Strategic Assistance: Disaster Relief and Asia-Pacific Stability | Workshop I
A Washington DC workshop held as part of the Strategic Assistance Project, a collaborative research project of the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) and JCIE, discussed how to develop an alliance-based approach to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR) operations in South and Southeast Asia by engaging and incorporating military, government, and NGO leadership from the United States and Japan.
Seminar: ASEAN-Japan Strategic Partnership and Regional Community Building
In 2012, JCIE worked with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Jakarta to launch a new project intended to compile policy recommendations on the ASEAN-Japan Strategic Partnership beyond 2015. These recommendations were presented at a special meeting in November 2013 that was convened to celebrate 40 years of ASEAN-Japan friendship and collaboration.
JCIE Publications | The United States, Japan, and Asia: Challenges for US Policy
Leading Asia scholars examine major issues facing the US and Japan, including economic disputes and the lack of strong political leadership in Japan. It suggests multinational economic and security mechanisms, as well as possible US policies that could promote stability and economic cooperation.
JCIE Publications | Rethinking Energy Security in East Asia
Leading experts from Japan, Russia, China, the US, South Korea, Taiwan, and Malaysia analyze various energy security issues; examples include the “classical” energy security questions of supply and demand, as well as the ecological and human security consequences of growing energy use in the region.
East Asia Insights | East Asia Community Building: Toward an “East Asia Security Forum”
This issue recommends the creation of an “East Asia Security Forum” in order to enhance cooperation between states in a wider range of areas would greatly facilitate the realization of a more cooperative, comprehensive, and stable regional community.
East Asia Insights | Defining Normalcy: The Future Course of Japan’s Foreign Policy
This issue addresses the widespread misconceptions of what is “normal” for Japan, and the future of Japanese foreign policy, which aims to reconcile the need for leaders to actively pursue the national interest in a transforming global context with recognition of normative and legal constraints.
East Asia Insights | Reinvigorating US-Japan Relations
This issue discusses the perception gap underlying US-Japan relations, which has put the relationship in crisis in the 50 years since the revised US-Japan Security Treaty was signed.
