Emerging Leaders in East Asia
In September 2008, NBR released the project report "Emerging Leaders in East Asia; The Next Generation of Political Leadership in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan." Emerging Leaders in East Asia is a comprehensive initiative to provide U.S. government and corporate leaders with a better understanding of East Asia’s future leadership. This project examines the qualities and characteristics that define these emerging leaders, distinguishes them from their predecessors, and explores the possible implications of their increasing influence for U.S. foreign, economic, and security policy interests in the future. Order the report and learn more about the project.

Technical Standards and Innovation in China On October 29, 2007, The National Bureau of Asian Research and Tsinghua University co-organized a conference on "Technical Standards and Innovation in China: Public Policy and the Role of Stakeholders" in Beijing, China. This conference addressed the relationship between stakeholders, standards development, and innovation in China and builds on NBR's groundbreaking research on intellectual property and standards development in China. NBR will publish a conference report in spring 2008 written by Professors Scott Kennedy, Richard P. Suttmeier, and Su Jun. Click here to learn more about the project and to read the past project publications.

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Annual Conference
Described by DefenseNews.Com as "the premier academic and government conference on China’s army," this annual invitation-only conference assembles the world’s leading scholars to examine critical trends in the study of China’s military. On September 28–30 NBR and the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College co-hosted the 18th annual conference entitled "The 'People' in the PLA: Recruitment, Training and Education in China's 80-year old Military." See this year’s conference colloquium brief and read a transcript from the September 24 book launch event marking the release of Right-Sizing the Peoples Liberation Army: Exploring the Contours of China's Military, the new publication resulting from the 2006 conference.

Learn more about NBR’s research on the PLA.

The U.S.-ROK Alliance—Implications of an "Alternative Future"

What would a world in which the U.S.-ROK alliance no longer existed be like? NBR partnered with the Korea Institute for Future Strategies (KiFS) to convene a conference on September 10-11, 2007, in Seoul, South Korea, exploring potential implications of this scenario. Leading U.S. and Korean figures from across the political spectrum in academia, business, and civil society engaged in a rigorous "alternative futures” exercise that illuminated the potential costs and benefits for both parties of such a dramatic shift. More information about the project as well as access to the conference report and conference papers are available here. In addition, the January 2008 issue of Asia Policy features select papers from the conference in the roundtable "What if? A World without the U.S.-ROK Alliance: Thinking about 'Alternative Futures.'"

JoonAng Iibo article about the conference. (In Korean)

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This latest issue of Asia Policy includes contributions by David M. Lampton, Cheng Li, Pieter Bottelier, and Fenggang Yang to a roundtable exploring possible futures for China in the year 2020; a roundtable of scholars and policy analysts responding to the question of sizing the PLA; and a book review roundtable on Kenneth B. Pyle’s Japan Rising and Richard J. Samuels’ Securing Japan.

China in the Year 2020
Mercy Kuo & Andrew D. Marble, David M. Lampton, Cheng Li, Pieter Bottelier, Fenggang Yang

Sizing the Chinese Military
Andrew Scobell & Roy Kamphausen, Ellis Joffe, Michael R. Chambers, David M. Finkelstein, Cortez A. Cooper III, Dennis J. Blasko, Bernard D. Cole, Michael McDevitt, Phillip C. Saunders & Erik Quam, Larry Wortzel

China’s Fifteen-Year Plan for Science and Technology: An Assessment
Sylvia Schwaag Serger & Magnus Breidne

Managing the U.S.-China Foreign Economic Dialogue: Building Greater Coordination and New Habits of Consultation
Jean A. Garrison

Kenneth B. Pyle’s Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose / Richard J. Samuels’ Securing Japan: Tokyo’s Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
T.J. Pempel, Mike M. Mochizuki, Ming Wan, Christopher W. Hughes, Richard J. Samuels, Kenneth B. Pyle

Japan Rising
In NBR founder Kenneth Pyle's newest book, Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose (PublicAffairs Books, 2007), he argues that Japan has responded and adapted over the last 150 years to international forces, repeatedly altering both its foreign and domestic policy in order to maintain security and power. David Pilling of the Financial Times examines Japan Rising while discussing the country's changing course in his article, "Japan Stirs from Its Postwar Detachment."

Other recent articles discussing Japan Rising include:

"Japan Is Back: Why Tokyo's New Assertiveness Is Good for Washington," by Michael Green (Foreign Affairs, March/April 2007)

"Japan Again," by Dan Blumenthal (American Enterprise Institute, May 2007)

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This latest issue of Asia Policy includes two works that stemmed from the Pyle Center's inaugural conference in November 2006, "Pursuing Security in a Dynamic Northeast Asia." The first is Professor Kenneth B. Pyle's reflection on the use of history and culture in the making of foreign policy, and second is a special roundtable with contributions by Aaron L. Friedberg and other conference speakers.

Reading the New Era in Asia: The Use of History and Culture in the Making of Foreign Policy
Kenneth B. Pyle

Special Roundtable: Pursuing Security in a Dynamic Northeast Asia
Aaron L. Friedberg, Michael J. Green, Robert A. Scalapino, Kenneth B. Pyle, Francis Fukuyama, Dwight H. Perkins, Nicholas Eberstadt, Richard J. Samuels, Kenneth Lieberthal, and Chae-Jin Lee

North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: Implications for the Nuclear Ambitions of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
Christopher W. Hughes

North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program to 2015: Three Scenarios
Jonathan D. Pollack

The Democratic-Led 110th Congress: Implications for Asia
Robert Sutter

China and WTO Liberalization of the Securities Industry: Le choc des mondes or L’empire immobile?
Nicholas Calcina Howson

Emerging Trends, Dormant Interest: Developments in Northeast Asian Politics
Gathering their thoughts for an address to a November 17–18, 2006, NBR conference to mark the establishment of the new Pyle Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Ambassadors Armacost and Satoh write from the perspective of decades of experience. As the U.S.-Japan alliance enters a new phase, they discuss the problems that the two allies must face singly and together.

The Mismatch between Northeast Asian Change and American Distractions
Michael Armacost

Changes in Northeast Asian Geopolitics
Yukio Satoh

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