Daily Report Archives
Established in December 1993, the Nautilus Institute’s *N*ortheast *A*sia *P*eace and *S*ecurity *N*etwork (NAPSNet) Daily Report served thousands of readers in more than forty countries, including policy makers, diplomats, aid organizations, scholars, donors, activists, students, and journalists.
The NAPSNet Daily Report aimed to serve a community of practitioners engaged in solving the complex security and sustainability issues in the region, especially those posed by the DPRK’s nuclear weapons program and the threat of nuclear war in the region. It was distributed by email rom 1993-1997, and went on-line in December 1997, which is when the archive on this site begins. The format at that time can be seen here.
However, for multiple reasons—the rise of instantaneous news services, the evolution of the North Korea and nuclear issues, the increasing demand for specialized and synthetic analysis of these and related issues, and the decline in donor support for NAPSNet—the Institute stopped producing the Daily Report news summary service as of December 17, 2010.
In this policy forum essay, Peter Hayes argues that a determined non-state nuclear terrorist can choose to threaten any one of hundreds of cities, with a nuclear weapon, with a radiological weapon, or by attacking nuclear facilities. The key risk reduction measures are to reduce numbers and increase security of nuclear weapons; favor urban form that increases urban resilience; and ensure spent fuel and reactors are extremely difficult to attack.
Peter Hayes is Professor of International Relations, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia and Director, Nautilus Institute.
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James Goodby and Markku Heiskanen assess the significance of the recently reached agreement to reopen the Kaesong Industrial Complex. They write: “it shows a readiness to negotiate on both sides and could be seen as a first success for “trustpolitik,” President Park’s description of her hopes for North-South relations. Perhaps it signals the beginning of a new day in Korea.”
James Goodby is a former US ambassador to Finland now affiliated with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and with the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.
Markku Heiskanen is a retired Finnish diplomat, now program director of The Asia Institute in Seoul.
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Nikhil Desai questions the dubious connection between violence and crime and regional and global rises in temperatures.
Nikhil Desai, a Nautilus Associate, is an energy and environmental economist now dividing his time between Washington, DC and Ahmedabad, India.
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DETERRENCE: A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 DPRK: The Korean War and Sino-North Korean Friendship ENERGY SECURITY: Timing a rise in sea level GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Ban lifted, Japan’s politicians race online CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Costs and Coasts: An Empirical Assessment of Physical and Institutional Climate Adaptation Pathways CLIMATE CHANGE AND SECURITY: Icelandic academics warn independent Scotland would […]
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[IN CHINESE] Zhang Tuosheng discusses China’s national interests, especially China’s core interests as articul…
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Roger Cavazos: Any visit Kim Jong-un will make to China will have a broader bi-lateral component and a lesser …
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AUSTRAL PEACE AND SECURITY: Peace hopes rise for West Papua DETERRENCE: Pentagon Conducts Overhaul of War Plans DPRK: Asian leaders discuss unease over North Korea ENERGY SECURITY: Europe Must Tackle Air Pollution, Warn UN Scientists GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Video game pits China against Japan over island dispute CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Climate change adaptation and the rental sector AUSTRAL PEACE AND SECURITY: Peace […]
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Richard Tanter writes that policy competition between the Labor government and conservative opposition to “stop the boats” bringing asylum seekers to Australia by ship is producing strategically dangerous outcomes. Both government and opposition are now committed to isolating all asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat in Papua-New Guinea, in cluding successful applicants for asylum. It is hard, Tanter concludes, “to think of anything else an Australian government could do in a single policy move more likely to undermine the already limited chances of sustainable peace in Papua-New Guinea.”
Richard Tanter is a Nautilus Institute Associate and Professor in the School of Political and Social Studies at the University of Melbourne.
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Saleem Janjua writes that “increasing the capability to adapt at the local government level in Pakistan will definitely lessen susceptibility to the effects of climate change at provincial and federal levels. Hence, in Pakistan, we must begin planning our adaptive reactions now at grass-root level to help lessen some of the environmental, economic and social impacts of climate change.”
Saleem Janjua is the Climate Change Adpation contributor to the NAPSNet Weekly Report, and the Editor of AdaptNet.
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This is the second in a three part series of articles from Professor Zhang Tuosheng of the China Foundation fo…
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