RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Richard C. Bush III, January 31, 2012, The Brookings Institution
Richard Bush examines the varied responses of East Asian countries to the recent pivot or re-balancing of U.S. policy, and what this means for China’s future course in the region. Read More
PAST EVENT
Thursday, November 10, 2011
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Washington, DC
For decades, the Vietnam War has had a significant influence on American foreign and military policy. On November 10, Foreign Policy at Brookings hosted a discussion of the Vietnam War’s legacy and its decades-long influence on presidential decision-making. Brookings Guest Scholar and former CBS News correspondent Marvin Kalb spoke about his new book, Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama (Brookings Press, 2011). Brookings Journalist in Residence Ron Nessen, former NBC News correspondent in Vietnam, discussed his book, Making the News, Taking the News: From NBC to the Ford White House (Wesleyan University Press, 2011). Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jonathan Pollack, November 09, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Jonathan Pollack writes on President Obama's upcoming trip across the Pacific, with stops at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, the U.S.-ASEAN Summit, the East Asia Summit, and in Australia. While the president will focus on America’s enduring commitment to regional diplomacy, economics and security, Pollack argues that the immobilized political process in Washington, D.C. could diminish the seriousness of this strategic purpose. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Kongdan Oh, November 04, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Kongdan Oh previews South Korea's role in the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) organization meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. Oh highlights some innovative programs that that South Korea will showcase at the meeting, demonstrating how APEC can be used to advance development around the world. Read More
PAST EVENT
Monday, October 17, 2011
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Washington, DC
The U.S. defense budget faces cuts of up to $350 billion over the next decade and may face an additional $500 billion in cuts if the bipartisan congressional “super committee” fail to agree on an overall deficit reduction plan. On October 17, the 21st Century Defense Initiative and the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings hosted a discussion on East Asia in the context of a declining U.S. defense budget and recent major security developments in China, Japan, Korea and throughout Southeast Asia. The panel discussed key U.S. alliance partnerships, military base questions and arms export decisions. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Vanda Felbab-Brown, June 2011, The Brookings Institution
Southeast Asia is rapidly becoming one of the world’s "wildlife trade hotspots," despite the enormous threat this illicit activity poses to the area’s biodiversity and species preservation. Vanda Felbab-Brown offers a broad set policy recommendations that form a regulatory structure to counteract the detrimental effects of this market and enhance conservation. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Elizabeth Ferris, June 06, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Elizabeth Ferris reflects on her recent trips to Japan and Fiji, offering insights on how a large and powerful country deals with a major natural disaster, and how the entire region is affected. Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Washington, DC
At the 11th Party Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam in January 2011, leaders mapped out Vietnam’s direction for the next five years and beyond in all areas. On May 17, the Brookings Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies hosted an event with Visiting Fellow Tuan Minh Ta. Ta presented his perspective on what has and has not changed in Vietnam’s politics and foreign policy after the 11th Party Congress, and assessed the challenges that Vietnam’s leaders must address. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Homi Kharas, Hamdan Abdul Majeed and Albert Zeufack, May 06, 2011, Khazanah Nasional Berhad
Declines in tourism, a dwindling economy and rising unemployment have all contributed to Penang's stalled growth and development issues as this Malaysian state remains caught in a “middle income trap.” Penang can no longer rely on cheap labor, subsidized infrastructure and low-tech manufacturing. Homi Kharas, Albert Zeufack and Hamdan Abdul Majeed explain why Penang, and by extension Malaysia, must focus on developing a growth strategy based on cities, people and the economy. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
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Friday, May 06, 2011
To raise the awareness of Pacific Island States and regional actors on internal displacement caused by natural disasters, the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Regional Office for the Pacific, and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific convened a one-day conference on "Internal Displacement due to Natural Disasters and Climate Change."
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Lex Rieffel, April 05, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Today Myanmar, still referred to by many as Burma, remains one of the poorest, unhealthiest, defectively governed countries in the world. Although a new government was recently sworn in, many insist that nothing has changed. Lex Rieffel explains Myanmar/Burma's political struggles and why the United States should take vested interest in helping the country toward prosperity and democracy. Read More
VIDEO
Bruce Riedel, January 07, 2011
Despite the Obama administration’s recent announcement to send 1,400 additional Marines to Afghanistan, the U.S. plan to start drawing down troops in July 2011 remains in place. Bruce Riedel says too few resources were committed to the Afghanistan war from the beginning, and that the U.S. relationship with Pakistan is the real prize in the region.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Riedel, December 16, 2010, The Brookings Institution
Bruce Riedel says that the Obama administration is appropriately modest in describing the progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan. While we are far from success, we are no longer at the precipice of defeat and strategic disaster as we were when the president inherited the war in January 2009. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Lex Rieffel, November 2010, The Brookings Institution
Lex Rieffel examines possible paths Burma might follow after its November 7 election. Rieffel argues that Western approaches to dealing with Burma's repressive regime, which focus on the use of economic sanctions, and Asian approaches, which focus on dialogue and engagement, have canceled each other out in terms of promoting better governance. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda, October 2010, The Brookings Institution
Is the global economic recovery on track or are we in a lull before the next phase of the storm? While this question dominates the present global economic debate, we need to first know where the world economy currently stands. In a new index and interactive map from the Brookings Institution and the Financial Times, Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda track the global economy recovery based on a set of macroeconomic, financial, and confidence variables for the G-20 economies. Read More