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East-West Center

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The U.S. Congress established the East-West Center in 1960 to foster mutual understanding and cooperation among the governments and peoples of the Asia Pacific region, including the United States. Funding for the Center comes from the U.S. government with additional support provided by private agencies, individuals, corporations, and Asian and Pacific governments.

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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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