September 2012

Title: UK-Japan Defense Cooperation: Britain Pivots and Japan Branches Out
Authors: Philip Shetler-Jones
Date: May 2012

Title: Rising Tensions Over China's Monopoly on Rare Earths?
Authors: Jane Nakano
Date: May 2012

Title: Political Reforms in Malaysia: Winds of Change or Hot Air?
Authors: Justina Chen
Date: May 2012

Title: The Significance of Burma/Myanmar's By-Elections
Authors: David I. Steinberg
Date: April 2012

Title: Reluctant India, Rising China and Alliance Politics in the Asia-Pacific
Authors: Yogesh Joshi
Date: April 2012

Title: No Hedging in Canberra: The Australia-US Alliance in the "Asian Century"
Authors: Nick Bisley
Date: April 2012

Title: Inching Forward at the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit
Authors: Sharon Squassoni
Date: April 2012

Title: False Hopes for Chinese Economic "Integration"
Authors: John Lee
Date: April 2012

Title: China-North Korea: Renewal of the "Blood Alliance"
Authors: Masako Ikegami
Date: April 2012

Title: Burma/Myanmar's By-Elections: Will Personalities Trump Institutions?
Authors: Tin Maung Maung Than
Date: April 2012

Title: US Agricultural Exports to ASEAN Grow - But Face Competition
Authors: Michael McConnell
Date: March 2012

Title: "Linsanity," Social Media and US-Asia Relations
Authors: Elina Noor
Date: March 2012

Title: U.S.-China Competition in Asia: Legacies Help America
Authors: Robert Sutter
Date: February 2012

Title: The Foundation of China's Future Stability
Authors: Peter Mattis
Date: February 2012

Title: Syria: What China Has Learned From its Libya Experience
Authors: Yun Sun
Date: February 2012

Title: Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone and the Nuclear-Weapon States
Authors: Peter Crail, Xiaodon Liang
Date: February 2012

Title: India, Thailand and the Burma Connection
Authors: Sasiwan Chingchit
Date: February 2012

Title: The Emerging Strategic Dynamic in Southeast Asia
Authors: Marvin C. Ott
Date: January 2012

Title: Taiwan: Crisis Deferred, But Maybe Not For Long
Authors: Denny Roy
Date: January 2012

Title: Post-Crisis Japanese Nuclear Policy: From Top-Down Directives to Bottom-Up Activism
Authors: David P. Aldrich
Date: January 2012

Title: Pacific Island Nations: How Viable Are Their Economies?
Authors: Francis X. Hezel
Date: January 2012

Title: Indonesia's Blasphemy Law: Bleak Outlook for Minority Religions
Authors: Melissa Crouch
Date: January 2012

Title: Breaking with the Past? Civil-Military Relations in the Emerging Democracies of East Asia
Authors: Aurel Croissant, David Kuehn, Philip Lorenz
Date: January 2012

Title: Policy Concerns of Low Fertility for Military Planning in South Korea
Authors: Elizabeth Hervey Stephen
Date: November 2011

Title: Is China's Indigenous Innovation Strategy Compatible with Globalization?
Authors: Xielin Liu, Peng Cheng
Date: October 2011

Title: Beyond Armed Resistance: Ethnonational Politics in Burma (Myanmar)
Authors: Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung
Date: October 2011

Title: The End of 'Growth with Equity'? Economic Growth and Income Inequality in East Asia
Authors: Dieter Ernst
Date: July 2011

Title: Economic Reforms, Regionalism, and Exports: Comparing China and India
Authors: Ganeshan Wignaraja
Date: July 2011

Title: India and Indonesia: Renewing Asia's Collective Destiny
Authors: Sourabh Gupta
Date: March 2011

Title: Gandhi and Gaddafi: The Nonviolent Road to Revolution?
Authors: Gautam Adhikari
Date: March 2011

Title: Evolution, Not Revolution: The US-NZ Security Partnership
Authors: Robert Ayson, David Capie
Date: March 2011

Title: Dealing with Davis: Inconsistencies in the US-Pakistan Relationship
Authors: Huma Yusuf
Date: March 2011

