On May 8, 2009 experts, government officials, international actors, and humanitarian workers met to discuss with policymakers about the situation in Burma/Myanmar and the international response. Read working papers and presentations from this forum.
Why is the North Korean government attempting to reassert state control over society, which had been eroding from 1994-2002? Noted expert Andrei Lankov explains, and offers predictions regarding the impact this shift will likely have on North Korean society, in the latest issue of NBR’s journal Asia Policy.
"MDR-TB: Overcoming Global Resistance" was the theme of NBR's 2009 Pacific Health Summit. Top leaders from across the globe came together on June 16-18 to discuss how science, industry, and policy can tackle this emerging global health threat.
The inaugural meeting of the Forum for Personal Health was held June 18 at the conclusion of the Pacific Health Summit. The Forum, which brings together top leaders from U.S. and international health systems to address key health challenges, was launched in February by the Center for Health and Aging.
NBR has been chosen by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to lead two research projects over a three-year period as part of the Foundation’s new Asia Security Initiative (ASI).
Shahram Chubinon Iran’s political future
James B. Steinberg on economic and strategic trends in Asia
Dennis Blair on military power projection in Asia
Abdulkader H. Sinno and Rasul Bakhsh Rais on Afghanistan-Pakistan relations
Marcus Nolandon North Korea sanctions
Roy Kamphausen,David Lai,& Andrew Scobell on the PLA
Elizabeth Economy on Asia’s water security crisis
Akihiko Tanaka on the U.S.-Australia-Japan strategic dialogue
Shamshad Akhtar on Islamic finance
Edward Gresser & Daniel Twiningon the 111th Congress and Asia
Trevor Houseron China’s oil investment abroad
Read the latest issue of NBR’s journal, Asia Policy, which features a roundtable on defining a "healthy" military balance in the Taiwan Strait; articles on North Korean domestic politics, India’s foreign policy establishment, and the Chinese military’s new information office; and book review discussions of Asia, Sri Lanka, and China.
Representatives from corporations, government, and academia met in May to explore the likely future evolution of Asia's involvement in Middle East oil and gas development at the 2009 Energy Security Conference "The New Energy Silk Road: The Growing Asia-Middle East Energy Nexus."
The recent Swine Flu outbreak, which originated in Mexico and spread to other parts of the globe, serves as a sobering reminder of the ever-present threat of pandemics and infectious diseases. Learn more about NBR projects and publications related to this topic.
Strategic Asia 2009-10 (forthcoming Sept. 2009) will seek to explore how the global economic meltdown is affecting, and is affected by, the national economic performance of various Asian states, particularly as mediated through their financial sectors.
NBR and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars are partnering to launch a major national research and conference program that will select a premier group of National Asia Research Associates and Fellows. An annual prize named after renowned Asia scholar Robert Scalapino will be awarded to one scholar.
As our Senior Vice President for Institutional Development, Brigitte M. Gort-Allen was instrumental to NBR’s growth and success. She remained an integral part of the institution until her death of lung cancer on April 7, 2009. Brigitte built relationships with U.S. corporations and foundations and coordinated fundraising activities for our endowments, research programs, and services. Without her dedication, imagination, and persistence, some of NBR’s most enduring legacies would never have been achieved.
