East Asia Insights | Beware the US-Japan Alliance China Gap
Amid the intensifying rivalry between the United States and China, Japan finds itself in an increasingly
delicate situation, caught between its security guarantor and its leading economic partner. As a staunch
ally of the United States, Japan is committed to reinforcing the alliance framework to deter unilateral
changes to the status quo and uphold regional stability.
Trilateral Commission | 2022 Asia Pacific Group Regional Meeting
The Asia Pacific Group of the Trilateral Commission held its annual regional meeting in Tokyo, gathering leaders from around the globe to promote dialogue on key issues facing the international community.
JCIE Publications | The Pacific Community Concept: A Select Annotated Bibliography
The bibliography includes journal articles, conference papers, pamphlets, books, and newsletters, which demonstrate the broad interest in the concept of a Pacific community.
Dialogue and Research Monitor
This multi-volume publication monitored policy-relevant dialogue and research throughout East Asia for more than a decade with the goal of understanding the ongoing efforts by policy research institutions, policy thinkers, and public intellectuals to strengthen the emerging regional community.
JCIE Publications | Asian Reflections on a New World after 9-11
This is a collection of six presentations given at the Fifth Global ThinkNet Conference on the prospects for Asia Pacific and the world order after the 9-11 attacks, with an emphasis on the role of think tanks and public intellectuals. It also includes a summary of the subsequent discussions.
Insights | New Frameworks for Northeast Asian Security: Bilateral Alliances and Multilateral Unofficial Talks
This Global Thinknet Insights publication gives an overview of National Defense Academy Professor Masashi Nishihara’s stance on how to improve security approaches to Northeast Asia.
JCIE Publications | Emerging Civil Society in the Asia Pacific Community
This book is a compilation of reports written by leading intellectuals and specialists from 15 Asia Pacific countries on the focus of activities at the research institutions, foundations, and nongovernmental organizations of their respective countries.
Strong ASEAN-Japan Ties Important to Global Stability
Partnership between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Japan must be enhanced far beyond economic means in anticipation of the ASEAN Community, set to be effective in 2015, when the region is expected to play a more determinant role in global security, say analysts.
Japan Alone Cannot Guard or Sustain Peace
When one speaks of turmoil on the Korean Peninsula, it’s usually in reference to North Korea, not South Korea. But Itsunori Onodera, who stepped down as Japan’s defense minister in September 2014, has some concerns with Seoul’s “provocative” actions toward Pyongyang.
Fourth Intellectual Dialogue on Building Asia’s Tomorrow
The Fourth Intellectual Dialogue on Building Asia’s Tomorrow was held on March 16–17, 2002, in Kisarazu, Japan, on the theme of “Health and Human Security: Moving from Concept to Action.” It had been stressed at previous meetings that in order to further advance the international debate on human security, more practical policy discussions were required and that this could best be accomplished by examining in-depth case studies of effective responses to specific human security threats.