China’s Support Enables North Korea’s ‘Bad Behavior,’ Panelists Say
North Korea’s attempted rocket launch in April was just the latest example of a country accustomed to reneging on international agreements, a panel of security experts told the East-West Center...
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Public Key To Overcoming Corruption
Corruption is a common fact of life in many places, but it can be fought and conquered by the right combination of political will and a full dose of understanding about how corruption inevitably pays...
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South China Sea: Not Just About ‘Free Navigation’ – Analysis
By Denny Roy The South China Sea territorial dispute increasingly looks like a point of strategic friction between the United States and China after a recent nasty exchange between the two governments....
View ArticleAmbassador Richard Verma On The Road Ahead For US-India Relations – Speech
By US Ambassador Richard Verma In 1947 as Jackie Robinson was getting ready to play his first major league game, and our government was rolling out the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine, the Indian...
View ArticleChina’s Non-Military Maritime Assets As A Force Multiplier For Security –...
By Justin Chock* In 2012, China’s 18th Party Congress set the overall goal of building China into a “strong maritime power,” and the 2015 China National Military Strategy makes a bold call that “the...
View ArticleTrans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreed – OpEd
Last week in Atlanta, the trade ministers of Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam, announced that they had...
View ArticleRealist Indonesia’s Drift Away From ASEAN – Analysis
By Vibhanshu Shekhar* ASEAN’s nightmares are never‐ending. While it is struggling to keep itself united amidst enormous pressure from the members pursuing divergent interests, its largest and most...
View ArticleConcern Over British Red Carpet For China’s President Xi – OpEd
A ‘new golden era’ between ‘new global partners’ with the UK wanting to be China’s ‘best friend in the West’ – these were just a few of the headlines surrounding the visit of China’s President Xi to...
View ArticleVietnam Bird Flu Study Confirms Urban Fringes Hot Spots For Emergence Of...
A study led by East-West Center researchers and funded by the National Science Foundation has confirmed suspicions that “peri-urban” areas at the outer fringes of cities are particular hot spots for...
View ArticlePACOM’s Role In Sustaining Indo-Asia-Pacific Security – Analysis
By Paul Lushenko and Jon Lushenko* As the successful completion of negotiations on the Trans‐Pacific Partnership (TPP) free‐trade deal – the economic pillar of President Obama’s rebalance to Asia –...
View ArticleMongolia Reassesses Foreign Policy Strategies After 25 Years Of Democracy –...
By Alicia Campi Mongolia is spending 2015 celebrating 25 years of democracy while reassessing its progress in nation building and economic development. Mongolia’s government, as it enters into a...
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Ethnic Struggles Are Central To Burma’s Future – Analysis
By David I. Steinberg For the past 20 years, foreign interest in Burma, or Myanmar, has been understandably concentrated on the problems of democracy and human rights. Although this is of continuing...
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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...
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