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The Asia Society is America's leading institution dedicated to fostering understanding of Asia and communication between Americans and the peoples of Asia and the Pacific.Through art exhibitions and performances, films, lectures, seminars and conferences, publications and assistance to the media, and materials and programs for students and teachers, the Asia Society presents the uniqueness and diversity of Asia to the American people.

Founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller 3rd, the Society reaches audiences around the United States through its headquarters in New York and regional centers in Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, DC. Asians from all walks of life also participate in the Society's work through its regional centers in Hong Kong, Manila, Melbourne and Shanghai, an International Council, and programs in Asia.

A national nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization, the Society provides a forum for building awareness of the more than thirty countries broadly defined as the Asia-Pacific region - the area from Japan to Iran, and from Central Asia to New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands.

The Asia Society is supported by contributions from foundations, corporations, and individuals who believe in the mandate of the Society: to build bridges of understanding between Americans and Asians.

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Working Papers

General Working Papers

Title: Implementation of Basel III: Economic Impacts and Policy Challenges in the United States, Japan, and the European Union
Authors: Minoru Aosaki
Date: February 2013

Title: Current Realities and Future Possibilities in Burma/Myanmar
Authors: Dan Glickman (Co-Chair), M.S. Swaminathan (Co-Chair)
Date: May 2010

Title: John Burns and the Hunt for 'Essential Truths': Veteran Newsman Recalls Formative Experiences in 1970s China
Authors: John Burns, Bill Keller, Orville Schell
Date: November 2008

Title: 'Resilient' Asia Should Weather Economic Crisis: ADB President Acknowledges Shocks, Predicts Long-Term Survival
Authors: Haruhiko Kuroda
Date: November 2008

Title: The Williamsburg Conference
Date: April 2008

Title: Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki on Iraq, the US and Prospects for Peace
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: October 2007

Title: AsiaSource Interview with Mohini Giri
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: October 2007

Title: Thailand: Moving Toward A More Sustainable and Democratic Future
Date: September 2007

Title: Iran's Foreign Policy: Remarks by H. E. Manuchehr Mottaki, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: September 2007

Title: AsiaSource speaks to Irwandi Yusuf, the Governor of Aceh
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: September 2007

Title: Leslie Gelb on American Foreign Policy
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: June 2007

Title: Australia and APEC in 2007
Date: June 2007

Title: Ariel Cohen on Iraq, Oil, and US Foreign Policy
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: June 2007

Title: Ambassador Sadegh Kharazi on US-Iran Relations and Iraq
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: June 2007

Title: Interview with Thai Health Minister Mongkol Na Songkhla
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: May 2007

Title: Bernard Schwartz Fellow Sadanand Dhume on Political Islam and Indonesia
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: May 2007

Title: Bernard Schwartz Fellow Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on US-India Relations
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: May 2007

Title: AsiaSource Interview with Dr Abdullah Abdullah, former Afghan Foreign Minister
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: May 2007

Title: Famine in North Korea: AsiaSource Interview with Marcus Noland
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: April 2007

Title: AsiaSource Interview with Zahid Hussain
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: March 2007

Title: Exclusive AsiaSource Interview with Ambassador Javad Zarif, Iranian Permanent Representative to the UN
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: February 2007

Title: Asia Society Center on US-China Relations Launch with Henry Kissinger and Orville Schell
Date: February 2007

Title: Interview with Ed Luce: Inspite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: January 2007

Title: Interview with William Nessen, director of "The Black Road: On the Front Line of Aceh's War"
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: December 2006

Title: US Policy in South Asia: Under Secretary Burns
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: November 2006

Title: Interview with Senator John Edwards
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: November 2006

Title: Interview with Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: November 2006

Title: AsiaSource Interview with Under Secretary Nicholas Burns
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: November 2006

Title: The Future of US-China Relations Speech by Senator John Edwards
Authors: John Edwards
Date: October 2006

Title: Sustaining Economic Growth While Combating Social Challenges in Asia
Authors: Tom Vilsack
Date: October 2006

Title: Interview with Ambassador Richard Holbrooke
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: October 2006

Title: Asia Society Analysts Comment on North Korea's Nuclear Tests
Authors: Vishakha N. Desai
Date: October 2006

Title: Speech by South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon at Asia Society: "The Quest for Peace and Prosperity in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond"
Authors: Ban Ki-moon
Date: September 2006

Title: Interview with South Korean Foreign Minister and UN Secretary General-designate Ban Ki-moon
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: September 2006

Title: Interview with Shashi Tharoor, UN Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: September 2006

Title: Interview with Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary General of UNCTAD, and former Director General of the WTO
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: September 2006

Title: Torben Gettermann on the Danish Cartoon Controversy
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: March 2006

Title: José Ramos-Horta on Reconciliation in East Timor
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: March 2006

Title: AsiaSource Interview with Karim Sadjadpour on Iran's Nuclear Aspirations
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: March 2006

