This report--and the series--bring together and compare responses from a variety of perspectives and nationalities to a set of questions on Asia Pacific regional security. The information compiled from the survey provides ...

Contents: Preface / Charles E. Morrison -- Foreword / Fereidun Fesharaki -- The Asia-Pacific energy dilemma / Kang Wu, Jeffrey G. Brown, Toufiq A. Siddiqi -- The environmental context of energy / Toufiq A. Siddiqi -- Oil ...

Just prior to the Copenhagen climate summit, China pledged to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45% by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels to help reach an international climate change agreement at Copenhagen or beyond. This ...

A recent analysis covering income-inequality data from 92 countries over four decades suggests that inequality tends to increase at early stages of economic development and fall at later stages. The most important determinant ...

After centuries of male domination in much of Asia, women's lives are improving with economic development, social modernization, and better access to health and family planning technology. Yet many Asian women still face ...