DETERRENCE: Japan’s Radical Energy Technocrats: Structural Reform Through Smart Communities DPRK: Elite volatility and change in North Korean politics: 1997 – 2010 GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: China has broken Hong Kong agreement, say British MPs CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Better Growth Better Climate: The New Climate Economy Report CLIMATE CHANGE AND SECURITY: The security implications of geoengineering: blame, imposed agreement and […]
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Japan’s Radical Energy Technocrats: Structural Reform Through Smart Communities, the Feed-in Tariff and Japanese-Style “Stadtwerke”
Japan’s Radical Energy Technocrats: Structural Reform Through Smart Communities, the Feed-in Tariff and Japane…
Nautilus Peace and Security – 27 November
DETERRENCE: Air Force missile sites to get Wi-Fi DPRK: N. Korean envoy sent to Russia to ease diplomatic isolation GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Watchdog estimates N.K. development costs at $500b CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Creating New Norms on Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Displacement: International Developments 2010 – 2013 AUSTRAL PEACE AND SECURITY: Abbott clueless on how to handle US and China […]
Russia-South Korea-North Korea Trilateral Cooperation in 2013-2014
Younkyoo Kim Center for Energy Governance & Security This paper was originally published in Hanyang University’s Energy, Governance and Security (EGS) Center, available in Global Energy Monitor Vol. 2, No.7 as http://www.egskorea.org/common/download.asp?downfile=GEM_2014-9.pdf&path=board. Whatever Pyongyang’s reasons are for shelving Moscow’s initiatives, the failure to date of these proposals to gain traction clearly has serious implications for Russia’s Korea and overall […]
Australia in America’s Iraq War 3.0
Richard Tanter Nautilus Institute 14 November 2014 Little more than a month after the start of bombing operations, Australia’s new war in Iraq is following the path of its predecessor, a path marked by subordination to American interests, a casual disregard for Iraqi sovereignty and law, severe restriction of information provided to the Australian public, […]
Nautilus Peace and Security – 20 November
DETERRENCE: It’s Time to Talk About Nukes Again DPRK: N.K. Special Envoy meets with Putin GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: China uses APEC Summit as Platform to boost Leadership Role in Region ENERGY SECURITY: Cleaner, more efficient Cookstoves should be on front burner of Women’s needs in Developing Countries CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Climate Change in the Places We Live: What the […]
Nautilus Peace and Security – 13 November
DETERRENCE: Interview with Masakatsu Ota DPRK: North Korea frees two Americans as Obama heads to Beijing GOVER…
Win-Win: China’s ability to play an active and constructive role in the Northeast Asia Energy and Environmental Sector
Roger Cavazos, David Von Hippel, and Peter Hayes Nautilus Institute 4 November 2014 This paper was originally published with support from the Hanyang University’s Energy, Governance and Security (EGS) Center, available in Global Energy Monitor Vol. 1, No.10. Roger Cavazos is a Nautilus Institute Associate and retired US military officer with assignments in the intelligence and policy communities. David […]
Nautilus Peace and Security – 6 November
DETERRENCE: A Plutonium-Rich Asia DPRK: STTB: Russian Invasion Edition GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Korea, New Issues Threaten Regional Security: Seoul FM ENERGY SECURITY: The Problem with Energy Efficiency CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Retreat from Retreat – The Backward Evolution of Sea-Level Rise Policy in Australia, and the Implications for Local Government CLIMATE CHANGE AND SECURITY: A Disagreement over Climate-Conflict Link Heats Up DETERRENCE: A […]
Nuclear Warfighting to Defeat a DPRK Attack: Unnecessary, Disproportionate, Incredible, and Self-Defeating
Peter Hayes Nautilus Institute Forthcoming NAPSNet Special Report November 2014 In 1978, Bryan Jack and a team of analysts at Pan Heuristics asked how nuclear weapons might be used to blunt a North Korean all-out attack on the South?[i] Their analysis (which posited South Korean nuclear weapons, but the results are identical if American nuclear […]