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The ninth volume in NBR’s Strategic Asia series analyzes the impact of the current global economic crisis on key Asian states and explores the strategic implications for the United States. Through a combination of country, regional, and topical studies, leading experts examine the potential effects of the crisis on the economic performance and strategic goals of various Asian states and the resulting implications for the larger balance of power, both in the region and globally.
To read the volume’s key findings and policy implications, download the free Strategic Asia 2009-10 Executive Brief. Learn more about this year's volume and hear presentations by the authors at the Strategic Asia 2009-10 Book Launch.
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The tenth issue of Asia Policy offers two roundtables, one on the direction of the U.S.-Japan alliance and one on policymaking in China sixty years after the creation of the PRC; an article on the maritime boundary dispute between Bangladesh and Myanmar; Q&As on lessons from Asia for reform of the global health system and on the Chinapol Internet discussion group; a book review roundtable on The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online; and reviews of recent books addressing Asian democracy, regionalism, and more.
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In this June 2010 issue of the NBR Analysis David M. Lampton highlights four sources of mutual strategic mistrust that, if insufficiently attended to by Washington and Beijing, will metastasize in the U.S-China relationship and identifies ways in which the U.S. can manage and reduce tension in bilateral relations.
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Modern Russia is in the throes of a prolonged depopulation which, according to the report’s author Nicholas Eberstadt, qualifies as “nothing short of a humanitarian catastrophe.” This population crisis is marked by disastrous mortality levels and an eroding human resource base and will present serious challenges for Russia’s future domestic and international policy priorities. This report represents the culmination of a three-year research project on Russia’s political economy, as examined through the unique prism of that country’s demographic profile.
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