Special Reports

The annual report “on the current and future military strategy of the People’s Republic of China July 17, 2002 The annual report “on the current and future military strategy of the People’s Republic of China was submitted by the Department of Defense on July 12, 2002 to the US Congress. It addresses the current and […]

Turning the tide July 8, 2002 Japan is a major donor of Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) to Pacific island nations, doubling its aid to the region between 1987 and 1995. By 1999, Japan was the largest bilateral aid donor to Tonga, Vanuatu, Samoa and the Solomon Islands, and the second largest donor to Fiji, Papua […]

  America’s Korea Watchers Assess Developments on the Korean Peninsula Peter M. Beck April 11, 2002 A recent survey of Korea watchers in the United States finds broad support for engaging North Korea and an almost equally strong disapproval of the Bush Administration’s approach to North Korea. Dong-a Ilbo, one of Korea’s largest daily newspapers […]

Nautilus Institute Report on WTO Meetings in Seattle U.S. ARROGANCE AND INCOMPETENCE — A LETHAL MIX Reflections on Seattle by Lyuba Zarsky The image of police battling protesters in Seattle may have faded from TV screens but hopefully not from the minds of US trade officials. There are important lessons to be drawn about how […]

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 […]