Title: Cambodia's Bumpy Development Road: Implications for US Interests
Authors: Donald Jameson
Date: March 2011

Title: Bloody Blasphemy: Antagonizing Religious Minorities in Indonesia and Pakistan
Authors: Endy Bayuni
Date: March 2011

Title: Australia and Japan: Allies in Partnership
Authors: Malcolm Cook, Thomas S. Wilkins
Date: March 2011

Title: A Step Too Far: Why CPGS Is The Wrong Answer to China's Anti-Access Challenge
Authors: Iskander Rehman
Date: March 2011

Title: What Can the United States Learn from Russia's Relations with ASEAN Countries?
Authors: Stephen Blank
Date: February 2011

Title: Vietnam's Eleventh Party Congress: "Socialist Orientation" and Market Reform
Authors: Nguyen Manh Hung
Date: February 2011

Title: Population Aging and Economic Progress in Asia: A Bumpy Road Ahead?
Authors: Andrew Mason, Sang Hyop Lee
Date: February 2011

Title: Japan's National Security Policy: New Directions, Old Restrictions
Authors: Yasuhiro Matsuda
Date: February 2011

Title: Indonesia-India Relations: It's Business as Unusual
Authors: Endy Bayuni
Date: February 2011

Title: Glum and Glummer in Japan
Authors: Jeffrey Hornung
Date: February 2011

Title: In Search of Refuge: Pacific Islands, Climate-Induced Migration, and the Legal Frontier
Authors: Maxine Burkett
Date: January 2011

Title: Executive Accountability in Southeast Asia: The Role of Legislatures in New Democracies and Under Electoral Authoritarianism
Authors: William Case
Date: January 2011

Title: China's Confucius Institutes: Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones
Authors: Maria Wey-Shen Siow
Date: January 2011

Title: Chinese Domestic Debates on Soft Power and Public Diplomacy
Authors: Maria Wey-Shen Siow
Date: December 2010

Title: Very Low Fertility in Asia: Is There a Problem? Can It Be Solved?
Authors: Sidney B. Westley, Minja Kim Choe, Robert D. Retherford
Date: May 2010

Title: Beyond the Truth: Can Reparations Move Peace and Justice Forward in Timor-Leste?
Authors: Leigh-Ashley Lipscomb
Date: March 2010

Title: US-Vietnam: New Strategic Partners Begin Tough Trade Talks
Authors: Raymond Burghardt
Date: February 2010

Title: Separate but Loyal: Ethnicity and Nationalism in China
Authors: Wenfang Tang, Gaochao He
Date: January 2010

Title: Crossing Borders, Changing Landscapes: Land-Use Dynamics in the Golden Triangle
Authors: Jefferson Fox
Date: December 2009

Title: The Global Economic Crisis and Its Implications for Asian Economic Cooperation
Authors: Michael G. Plummer
Date: October 2009

Title: Forest Communities and REDD Climate Initiatives
Authors: Mark Poffenberger, Kathryn Smith-Hanssen
Date: October 2009

Title: The New ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights: Toothless Tiger or Tentative First Step?
Authors: Michelle Staggs Kelsall
Date: September 2009

Title: Why Science Alone Won't Solve the Climate Crisis: Managing Climate Risks in the Pacific
Authors: Melissa L. Finucane
Date: August 2009

Title: A New Geography of Knowledge in the Electronics Industry? Asia's Role in Global Innovation Networks
Authors: Dieter Ernst
Date: August 2009

Title: Are the Farmers Always Right? Rethinking Assumptions Guiding Agricultural and Environmental Research in Southeast Asia
Authors: A. Terry Rambo
Date: May 2009

Title: The State Strikes Back: India and the Naga Insurgency
Authors: Charles Chasie, Sanjoy Hazarika
Date: February 2009

Title: North Korean Shipping: A Potential for WMD Proliferation?
Authors: Hazel Smith
Date: February 2009

Title: Ethno-Diplomacy: The Uyghur Hitch in Sino-Turkish Relations
Authors: Yitzhak Shichor
Date: January 2009

Title: Multitrack Integration in East Asian Trade: Noodle Bowl or Matrix?
Authors: Peter A. Petri
Date: October 2008