Title: Isher Ahluwalia on India in the Global Economy
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: February 2006

Title: A Conversation with Henry Kissinger
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: February 2006

Title: Asma Jahangir: The Military in Pakistan
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: October 2005

Title: Interview with Sam Brownback
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: May 2005

Title: AsiaSource Interview with Seymour Hersh
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: February 2005

Title: AsiaSource Interview with Christopher de Bellaigue
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: February 2005

Title: Development as Freedom: AsiaSource Interview with Amartya Sen
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: December 2004

Title: America Right or Wrong: AsiaSource Interview with Antol Lieven
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: December 2004

Title: Towards a Postcolonial Modernity: AsiaSource Interview with Partha Chatterjee
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: October 2004

Title: Engaging India: AsiaSource Interview With Strobe Talbott
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: October 2004

Title: Asia Society in Context: AsiaSource Interview with Chen Shi-Zheng
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: August 2004

Title: Asia Society in Context: AsiaSource Interview with Shirin Ebadi
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: June 2004

Title: Asia Society in Context: AsiaSource Interview with Nicholas Platt
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: June 2004

Title: ‘The Clay Bird’: AsiaSource Interview with Tareque Masud
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: June 2004

Title: Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: AsiaSource Interview with Mahmood Mamdani
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: May 2004

Title: AsiaSource Interview with Shaukat Aziz, Finance Minister of Pakistan
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: April 2004

Title: The Jew, the Arab: An Interview with Gil Anidjar
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: February 2004

Title: Bush in Babylon: An Interview with Tariq Ali
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: October 2003

Title: Al-Jazeera and Muslim Public Spheres
Authors: Hafez al-Mirazi
Date: September 2003

Title: Interview with Barnett Rubin on Afghanistan
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: May 2003

Title: Matriarchy and Islam Post 9/11: The Case of the Minangkabau of Indonesia
Authors: Peggy Reeves Sanday
Date: April 2003

Title: Civil Liberties after 9/11: An Interview with Dalia Hashad
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: April 2003

Title: Civil Liberties after 9/11: An Interview with Dalia Hashad
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: April 2003

Title: Speeches and Transcripts: 2002
Authors: Dennis C. Blair, Hu Jintao, James A. Kelly, Junichiro Koizumi, Michael G. Kulma, Nicholas R. Lardy, Antony Leung, Mahathir Bin Mohamad, Colin L. Powell, Clark T. Randt, Julie Sommers
Date: December 2002

Title: Interview with Talal Asad, author of Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: December 2002

Title: José Ramos-Horta on the Future of East Timor
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: September 2002

Title: Terrorism Eclipses the Sunshine Policy: Inter-Korean Relations and the United States
Authors: Kongdan Oh
Date: March 2002

Title: Muslim Separatism in the Philippines
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: March 2002

Title: Central Asia on the Brink: An Interview with Ahmed Rashid
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: March 2002

Title: Afghanistan's Reform Agenda: Four Perspectives
Authors: Sima Samar, Frederick Starr, Marvin G. Weinbaum, Mohammed Ehsan Zia
Date: March 2002

Title: Women and Islam: An Interview with Lila Abu-Lughod
Authors: Nermeen Shaikh
Date: February 2002

Title: The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know
Authors: Justin Sommers
Date: November 2001

Title: Kim Dae-Jung's Engagement Policy and the South-South Conflict in South Korea: Implications for U.S. Policy
Authors: Byung-Hoon Suh
Date: June 2001

Title: Political Paralysis: Iran's 2001 Election and the Future of Reform
Authors: Farideh Farhi
Date: May 2001

Title: The Bush Presidency: Implications for Asia
Authors: Murray Hiebert
Date: January 2001

Title: President Clinton's Visit to Vietnam
Authors: Frederick Z. Brown
Date: November 2000

Title: The 2000 Taiwan Presidential Elections
Authors: Cal Clark
Date: March 2000

Title: Speeches and Transcripts: 1999
Authors: Kofi Annan, Howard Balloch, Charlene Barshefsky, Lee P. Brown, Rafael B. Buenaventura, Dominic Casserly, John H. Chang, Morris Chang, Alexander Downer, Stanley Fischer, Jerome S. Fons, Gregg Gibbs, Benjamin A. Gilman, David Ho, John Howard, Gary Hufbauer, Martin S. Indyk, Jim Kolbe, Hoi-Chang Lee, Yong-Keun Lee, Mahathir Mohamad, Mar'ie Muhammad, Hubert Neiss, Lynn Pascoe, Manuel A. Roxas, Kevin Rudd, Amaret Sila-On, Kiatchai Sophastienphong, Lawrence H. Summers, Keizo Takemi, Cyrus R. Vance, Christine Wallich, Harrison Young
Date: December 1999

Title: Yankee Go Home But Take Me With You
Authors: Jairam Ramesh
Date: November 1999

