Trilateral Commission

Founded in 1973, the Trilateral Commission is a nongovernmental forum of leading private citizens from Europe, North America, and Japan (now including all of Asia Pacific) that aims to promote mutual understanding and closer cooperation on common problems facing these three major democratic, industrialized regions of the world.

JCIE Publication | A Growing Force: Civil Society’s Role in Asian Regional Security

The authors explore the role of civil society organizations in responding to security threats in the five areas of piracy, disaster relief, human trafficking, health, and climate change, in order to analyze their effectiveness and what can be done to make them more successful.

JCIE Publication | A Pacific Nation: Perspectives on the US Role in an East Asia Community

In this volume, experts from Asia and the United States explore the latest changes in US involvement in regional affairs and analyze the region’s divergent perspectives on the role that the US should play in a new East Asia community.

JCIE Publications | Asia on the Move: Regional Migration and the Role of Civil Society

Experts analyze migration trends in China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia; government efforts to manage this movement; and the role of NGOs in helping to protect migrants and to harness migration to benefit the region.

JCIE Publications | East Asia at a Crossroads

This book analyzes the dynamics of regional community building and proposes ways of moving forward to enhance regional peace and prosperity while strengthening East Asia’s capacity to meet its growing responsibilities.

JCIE Publications | Engaging Russia in Asia Pacific

This study suggest how Asian countries could exhibit their commitment to engaging Russia in Asia Pacific, as Russia undergoes a transformation in the post-cold war world.

JCIE Publications | Getting the Triangle Straight: Managing China-Japan-US Relations

In this volume, experts and emerging scholars from China, Japan, and the United States analyze the trilateral relationship and offer recommendations to better manage the volatile dynamics of trilateral relations.

JCIE Publications | New Challenges, New Approaches: Regional Security Cooperation in East Asia

Experts explore new challenges related to nontraditional security threats in East Asia, analyze the capacity of existing regional mechanisms to deal with them, and offer recommendations on the necessary steps to create a more secure region in today’s world.

JCIE Publications | Major Power Relations in Northeast Asia

This publication, the result of a study on the “China-Japan-US Research and Dialogue Project,” contains essays by six American analysts in a multinational team identifying the challenges to productive and peaceful relations among China, Japan, and the United States.

JCIE Publications | Presence and Perceptions: The Underpinnings of ASEAN-Japan Relations

This book analyzes the Japanese presence and local perceptions of Japan in four Southeast Asian nations and Japanese views of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).