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The Pacific Forum is a non-profit, private, foreign policy research institute. The Forum's programs encompass current and emerging political, security, economic/business and ocean policy issues in the Asia-Pacific region. The Issues and Insights is published by the Honolulu-based Pacific Forum and consists of in-depth analyses covering a wide range of topics and serving as a vehicle for providing summaries of Pacific Forum workshops and conferences, along with associated papers. This series offers substantive analyses of track-two diplomatic efforts, confidence building initiatives on security issues in Asia-Pacific region.

Publishers:	Pacific Forum
Publications:	Promoting the Well-Being of North Korea’s Residents and Refugees through US-ROK Cooperation Evolving DPRK Nuclear Doctrine The Missing Link in Understanding South Korea’s Foreign Policy: Panmunjom Declaration and Beyond Is China Challenging the Global State of Democracy? A Guide to Japan’s Space Policy Formulation: Structures, Roles and Strategies of Ministries and Agencies for Space ASEAN Centrality and the Evolving US Indo-Pacific Strategy Sustaining Deterrence in a Time of Change and Uncertainty: A Conference Report of the US - ROK - Japan Trilateral Strategic Dialogue Japan´s Defense Exports: ´Three Years of Sitting on a Stone´ Nuclear Governance in the Asia Pacific: Challenges, Old and New The Third Meeting of the CSCAP Study Group on Nonproliferation and Disarmament in the Asia-Pacific Gradual Approach Needed for the Human Rights Issues in Myanmar: The Intertwined Causes of the ´Rohingya´ Crisis ARF to the Forefront: Promoting Cybersecurity CBMs in the Asia-Pacific Obstacles and Aid: Strengthening Myanmar´s Nonproliferation Regime China´s Role in Central Asia Fresh Eyes on Old Relations: Young Leaders Analysis of the US-ROK-Japan Trilateral Strategic Dialogue A Conference Report from the US-ROK-Japan Trilateral Strategic Dialogue Strategic Trade Controls (STC) in the Asia Pacific: Emerging Challenges Reaching an Inflection Point? The Tenth China-US Dialogue on Strategic Nuclear Dynamics New Era for Cooperation: Next Generation Views of the US-Japan Alliance Responding to China´s Strategic Use of Combined Effects The US-Japan Alliance as a Regional Problem Solving Mechanism China´s “New Silk Road” and US-Japan Alliance Geostrategy: Challenges and Opportunities Myanmar-DPRK Relations: Disarmament and Nuclear Nonproliferation Dimension The Japanese-European Security Relationship during the Second Abe Administration The Juche Factor: North Korea’s Political Ideology and Human Rights Reform US Missile Defense in the Age of Everything: From BMDS to IAMD 16,000 Problems: Recommendations for the New Myanmar Next Steps for Nuclear Security Governance in the Asia Pacific Development Cooperation with North Korea: Expanding the Debate Beyond the Political Horizon Struggling with the Gray Zone: Trilateral Cooperation to Strengthen Deterrence in Northeast Asia Implementing Strategic Trade Controls in Continental Southeast Asia The Politicization of the Liancourt Rocks Dispute and its Effect on the Japan-South Korea Relationship Maritime Fulcrum: A New US Opportunity to Engage Indonesia US-China Strategic Nuclear Relations: Time to Move to Track-1 Dialogue Making an Island in the South China Sea: Sansha and Chinese Foreign Policy A Legacy of Peace: The US-Japan Partnership after 70 Years The US-Japan Alliance in Transformation Institutionalizing Nonproliferation Cooperation with Myanmar Seeking and Forging Common Ground: A Conference Report of the ROK-US Security Seminar Trilateral Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Expectations and Limitations