Title: Oil in Asia and the Pacific: Production, Consumption, Imports, and Policy Options
Authors: Kang Wu, Fereidun Fesharaki, Sidney B. Westley, Widhyawan Prawiraatmadja
Date: August 2008

Title: Renewing the Pacific Partnership
Authors: Charles Morrison, Peter Petri
Date: September 2007

Title: Viable and Environment-Friendly Sources for Meeting South Asia's Growing Energy Needs
Authors: Toufiq Siddiqi
Date: August 2007

Title: Muslim Resistance in Southern Thailand and Southern Philippines: Religion, Ideology, and Politics
Authors: Joseph Chinyong Liow
Date: September 2006

Title: 'Justice on the Cheap' Revisited: The Failure of the Serious Crimes Trials in East Timor
Authors: David Cohen
Date: May 2006

Title: China and the Depreciating U.S. Dollar
Authors: Richard C. K. Burdekin
Date: January 2006

Title: Banking Crises in East Asia: The Price Tag of Liberalization?
Authors: Ilan Noy
Date: November 2005

Title: Can China Afford to Continue Its One-Child Policy?
Authors: Wang Feng
Date: March 2005

Title: What Motivates Regional Financial Cooperation in East Asia Today?
Authors: Jennifer Amyx
Date: February 2005

Title: The Tibet-China Conflict: History and Polemics
Authors: Elliot Sperling
Date: August 2004

Title: The Moro Conflict: Landlessness and Misdirected State Policies
Authors: Jr. Borras, Eric Gutierrez
Date: August 2004

Title: An India-Pakistan Detente: What It Could Mean for Sustainable Development in South Asia and Beyond
Authors: Toufiq A. Siddiqi
Date: August 2004

Title: The Politics of Environmental Policy with a Himalayan Example
Authors: Piers Blaikie, Joshua Muldavin
Date: June 2004

Title: Tourism in a 'Borderless' World: The Singapore Experience
Authors: T.C. Chang
Date: May 2004

Title: "Failed State"; and the War on Terror: Intervention in Solomon Islands
Authors: Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka
Date: March 2004

Title: Political Parties and Political Engineering in the Asia Pacific Region
Authors: Benjamin Reilly
Date: December 2003

Title: Asian Oil Market Outlook: Role of the Key Players
Authors: Jeffrey Brown, Kang Wu
Date: October 2003

Title: The Move to Preferential Trade in the Western Pacific Rim
Authors: John Ravenhill
Date: June 2003

Title: HIV/AIDS in Asia
Authors: Tim Brown
Date: May 2003

Title: Changing Korean Perceptions of the Post-Cold War Era and the U.S.-ROK Alliance
Authors: Choong Nam Kim
Date: April 2003

Title: Living with a Climate in Transition: Pacific Communities Plan for Today and Tomorrow
Authors: Eileen Shea
Date: March 2003

Title: China's State-Owned Enterprises: Thriving or Crumbling?
Authors: Sang-Hyop Lee, Andrew Mason, Gerard Russo
Date: February 2003

Title: Coast Guards: New Forces For Regional Order and Security
Authors: Sam Bateman
Date: January 2003

Title: The Demographic and Political Imperatives for Improving Crown-Maori Relations in Aotearoa-New Zealand
Authors: Harry A. Jr. Kersey
Date: November 2002

Title: Indoor Air Pollution: The Quiet Killer
Authors: Vinod Mishra, Robert D Retherford, Kirk R Smith
Date: October 2002

Title: The Case for U.S. Leadership in Rebuilding Afghanistan
Authors: Wali M Osman
Date: September 2002

Title: Seeking Justice on the Cheap: Is the East Timor Tribunal Really a Model for the Future?
Authors: David Cohen
Date: August 2002

Title: Managing Asia Pacific's Energy Dependence on the Middle East: Is There a Role for Central Asia?
Authors: Fereidun Fesharaki, Kang Wu
Date: June 2002

Title: Terrorism and America: Five Asia Pacific Perspectives
Authors: Sang-Hyop Lee, Andrew Mason, Gerard Russo
Date: February 2002

