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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center in Washington, 2012-03-13)Elina Noor, Assistant Director, Foreign Policy and Security Studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia, explains that “The reality is that below the stratosphere of grand strategy, the ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-07-21)John R. Malott, former US Ambassador to Malaysia, writes that there is a tendency among Americans to hold an idealized image of Malaysia as a successful multi-racial and multi-religious paradise, an Asian economic dynamo, ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center in Washington, 2012-07-26)Alicia Campi, Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington and President of the US-Mongolia Advisory Group, writes that “The secretary said that she was inspired by the Mongolian people’s commitment to democracy ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center, 2012-11-01)Alicia Campi, recent Asian Studies Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington and President of the US-Mongolia Advisory Group, explains that "Mongolia's extensive experience in manipulating the ambitions of ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-04-28)The last few years have witnessed a regular stream of irritants in Sino-Indian interactions. Even bilateral trade, once regarded as the pillar of their rapprochement, has been losing its shine with a rising trade deficit ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center in Washington, 2011-07-26)The US-Japan Security Consultative Committee, or the so-called "2+2" meeting between foreign and defense cabinet level officials convened in Washington, D.C. in late June. Media attention centered on the delay of the ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-07-12)The rise of China poses many questions, foremost of which is will a powerful China be a responsible member of the international community, complying with established rules and norms of the current global system? Or will ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center in Washington, 2012-04-03)Nick Bisley, Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University, Australia, and Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington, explains that “Australia has made up its mind about its strategic policy: it ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center, 2012-12-04)Catharin Dalpino, Sharkey Fellow in the Whitehead School at Seton Hall University, explains that "One concrete and immediate answer [to the purpose of the US-Thai alliance in the 21st century] was Bangkok's announcement ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-11-18)US President Barack Obama’s APEC summit in Hawai‘i clearly speeds up the tempo of the US “back to Asia strategy.” It is obvious that no other region of the world, in Obama’s mind, is more vital to the long-term interests ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center, 2013-04-24)Alok Bansal, Executive Director of the South Asian Institute for Strategic Affairs in New Delhi, explains that “The window of opportunity for the Pakistani state to contain the growing influence of the TTP in Karachi is ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-11-10)The clumsy manner in which Pakistan announced that it would grant the trade status of Most Favored Nation (MFN) to India indicates the political significance of this decision. Two days after the official announcement, other ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center, 2013-04-25)Yogesh Joshi, Ph.D Candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Frank O’Donnell, Ph.D Candidate at King’s College London, explain that “The paradox for the international community is that a strong military ensures the ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center in Washington, 2012-07-17)Robert Ayson, Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand, and David Capie, Senior Lecturer at the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, both at the Victoria University ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-08-10)Malaysia captured international headlines with the July 9 Bersih rally for clean and fair elections. However, it was not so much the rally itself—estimated to have included as many as 50,000 people—as it was the woeful ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-07-01)In the wake of the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power plant failure that devastated large parts of Northeastern Japan, Prime Minister Naoto Kan announced the formation of the Reconstruction Design ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center in Washington, 2012-05-24)Justina Chen, Research and Policy Analyst at the Centre for Public Policy Studies (CPPS), Malaysia, explains that “The manner in which the 13th general election is conducted will set the stage for Malaysia’s democratic ...
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(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-11-03)This year’s Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) successfully showed that it can attract major global and regional actors, including high-level delegations from the United States and the People’s Republic of China. Gerard A. Finin, ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center, 2013-04-30)Llewelyn Hughes, recent Japan Studies Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington, explains that "The clean energy innovation agenda announced by the US and Japanese governments in their Shared Vision for the ...
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(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center, 2013-02-26)Julio S. Amador III, Foreign Affairs Research Specialist at the Foreign Service Institute of the Philippines, explains that the recent grounding in Filipino waters of the USS Guardian, “[s]hows just how delicate managing ...