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After Bin Laden, Key U.S.-Pakistan Questions
The U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan has made the two countries’ already complicated relationship even more difficult. Pakistan expert Dr. Shabbir Cheema, director of Governance and...
View ArticleJournalists Explore Root Causes Of Extremism In Pakistan
Extremism in Pakistan cannot be defeated until the Pakistani government, as well as its uneasy ally, the United States, focus on addressing the underlying causes of rising militancy, according to...
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India’s Farming Failure – Analysis
By Sarosh Bana India’s failure in agriculture is coming under increased scrutiny as soaring food inflation ravages the common man and cripples household incomes. Spiraling food bills were the focus of...
View ArticleAsia’s Top Security Threats – Analysis
By Denny Roy In recent decades, East Asia has commanded increasing international attention as the center of world economic growth. The regional peace upon which that prosperity rests, however, is...
View ArticleChina Not Immediate Threat To US Technology Leadership
Contrary to common misperceptions, China’s innovation policies do not pose a threat to U.S. leadership in science and technology, East-West Center economist Dieter Ernst said today in testimony before...
View ArticleA New Beginning In Thailand? – OpEd
By Charles E. Morrison The recent elections in Thailand have opened yet another chapter in the ongoing Thai political drama, as the Pheu Thai Party, associated with controversial former prime minister...
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Writing The Next Chapter In U.S.-India Relations
Indian-Americans have contributed much to the fabric of American society, and will “help write the next chapter of the U.S.-India partnership,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a...
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Asia’s Changing Health Landscape – Analysis
By Nancy Lewis Like most of the world, Asia Pacific nations face competing challenges as they plan health policies for the years ahead. Outbreaks of new and re-emerging infectious diseases like SARS...
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Adapting To The Rise Of ‘Sino-Capitalism’– Analysis
By Christopher A. McNally With China now ranking as the world’s second-largest economy, its state-guided development model is gaining increasing appeal among other emerging economies in Asia, Africa...
View ArticleConfronting East Asia’s Growing Income Inequality
Over the last half-century, East Asia’s dramatic economic growth has fundamentally altered global economic and political landscapes, as the region’s primary economies grew from among the poorest to...
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Who Will Write The Rules For Asia-Pacific Trade? – Analysis
By Peter A. Petri In the last half century, world trade has grown twice as fast as output and helped to lift the majority of the world’s people from poverty—a feat unimaginable a generation ago. When...
View ArticleVietnam President: Interest In Taking Relationship With US To ‘Next Level’
U.S. and Vietnamese officials will be meeting this week to discuss how to take the relationship between the two countries “to the next level” and move forward on a strategic bilateral partnership, the...
View ArticleMalaysian Prime Minister Calls For ‘Movement Of Moderates’
In a speech at the East-West Center, Malaysia’s Prime Minister called for a global “movement of the moderates…to drown out the extremists,” and said his country will kick off such a movement with an...
View ArticleNorth Korea’s Uncertain Transition
In the wake of dictator Kim Jong-Il’s death and the succession of his young son Kim Jong-Un, a panel of experts said earlier this weekythat North Korea is unlikely to either collapse immediately or...
View ArticleNew Strategic Partners US And Vietnam Begin Tough Trade Talks – OpEd
By Raymond Burghardt Vietnamese and Americans joined together in Hanoi last December for a happy celebration, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the entrance into force of the US-Vietnam Bilateral...
View ArticleBehind North Korea’s Rocket Launch, Economic Turmoil – OpEd
By Marcus Noland With global attention focused on North Korea’s attempted launch today of a multi-stage rocket, it’s worth also taking a look at the other claim the Pyongyang regime has long made for...
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Re-Setting Pakistan-US Engagement – Analysis
By Shabbir Cheema On April 12, Pakistan’s National Assembly unanimously approved a new set of guidelines on relations with the United States, an action that could pave the way for the reopening of...
View ArticleLeading Urban-Issues Columnist Establishes Website To Boost Coverage Of...
The tendency of urban news media to focus on short-term problems and breaking events – while giving short shrift to promising long-term innovations and solutions – has been a “serious media failure,”...
View ArticleAl Jazeera Social Media Head Speaks On New Media And The Arab Spring
Speaking at a pace that mirrored the speed of a Twitter feed, Riyaad Minty, head of social media for Al Jazeera, shared lessons from the Arab Spring with more than 300 journalists at the East-West...
View ArticleBurma: Journalists ‘Cautiously Optimistic’
In Burma, articles are screened prior to publication and a government body exists to monitor media, but three Burmese journalists expressed cautious optimism Friday at the East-West Center’s...
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