NBR is dedicated to informing and strengthening policy across the full spectrum of critical issues facing Asia, from security and politics to energy and global health.

Download a brochure highlighting recent research and activities: 2011 Highlights.

Using its "network-of experts" business model, NBR brings together the best scholars from around the world for an ongoing examination of trends and developments in the region. Through a variety of publication platforms, including NBR's flagship annual volume Strategic Asia, the peer reviewed journal Asia Policy, and the NBR Analysis series, as well as through conferences and private briefings, NBR makes available the best possible research to the global policymaking community.

The institution organizes its research around three broad topics: politics and security, trade, economics, and energy, and health.

Innovative, forward-looking policy research on a range of issues, including Asian security, with a particular focus on:

• China security issues and nuclear proliferation,
• Muslim Asia,
• strategic studies, with the Strategic Asia Program,
• futures studies, and
• political cultures.

Policy research focused on two areas:

• energy and the environment and
• trade, investment, and economic engagement.

Flagship programs include the annual Energy Security Conference; the China's Strategies on Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Standards, and Innovation initiative; and the annual Pacific Energy Summit, which strives to foster economic and energy security in the Asia-Pacific by developing practical, market-based solutions to the dual challenges of rising energy demand and global climate change.

The Center for Health and Aging (CHA) organizes the flagship Pacific Health Summit, an annual Davos-level meeting that brings together global leaders from science, industry, and policy. The goal of the Summit is to transform global healthcare through the prevention, early detection, and early treatment of disease through the use of emerging science and technology.

NATIONAL ASIA RESEARCH PROGRAM

NBR and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars manage the National Asia Research Program (NARP), a nationa rsearch and conference program designed to reinvigorate and promote the policy-relevant study of Asia. NARP activities include the bienneial selection of leading scholars as National Asia Research Associates and Fellows, the award of the Robert Scalapino Prize, and the Asia Policy Assembly, a major international conference featuring presentations by scholars and policymakers.