Weekly Report

The Nautilus Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet) is a non-governmental information network launched by the Nautilus Institute in November 1993. NAPSNet covers the key areas of research and policy work of the Nautilus Institute nodes in San Francisco, Melbourne and Seoul, including Austral security, nuclear deterrence, energy security, climate change adaptation, the DPRK, governance and civil society and the links between these themes and the three regions in which our nodes are found—North America, Northeast Asia, and the Austral-Asia region.

The Weekly Report succinctly presents six items each week that we believe every reader should know about these fields.

Weekly Report

NAPSNet 23 June 2011

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NAPSNet 16 June 2011

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NAPSNet 9 June 2011

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NAPSNet 2 June 2011

  1. CLIMATE CHANGE: Global climate change and children’s health: threats and strategies for prevention
  2. ENERGY SECURITY: China’s low-carbon leadership headlines fail to capture the reality
  3. DPRK: DPRK will not deal with Lee Myung Bak: Spokesman for NDC of DPRK
  4. GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: China censors web to curb Inner Mongolia Protests
  5. DETERRENCE: Committee on ‘Nuclear Weapons, Non Proliferation & Contemporary International Law’
  6. AUSTRAL SECURITY: U.S. military buildup in Asia-Pacific region just beginning
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NAPSNet 26 May 2011

  1. DPRK: N. Korea pushes generational change in parliament
  2. GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: China-North Korea economic cooperation expected to pick up steam
  3. ENERGY SECURITY: Future regional nuclear fuel cycle cooperation in East Asia
  4. DETERRENCE: The nuclear weapons complex as deterrent: challenges and issues
  5. AUSTRAL SECURITY: Malaysia’s carelessness over WMD
  6. CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Vulnerability to heatwaves and drought
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NAPSNet 19 May 2011

  1. Deterrence: The U.S. policy of extended deterrence in East Asia
  2. DPRK: DPRK denounces Lee Myung Bak’s provocative remarks against DPRK
  3. AUSTRAL SECURITY: Myanmar, North Korea in missile nexus
  4. GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Action June 11: no nuclear power
  5. ENERGY SECURITY: Stanford Ovshinsky: pursuing solar electricity at a cost equal to or lower than that of coal electricity
  6. CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Spending adaptation money wisely
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NAPSNet 12 May 2011

  1. DPRK: S. Korea simulates N. Korea attack on nuclear site
  2. GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: Lee conditionally invites N.K. leader to join Nuclear Summit
  3. DETERRENCE: A code of conduct for transfer of nuclear power plant technology to consumer countries
  4. ENERGY SECURITY: Shut down being considered for Fukushima No. 2
  5. CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Cities and climate change: policy directions
  6. AUSTRAL SECURITY: Timor rejected Chinese spy offer
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NAPSNet 5 May 2011

  1. AUSTRAL SECURITY: US asked to ratify nuclear-free Pacific
  2. DETERRENCE:  Regional responses to extra-territoriality and non-state nuclear actors: a perspective from Southeast Asia
  3. DPRK: KCNA commentary slashes at US invariable ambition for preemptive nuclear attack
  4. GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: North Korea ‘behind South Korean bank cyber hack’
  5. ENERGY SECURITY: The path from Fukushima: short and medium-term impacts of the reactor damage caused by the Japan earthquake
  6. CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: The use of scenarios in adaptation planning – managing risks in simple to complex settings
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NAPSNet 28 April 2011

  1. DETERRENCE:  Tracking nuclear capable individuals
  2. AUSTRAL SECURITY: U.S.-Australia civilian nuclear cooperation: issues for congress
  3. ENERGY SECURITY: The world nuclear industry status report 2010–2011
  4. GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY: President Son of Soft Bank donates 1 billion yen to establish the foundation for denuclearization
  5. DPRK: Inter-Korean coal mine projects suspended during Lee administration
  6. CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: Risk and resilience in three Southeast Asian cross-boarder areas
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Nautilus Weekly January 21 – 25, 2008

AUSTRALIA EXPANDING OPERATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN AS IT WINDS DOWN OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, TANTER SAYS In an interview with ABC radio Australia, Richard Tanter, Director of the Nautilus Institute’s Melbourne Office, discussed the visit of Stephen Smith, Australia’s foreign minister to the US and Japan, noting, “I think in fact they are expanding the commitment in […]

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