The National Asia Research Program

NBR and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars have partnered to launch the National Asia Research Program (NARP), a major national research and conference program designed to reinvigorate and promote the policy-relevant study of Asia.

In April 2010, the program selected a premier group of National Asia Research Associates and Fellows, nominated by U.S. research organizations and higher learning institutions with top programs on Asia. On June 17-18, 2010, NBR and the Wilson Center hosted the Research Associates and Fellows at the Asia Policy Assembly, a major conference on contemporary Asia Studies in Washington, D.C. The Assembly brought together experts from the academic, philanthropic, and policymaking communities and provided a major forum for these stakeholders to discuss the full range of issues of strategic importance to U.S. policy interests in Asia. At the 2010 Assembly, NBR and the Wilson Center awarded the inaugural $50,000 Scalapino prize in honor of renowned Asia scholar Robert Scalapino, who is arguably America’s foremost scholar of Asia over the past 60 years. The Scalapino Prize will be presented at each subsequent Asia Policy Assembly.