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ASIAN ENERGY SECURITY NETWORK DAILY REPORT, December 16, 2003
LATEST REPORT Tuesday, December 16, 2003 Content China’s Energy Future Cross-Border Oil and Gas Pipelines DPRK Refugees DPRK Energy Imports Russian-PRC-ROK Oil Deal DPRK and the Gas Pipeline Route Natural Gas Trading in Asia Current Status of the ROK Energy Market 1. China’s Energy Future This report was prepared for the Department of Energy […]
Go to the articleCivil Society and the Future of Environmental Governance in Asia
Lyuba Zarsky CoDirector Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development and Simon SC Tay Singapore Institute of International Affairs April 2000 Published in: D. Angel and M. Rock, eds., Asia’s Clean Revolution: Industry, Growth and the Environment, Sheffield, U.K.: Greenleaf Publishing, 2001. Abstract This paper explores the role that civil society could play as a […]
Go to the articleTMD AND NORTHEAST ASIAN SECURITY
“East Asian Regional Security Futures: Theater Missile Defense Implications” The United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, June 24-5, 2000 TMD AND NORTHEAST ASIAN SECURITYby Shinichi OGAWAAbstract The rationale for Theater Missile Defense (TMD) in East Asia is to ensure military cooperation among U.S. allies by reducing the risks of intimidation from ballistic missiles and to secure […]
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“East Asian Regional Security Futures: Theater Missile Defense Implications” The United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, June 24-5, 2000 TMD and East Asian Security by CHU Shulong The theater missile defense (TMD) that the US and Japan are jointly developing has become the issue with the most significant negative impact on security in the Asia-Pacific region. It has […]
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“East Asian Regional Security Futures: Theater Missile Defense Implications” The United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, June 24-5, 2000 TMD AND US-CHINA-JAPAN COOPERATIONby WANG QunThe TMD joint development by the United States and Japan now stands out as a most prominent sticking point in East Asian security in the wake of Japan’s September 1999 agreement with […]
Go to the articleBALLISTICS MISSILE DEFENSE AND THE MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME
“East Asian Regional Security Futures: Theater Missile Defense Implications” The United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, June 24-5, 2000 BALLISTICS MISSILE DEFENSE AND THE MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME*by LI BinUS-JAPAN COOPERATION ON THEATER MISSILE DEFENSE On August 16, United States and Japanese defense officials announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to conduct joint […]
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“East Asian Regional Security Futures: Theater Missile Defense Implications” The United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, June 24-5, 2000 JAPAN AND THE NAVY THEATER-WIDE MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMby David C. Wright and Eryn MacDonald (1)EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe United States is currently developing the first phase (Block I) of the Navy Theater-Wide (NTW) missile defense system. Japan has agreed […]
Go to the articleBuilding APEC’s Institutional Architecture: Crosscutting and Participatory Mechanisms for Sustainable Development
Some Preliminary Thoughts David G. Morgan, M.A., LL.M* At a March 1996 workshop in Vancouver, Canada — “The Environment and the Economy in APEC: Realizing Convergence”1 — a group of leaders of National Sustainable Development Councils (NCSDs) from Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies determined that the best way to have sustainable development considerations integrated […]
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Naomi Roht-Arriaza Hastings College of Law Abstract APEC’s eighteen members span East Asia, Australasia and the Western Hemisphere, and include states with different kinds and levels of industrial development as well as the world’s fastest growing economies and some of the most polluted places on earth. These economies have agreed to liberalize trade and investment […]
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Lessons of NAFTA for APEC Mark J. Spalding, J.D., M.P.I.A. The Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development ABSTRACT At the beginning of this decade, environmentalists truly began to discover trade issues. The debate between environmentalists and trade liberation proponents has usually been framed by two questions: “How does trade liberalization harm the environment?” and […]
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