The economic crises in Thailand, South Korea, Indonesia, and Japan have focused attention on the region's economic problems as well as its well-documented success. One potential problem is satiating these economies' increasing demand for energy. This problem has been made even more pressing by...

The debate on European security over the past several years has focused almost exclusively on the question of whether, and to which countries, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should expand its membership. With the near certainty of NATO Parliaments ratifying the admission to NATO...

These papers were prepared as background papers for the May 1994 meeting of hte NEACD in Tokyo. They neither represent a consensus of the participants nor a summary of any part of the discussions at any of the meetings. They are presented here in the hopes that other readers outside of the NEACD...

In conjunction with its meeting in Seoul in September 1996, NEACD hosted a two-day workshop on Northeast Asia energy issues that brought together leading experts from the participating countries on energy demand and supply, nuclear fuel cycle concerns, and how these issues impact upon the...

The paper includes brief policy memos commissioned for the March 1994 IGCC conference, "The United States and Japan in Asia." Issue areas included politics and security, economics, science, technology, and the environment, and humna rights.

This policy paper is part of the “Arms Control and Security Improvement in the Middle East†workshop series, sponsored by the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) of the University of California. The project is a Track II (unofficial) activity which indirectly supports...

The track record of "preventive diplomacy" in the first years of the post-Cold War era is not particularly encouraging. Croatia, Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, Nagorno-Karabakh, Chechnya, Tajikistan, “Kurdistanâ€â€”the list goes on to include over 90 armed conflicts since the fall of the...

Confrontations between China and other rival claimants in the South China Sea have gained increasing prominence in regional and international media, most recently during a 2012 standoff between Manila and Beijing over sovereignty of the Scarborough Shoals. The potential for...