. The overall objective of the paper is to describe the current agricultural situation in North Korea, South Korea, China …, and Japan with reference to the issues of food security and agricultural cooperation. The paper will succinctly describe …

In China, discussions of defense transparency usually revolve around China’s defense affairs and those of its …

domestic political structures—played in shaping the security and economic policy responses of Japan, Korea, and … Thailand towards China between 1992 and 2008. In all three countries, prioritization of national security in economic terms led elites …

Structural change in the international order will have the greatest effect in East Asia with the ascendancy of China … as a world economic power. A two-pillar post- Cold War policy of “shaping†China into a model country while â …€œhedging†against its potential as a strategic rival has had to give way under the reality that China is not only an actor “to be …

Among the various innovations introduced under the new National Defense Program Guidelines released by Japan in 2010 …, the most important is the “Dynamic Defense Force†concept, which will enable the Japan Self-Defense Forces to operate …

The paper includes brief policy memos commissioned for the March 1994 IGCC conference, "The United States and Japan in …