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Strategic Asia 2010-11: Asia’s Rising Power and America’s Continued Purpose marks the tenth anniversary edition of NBR’s Strategic Asia series and takes stock of the Strategic Asia region by providing an integrated perspective on the major issues that influence stability in the region. In this volume, leading experts examine Asia’s performance in nine key functional areas to provide a continent-wide net assessment of the core trends and issues affecting the region.
Free until August 31, 2011
Asia Policy 12 includes a roundtable on U.S. re-engagement with Asia; articles on China's economic boom, ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan, and Japanese foreign policy; a Q&A; on political change in the DPRK; and reviews of recent books.
Using a cost-benefit approach, Robert Sutter argues in this issue of the NBR Analysis that though cross-strait relations are on the upswing, by forging deeper relations with China, Taiwan may be losing its freedom of action and giving itself little choice beyond continued accommodation of China’s increasing leverage.
Free until September 26, 2011
This report highlights findings from the National Bureau of Asian Research’s three-year project “Maritime Energy Resources in Asia: Opportunities for Joint Development,” which assesses maritime jurisdictional disputes and opportunities for cooperation in East and Southeast Asia.
The Strategic Asia annual edited volume incorporates assessments of economic, political, and military trends and focuses on the strategies that drive policy in the region.
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The NBR Analysis is an occasional paper series that offers thought-provoking essays on the most important economic, political, and strategic issues in the Asia-Pacific region today.
NBR Special Reports are an occasional paper series on special topics conducted by the world's leading experts in Asian affairs.
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