Enhancing Nuclear Governance in the Asia Pacific Closing the Nonproliferation Gap: Toward the Universalization of Strategic Trade Controls in the Asia-Pacific Building Trust on the Korean Peninsula Japan-Korea: Working Together in East Asia and Beyond Respond and Restrain: Deterrence and Reassurance in Northeast Asia Changes in Japan Push the Alliance Forward Strengthening US-China Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific Revisiting China’s ‘String of Pearls’ Strategy: Places ‘with Chinese Characteristics’ and their Security Implications Myanmar and the Nonproliferation Regime Rare Earth Elements: A Critical Strategic Resource in Asia 8th China-US Dialogue on Strategic Nuclear Dynamics Substantial Progress, but Still Further to Go: Next Generation Ideas for the US-Japan Alliance China and the Japan-US Alliance Thinking the Unthinkable on the Korean Peninsula Forging Cooperation over Competition: Opportunities for Practical Security Collaboration in the Asia-Pacific Paving the Way for a “New Type of Major Country Relations” Institutionalizing Nuclear Governance in the Asia Pacific Kim Jong-Un-Prepared: Allied Contingency Plans for Korean Peninsula Unification Building Toward Trilateral Cooperation on Extended Deterrence in Northeast Asia Workshop on Strategic Trade Controls ASEAN’s Nuclear Landscape – Part 1 Rowing Together: A Chinese Perspective Regional Security Trends: Next Generation Perspectives on Cooperation Time for Fresh Air: Young Leaders’ Responses to a World in Transition Moving Forward Together: The Future of the US-Japan Alliance New Governments, Renewed Purpose: The 19th US Security Seminar Innovate or Enervate Hanging Together: Improving Deterrence Through ROK-Japan Cooperation Towards the Next ´Strengthening´ Agenda: The US-Japan Alliance in Search of a Vision Testing Resolve: The US-ROK Alliance at a Crossroads Progress Continues, but Disagreements Remain Doing More and Expecting Less: The Future of US Alliances in the Asia Pacific Building Toward a Stable and Cooperative Long-Term US-China Strategic Relationship War and Peace in the East Sea Mistrust in the US-Japan-ROK Triangle The Biosecurity Lexicon Project The US-China Relationship: Avoiding a New Cold War Sino-US Relations, Regional Security, and Global Governance America in Response to China’s Rise: Standing Still is Not an Option ASEAN’s WMD Scorecard Pyongyang in the Cockpit: Regional Responses to North Korean Provocations A Shift in Focus: The 18th Japan-US Security Seminar The US-Japan Alliance Leading from the Middle: Advocacy Opportunities for Asia Pacific Middle Powers Trilateral Strategic Cooperative Mechanism Between Japan, the United States, and Vietnam: A Proposal ´The Lynchpin´ Grapples with Frustration and Distrust On the Rebound: The Alliance Faces New Tests Progress Despite Disagreements Balancing Cross-Strait Dynamics Maritime Interests: China-US Cooperation and Conflicts Regional Security and Global Governance The Alliance Rebounds, But Expectations Remain a Problem: The Fourth US-Japan Strategic Dialogue US-Japan Alliance on the Recovery Path Responsibility to Protect: Delivering on the Promise A Strong Alliance Under Stress: The Third US-ROK Strategic Dialogue Alliances for Tomorrow: Next Generation Views of US Alliances in Southeast Asia Time for a Caucus: “The Future of US Alliances in Asia” China in the Pacific: The New Banker in Town China in the Pacific: The New Banker in Town A Year of Surprises: The 17th Japan-US Security Seminar The Future of Power Evolution of a Multilateral Security Mechanism in Northeast Asia Strategic Objectives in the New Asian Century Changing Security Paradigms and Korea’s New Asia Policy: Visions for 2030 Japan-China-ROK-US Dialogue