Title: Terrorism and America: Five Asia Pacific Perspectives
Authors: Terutomo Ozawa
Date: December 2001

Title: Terrorism and America: Five Asia Pacific Perspectives
Authors: Harry Bhaskara, Gautam Chikermane, Unaloto Ofa Kaukimoce, Amantha R. Perera, Takeshi Yamashina
Date: October 2001

Title: "Déjà vu all over again?" Why Dialogue Won't Solve the Kashmir Dispute
Authors: Arun R. Swamy
Date: October 2001

Title: Japan's Uneasy Citizens and the U.S.-Japan Alliance
Authors: Sheila A. Smith
Date: September 2001

Title: Rough Waters in the South China Sea: Navigation Issues and Confidence-Building Measures
Authors: Ji Guoxing
Date: August 2001

Title: The Xinjiang Conflict: Uyghur Identity, Language Policy, and Political Discourse
Authors: Adrienne M. Dwyer
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: The Politics of Military Reform in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Elite Conflict, Nationalism, and Institutional Resistance
Authors: Marcus Mietzner
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: The Helsinki Agreement: A More Promising Basis for Peace in Aceh?
Authors: Edward Aspinall
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: The HDC in Aceh: Promises and Pitfalls of NGO Mediation and Implementation
Authors: Konrad Huber
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: Sino-Tibetan Dialogue in the Post-Mao Era: Lessons and Prospects
Authors: Tashi Rabgey, Tseten Wangchuck Sharlho
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: Secessionist Challenges in Aceh and Papua: Is Special Autonomy the Solution?
Authors: Rod McGibbon
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: Plural Society in Peril: Migration, Economic Change, and the Papua Conflict
Authors: Rodd McGibbon
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: Nine Lives?: The Politics of Constitutional Reform in Japan
Authors: J. Patrick Boyd, Richard J. Samuels
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: Meeting the China Challenge: The U.S. in Southeast Asian Regional Security Strategies
Authors: Evelyn Goh
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: Islamic Radicalism and Anti-Americanism in Indonesia: The Role of the Internet
Authors: Merlyna Lim
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: India's Globalization: Evaluating the Economic Consequences
Authors: Baldev Raj Nayar
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: How Does Son Preference Affect Populations in Asia?
Authors: Minja Choe Kim, Sidney Westley
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: Forging Sustainable Peace in Mindanao: The Role of Civil Society
Authors: Steven Rood
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: Constructing Papuan Nationalism: History, Ethnicity, and Adaptation
Authors: Richard Chauvel
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: China's Rise: Implications for U.S. Leadership in Asia
Authors: Robert G. Sutter
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: China in Oceania: New Forces in Pacific Politics
Authors: Terence Wesley-Smith
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: Challenges for U.S.-Asia Pacific Policy in the Second Bush Administration
Authors: Satu Limaye
Date: (Date Not Available)

Title: Autonomy in Xinjiang: Han Nationalist Imperatives and Uyghur Discontent
Authors: Gardner Bovingdon
Date: (Date Not Available)

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Policy Studies

Title: Russia in the Asia-Pacific: Between Integration and Geopolitics
Authors: Paul Richardson
Date: February 2012

Title: Is China's Indigenous Innovation Strategy Compatible with Globalization?
Authors: Xielin Liu, Peng Cheng
Date: January 2011

Title: Executive Accountability in Southeast Asia: The Role of Legislatures in New Democracies and Under Electoral Authoritarianism
Authors: William Case
Date: January 2011

Title: Engaging North Korea: The Role of Economic Statecraft
Authors: Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland
Date: January 2011

Title: Economic Reforms, Regionalism, and Exports: Comparing China and India
Authors: Ganeshan Wignaraja
Date: January 2011

Title: Beyond Armed Resistance: Ethnonational Politics in Burma (Myanmar)
Authors: Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung
Date: January 2011

Title: Benevolent Benefactor or Insensitive Regulator? Tracing the Role of Government Policies in the Development of India's Automobile Industry
Authors: Rajnish Tiwari, Cornelius Herstatt, Mahipat Ranawat
Date: January 2011

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