Paper presented for a panel at the XVII Pacific Science Congress held in Honolulu, Hawaii, May 27-June 2, 1991. Contents: 1. Creating the forest: Dayak resource management in Kalimantan / Christine Padoch -- 2. Borean ...

The refrain of Bob Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man goes “Because something is happening here but you don’t know what it is do you, Mr. Jones?” The same could be said about the current state of affairs in Thailand after the ...

The effects of Singapore's May 7th election are still being felt in this global city state. When the results came in, the incumbent People's Action Party (PAP) had marked its worst performance since independence, losing ...

The Guidelines on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (COP) agreement reached between the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China at the ASEAN Summit in ...

Following a decade-long impasse, the Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone is finally on a path to being endorsed by the world’s five recognized nuclear-weapon states—China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the ...

Denny Roy, Senior Research Fellow at the East-West Center, argues that "An ROK nuclear weapons capability would impose a meaningful penalty on the DPRK for its nuclear weapons program."

Once impoverished, South Korea is now an economically powerful and influential country. It is also increasingly democratic, and this month inaugurates its first popularly elected, civilian president in three decades, Kim ...