Title: Asian Update: Indonesia's 1999 Elections
Authors: Edward Masters
Date: May 1999

Title: The Asian Economic Crisis
Authors: Frank Ching, Linda Y.C. Lim, Bernardo M. Villegas
Date: February 1999

Title: Asian Update: The Asian Economic Crisis
Authors: Frank Ching, Linda Y.C. Lim, Bernardo M. Villegas
Date: February 1999

Title: Asia's Choice
Authors: Mei-Wei Cheng, Tadao Chino, Jose L. Cuisia, Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II, Joseph E. Estrada, Stanley Fischer, Linda Y. C. Lim, H.E. Gloria Macapagal-Aroyo, Jose Trinidad Pardo, Fidel Valdez Ramos
Date: February 1999

Title: Speeches and Transcripts: 1998
Authors: David L. Aaron, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Madeleine K. Albright, Sartaj Aziz, Max Baucus, Roger Beach, W.F. Birch, W. Wayne Booker, Richard A. Boucher, Sam Brownback, Anson Chan, William Clark, Jon S. Corzine, William M. Daley, Kenneth T. Derr, Edgardo Espiritu, Chok Tong Goh, U Ohn Gyaw, Harry Harding, Carla A. Hills, Soon-young Hong, Tung Chee Hwa, Renana Jhabvala, Kamal Kharrazi, Dae Jung Kim, Chuan Leekpai, Merton H. Miller, H. M. Morgan, Vijai K. Nair, Talbak Nazarov, Moeen Qureshi, Fidel Valdez Ramos, Julie Reinganum, Nafis Sadik, James Sasser, Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, Chatu Mongol Sonakul, Jiaxuan Tang, Donald Tsang, Laila Tyabji, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, George Yeo, Jong-Keun You
Date: December 1998

Title: South Asia After the Tests
Authors: Marshall Bouton, Asia Society
Date: July 1998

Title: The 1998 Sino-American Summit
Authors: Robert S. Ross
Date: June 1998

Title: Hong Kong One Year After Transition
Authors: Anson Chan, Ronnie Chan, Frank Ching, Michael C. Davis, Jennifer Dunn, David K.P. Li, Gary Locke, Christine Loh, Yok Sing Tsang, Y.C. Richar Wong
Date: June 1998

Title: Hong Kong: The Challenges of Change
Authors: Jeffrey Fischer, Hugh J. Ivory, Yi-zheng Lian, James T. H. Tang
Date: May 1998

Title: Cambodia's Political Future: Issues for U.S. Policy
Authors: Catharin E. Dalpino, David G. Timberman
Date: March 1998

Title: India's 12th National Elections
Authors: Ashutosh Varshney
Date: February 1998

Title: Growing Pains: ASEAN's Economic and Political Challenges
Authors: Manuel F. Montes, Kevin F. F. Quigley, Donald E. Weatherbee
Date: December 1997

Title: The 1997 Korean Presidential Elections
Authors: Chaibong Hahm, Robert A. Scalapino, David I. Steinberg
Date: November 1997

Title: The 1997 Sino-American Summit
Authors: David Shambaugh
Date: October 1997

Title: Speeches and Transcripts: 1997
Authors: Frederick Z. Brown, William Clinton, William Itoh, Jiang Zemin
Date: January 1997

Title: The Philippines at the Crossroads
Authors: Paul D. Hutchcroft
Date: November 1996

Title: Bridges with Asia: Asian Americans in the United States
Authors: Vishakha N. Desai, Robert T. Matsui, Chang-lin Tien, Sanford J. Ungar, Shirley Young
Date: May 1996

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Reports

Title: High Tech: The Next Wave of Chinese Investment in America
Authors: Thilo Hanemann, Daniel H. Rosen
Date: April 2014

Title: The United States and South Asia After Afghanistan
Authors: Alexander Evans
Date: December 2012

Title: Delivering Environmentally Sustainable Economic Growth: The Case of China
Authors: Junjie Zhang
Date: September 2012

Title: Stabilizing Pakistan through Police Reform
Authors: Hassan Abbas (ed)
Date: July 2012

Title: Central Asia's Crisis of Governance
Authors: Philip Shishkin
Date: January 2012

Title: Pakistan 2020: A Vision for Building a Better Future
Authors: Hassan Abbas
Date: May 2011

Title: Never an Empty Bowl: Sustaining Food Security in Asia
Authors: Dan Glickman, M.S. Swaminathan
Date: September 2010

Title: A Roadmap for U.S.-China Collaboration on Carbon Capture and Sequestration
Date: November 2009

Title: Back from the Brink? A Strategy for Stabilizing Afghanistan-Pakistan
Authors: Thomas Pickering (Co-Chair), Barnett Rubin (Co-Chair)
Date: April 2009

Title: Asia's Next Challenge: Securing the Region's Water Future
Authors: Tommy , Koh (Chairman)
Date: April 2009

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