Special Reports

The Nuclear Dimension of the U.S.-Japan Alliance Morton H. Halperin Note: This paper was completed prior to Morton H. Halperin joining the U.S. Department of State as Director of the Policy Planning Staff. ABSTRACT The US-Japan military alliance is overlooked as a crucial element for either promoting or discouraging nuclear proliferation. Future developments in the […]

***SPECIAL REPORT**** DECEMBER 21, 2000 On June 24-5, the Nautilus Institute and The United Nations University jointly convened the collaborative workshop, “East Asian Regional Security Futures: Theater Missile Defense Implications.” The purpose of the meeting was to increase communication and knowledge of current theater missile defense (TMD) proposals among specialists from China, Japan and the […]

  Nuclear Abolition Scenarios Bruce D. Larkin Professor of Politics University of California at Santa Cruz Introduction This paper is a comparison of five proposals for denuclearization. The object is to illuminate the characteristics of any nuclear abolition design: prerequisites, initiators, participants, negotiation (original and ongoing, forum and decision processes), timing (stagings and simultaneities), removals, […]

Civil 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 […]

Challenges in Expanding External Economic Relations with North Korea North Korean System at the Dawn of the 21st Century University of California at Berkeley Bradley Babson Eun Sook Kim World Bank April 7, 2000     North Korea is starting off the 21st Century with a major shift in its relations with the international community. […]

February 23, 2000 The following article was distributed by the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). Theodore Friend, a Senior Fellow at FPRI, is currently writing a book on the history of Indonesia, under contract with Harvard University Press. This is the text of his testimony to the House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Asia […]

February 23, 2000 The following article by Wade Huntley, Nautilus Program Director for Global Security, and Peter Hayes, Executive Director, is included in the special issue on “East Timor, Indonesia and the World System,” of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (http://csf.colorado.edu/bcas/index.html) Volume 31, Nos. 1 and 2. For earlier NAPSNet Special Reports on East […]

Peter Hayes Peter Hayes is Co-Director of the Nautilus Institute. He has written many studies of security issues pertaining to the Korean Peninsula, especially on missile and nuclear-related matters. Recent media coverage of North and South Korean missile programs (see the Nov. 16, 1999 NAPSNet Daily Report) makes no reference to the past history of […]

Tuesday, September 28, 1999, from Berkeley, California, USA The United States Information Agency (USIA) distributed the following statement of the Multinational Humanitarian Mission to East Timor on September 27. A guide to all NAPSNet East Timor Special Reports is available online at: http://www.nautilus.org/napsnet/sr/East_Timor/index.html ———————————— Statement from the Multinational Humanitarian Mission A humanitarian mission representing the […]

September 21, 1999 This is the latest in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This article is by Sylvia Tiwon, Professor of Indonesia at the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. It is also available on the Berkeley Indonesia Forum website at: http://www.bi-forum.org/opedtiwon.htm A guide […]