Energy and Security in East Asia
This multinational study aimed to assess how East Asian countries in general and China in particular will satisfy their enormous appetites for energy and energy-related security concerns. A second objective was to bring a range of Asian perspectives to the debate, which has in general been dominated by American experts. The group met in Tokyo for two workshops, resulting in a published volume.
Engaging Russia in Asia Pacific
In 1997, JCIE launched the multinational project titled “Engaging Russia in Asia Pacific” as part of the Asia Pacific Agenda Project (APAP). Under the leadership of Koji Watanabe, a multinational team of eight researchers evaluated the prospects for Russia’s participation in Asia. Papers were presented at a May 1998 conference held in Cebu, Philippines, and were published in 1999 in an edited volume.
Engaging the United States in an Emerging East Asia Community
In cooperation with the United States Asia Pacific Council, JCIE launched a joint study and dialogue in 2004 that explores Asian actors’ incentives, goals, and visions of regional community; potential US reactions; and ways of guiding community-building efforts so that they meet the interests of all parties by enhancing stability and prosperity in the region.
Asia Pacific Agenda Project (APAP)
The Asia Pacific Agenda Project (APAP) is a multinational consortium of policy research organizations and academic institutions designed to strengthen networks and enhance joint research and dialogue among institutions and intellectual leaders in the Asia Pacific. It also aims to train young scholars as the future leaders of international policy-related research.
Governance and Sustainable Systems of Development
This project, part of the Asia Pacific Agenda Project (APAP), was launched in February 1998 and assessed the sources of the Asian crisis by focusing on the concepts of governance and sustainable development, exploring the different levels of governance, criteria for “good governance,” determinants of a sound financial system, and the possible impact of environmental and natural resource limits on growth.
Hiroshima G7 Global Health Task Force
In 2023, Japan will host the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, the “City of Peace.” Ahead of the Summit, JCIE has established the Hiroshima G7 Global Health Task Force under the Executive Committee on Global Health and Human Security to make recommendations to the Japanese government on the G7 agenda and concrete measures to be promoted for global health in the context of the rapidly changing global health architecture.
Global ThinkNet Fellows | New Approaches to Preventive Diplomacy
Five Global ThinkNet Fellows undertook a study project on preventive diplomacy under the direction of Dr. Hideo Sato, senior advisor to the rector of United Nations University. In October 1999, these researchers began examining such topics as UN peacekeeping activities; the peace-building process in Croatia; the international commitment to solve refugee problems; reconceptualizing the concept of state-nation relationship in Asia; and a new approach to the democratization process in Belarus.
Global ThinkNet Fellows | Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy Options
This project was launched in June 1996 as the first of the study groups organized to promote policy-related contributions from Japanese researchers under the Global ThinkNet Fellows Program. Under the guidance of Professor Masashi Nishihara, six young and promising political scientists examined Japan’s foreign and security policy options for the 21st century.
JWLI-JCIE/USA COVID-19 Joint Philanthropic Initiative
JCIE has partnered with the Japanese Women’s Leadership Initiative and the Fish Family Foundation to facilitate small grants to nonprofit organizations in Japan to help them respond to the needs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
G7 2016 Global Health Working Group
As host of the G7 Summit in 2016, Japan has the unique opportunity to set the tone for how global health priorities will be addressed in the summit agenda and help articulate how they will be formulated within the post-development framework. In order to capitalize on this opportunity and the growing momentum surrounding UHC as an increasingly important global priority, JCIE, in partnership with the University of Tokyo, has organized a Global Health Working Group (GHWG) to formulate policy proposals that will guide talks on global health.