Publishers:

Pacific Forum

Publications:

Promoting the Well-Being of North Korea’s Residents and Refugees through US-ROK Cooperation
Evolving DPRK Nuclear Doctrine
The Missing Link in Understanding South Korea’s Foreign Policy: Panmunjom Declaration and Beyond
Is China Challenging the Global State of Democracy?
A Guide to Japan’s Space Policy Formulation: Structures, Roles and Strategies of Ministries and Agencies for Space
ASEAN Centrality and the Evolving US Indo-Pacific Strategy
Sustaining Deterrence in a Time of Change and Uncertainty: A Conference Report of the US - ROK - Japan Trilateral Strategic Dialogue
Japan´s Defense Exports: ´Three Years of Sitting on a Stone´
Nuclear Governance in the Asia Pacific: Challenges, Old and New
The Third Meeting of the CSCAP Study Group on Nonproliferation and Disarmament in the Asia-Pacific
Gradual Approach Needed for the Human Rights Issues in Myanmar: The Intertwined Causes of the ´Rohingya´ Crisis
ARF to the Forefront: Promoting Cybersecurity CBMs in the Asia-Pacific
Obstacles and Aid: Strengthening Myanmar´s Nonproliferation Regime
China´s Role in Central Asia
Fresh Eyes on Old Relations: Young Leaders Analysis of the US-ROK-Japan Trilateral Strategic Dialogue
A Conference Report from the US-ROK-Japan Trilateral Strategic Dialogue
Strategic Trade Controls (STC) in the Asia Pacific: Emerging Challenges
Reaching an Inflection Point? The Tenth China-US Dialogue on Strategic Nuclear Dynamics
New Era for Cooperation: Next Generation Views of the US-Japan Alliance
Responding to China´s Strategic Use of Combined Effects
The US-Japan Alliance as a Regional Problem Solving Mechanism
China´s “New Silk Road” and US-Japan Alliance Geostrategy: Challenges and Opportunities
Myanmar-DPRK Relations: Disarmament and Nuclear Nonproliferation Dimension
The Japanese-European Security Relationship during the Second Abe Administration
The Juche Factor: North Korea’s Political Ideology and Human Rights Reform
US Missile Defense in the Age of Everything: From BMDS to IAMD
16,000 Problems: Recommendations for the New Myanmar
Next Steps for Nuclear Security Governance in the Asia Pacific
Development Cooperation with North Korea: Expanding the Debate Beyond the Political Horizon
Struggling with the Gray Zone: Trilateral Cooperation to Strengthen Deterrence in Northeast Asia
Implementing Strategic Trade Controls in Continental Southeast Asia
The Politicization of the Liancourt Rocks Dispute and its Effect on the Japan-South Korea Relationship
Maritime Fulcrum: A New US Opportunity to Engage Indonesia
US-China Strategic Nuclear Relations: Time to Move to Track-1 Dialogue
Making an Island in the South China Sea: Sansha and Chinese Foreign Policy
A Legacy of Peace: The US-Japan Partnership after 70 Years
The US-Japan Alliance in Transformation
Institutionalizing Nonproliferation Cooperation with Myanmar
Seeking and Forging Common Ground: A Conference Report of the ROK-US Security Seminar
Trilateral Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Expectations and Limitations
Enhancing Nuclear Governance in the Asia Pacific
Closing the Nonproliferation Gap: Toward the Universalization of Strategic Trade Controls in the Asia-Pacific
Building Trust on the Korean Peninsula
Japan-Korea: Working Together in East Asia and Beyond
Respond and Restrain: Deterrence and Reassurance in Northeast Asia
Changes in Japan Push the Alliance Forward
Strengthening US-China Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific
Revisiting China’s ‘String of Pearls’ Strategy: Places ‘with Chinese Characteristics’ and their Security Implications
Myanmar and the Nonproliferation Regime
Rare Earth Elements: A Critical Strategic Resource in Asia
8th China-US Dialogue on Strategic Nuclear Dynamics
Substantial Progress, but Still Further to Go: Next Generation Ideas for the US-Japan Alliance
China and the Japan-US Alliance
Thinking the Unthinkable on the Korean Peninsula
Forging Cooperation over Competition: Opportunities for Practical Security Collaboration in the Asia-Pacific
Paving the Way for a “New Type of Major Country Relations”
Institutionalizing Nuclear Governance in the Asia Pacific
Kim Jong-Un-Prepared: Allied Contingency Plans for Korean Peninsula Unification
Building Toward Trilateral Cooperation on Extended Deterrence in Northeast Asia
Workshop on Strategic Trade Controls
ASEAN’s Nuclear Landscape – Part 1
Rowing Together: A Chinese Perspective
Regional Security Trends: Next Generation Perspectives on Cooperation
Time for Fresh Air: Young Leaders’ Responses to a World in Transition
Moving Forward Together: The Future of the US-Japan Alliance
New Governments, Renewed Purpose: The 19th US Security Seminar
Innovate or Enervate
Hanging Together: Improving Deterrence Through ROK-Japan Cooperation
Towards the Next ´Strengthening´ Agenda: The US-Japan Alliance in Search of a Vision
Testing Resolve: The US-ROK Alliance at a Crossroads
Progress Continues, but Disagreements Remain
Doing More and Expecting Less: The Future of US Alliances in the Asia Pacific
Building Toward a Stable and Cooperative Long-Term US-China Strategic Relationship
War and Peace in the East Sea
Mistrust in the US-Japan-ROK Triangle
The Biosecurity Lexicon Project
The US-China Relationship: Avoiding a New Cold War
Sino-US Relations, Regional Security, and Global Governance
America in Response to China’s Rise: Standing Still is Not an Option
ASEAN’s WMD Scorecard
Pyongyang in the Cockpit: Regional Responses to North Korean Provocations
A Shift in Focus: The 18th Japan-US Security Seminar
The US-Japan Alliance
Leading from the Middle: Advocacy Opportunities for Asia Pacific Middle Powers
Trilateral Strategic Cooperative Mechanism Between Japan, the United States, and Vietnam: A Proposal
´The Lynchpin´ Grapples with Frustration and Distrust
On the Rebound: The Alliance Faces New Tests
Progress Despite Disagreements
Balancing Cross-Strait Dynamics
Maritime Interests: China-US Cooperation and Conflicts
Regional Security and Global Governance
The Alliance Rebounds, But Expectations Remain a Problem: The Fourth US-Japan Strategic Dialogue
US-Japan Alliance on the Recovery Path
Responsibility to Protect: Delivering on the Promise
A Strong Alliance Under Stress: The Third US-ROK Strategic Dialogue
Alliances for Tomorrow: Next Generation Views of US Alliances in Southeast Asia
Time for a Caucus: “The Future of US Alliances in Asia”
China in the Pacific: The New Banker in Town
China in the Pacific: The New Banker in Town
A Year of Surprises: The 17th Japan-US Security Seminar
The Future of Power
Evolution of a Multilateral Security Mechanism in Northeast Asia
Strategic Objectives in the New Asian Century
Changing Security Paradigms and Korea’s New Asia Policy: Visions for 2030
Japan-China-ROK-US Dialogue