Series

The East-West Center contributes to a peaceful, prosperous and just Asia Pacific community by serving as a hub for cooperative research, education and dialogue on critical issues of common concern to the Asia Pacific region and the US. The East-West Center Policy Studies series provides an in-depth examination of policy issues in areas and on topics of critical importance to the peace and stability of the Asia-Pacific region.

Publishers: East-West Center (EWC)
Publications: The Mekong Matters for America / America Matters for the Mekong
Defending the Maritime Rules-Based Order: Regional Responses to the South China Sea Disputes
China and the United States as Aid Donors
Papua's Insecurity: State Failure in the Indonesian Periphery
Reinventing Asian Populism: Jokowi's Rise, Democracy, and Political Contestation in Indonesia
Contesting Buddhist Narratives: Democratization, Nationalism, and Communal Violence in Myanmar
Flexible Implementation: A Key to Asia's Transformation
ASEAN Centrality and the ASEAN-US Economic Relationship
Ethnic Policy in China: Is Reform Inevitable?
How Mobile is the Footloose Industry?
Patterns of Free Trade Areas in Asia
America's Voluntary Standards System
Mobilizing Resources, Building Coalitions: Local Power in Indonesia
Breaking with the Past?
Beyond Armed Resistance: Ethnonational Politics in Burma (Myanmar)
Is China's Indigenous Innovation Strategy Compatible with Globalization?
Economic Reforms, Regionalism, and Exports
Engaging North Korea
Benevolent Benefactor or Insensitive Regulator?
Executive Accountability in Southeast Asia
Separate but Loyal
Ethno-Diplomacy
The State Strikes Back: India and the Naga Insurgency
The Global Economic Crisis and Its Implications for Asian Economic Cooperation
A New Geography of Knowledge in the Electronics Industry?
Civil Society in Uncivil Places
Peace Accords in Northeast India: Journey over Milestones
Economy of the Conflict Region in Sri Lanka: From Embargo to Repression
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Centralization, Multiple Conflicts, and Democratic State Building in Nepal
Conflict and Peace in India's Northeast: The Role of Civil Society
Muslim Perspectives on the Sri Lankan Conflict
Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology: Implications for Politics and Conflict Resolution in Sri Lanka
Creating a
Postfrontier Blues: Toward a New Policy Framework for Northeast India
Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: Changing Dynamics
Legalizing Religion: The Indian Supreme Court and Secularism
Counterterrorism Legislation in Sri Lanka: Evaluating Efficacy
Japanese Public Opinion and the War on Terrorism: Implications for Japan's Security Strategy
Taiwan's Rising Rationalism: Generations, Politics, and
Initiating a Peace Process in Papua: Actors, Issues, Process, and the Role of the International Community
Muslim Resistance in Southern Thailand and Southern Phillipines: Religion, Ideology, and Politics
The Politics of Military Reform in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Elite Conflict, Nationalism, and Institutional Resistance
India's Globalization
China's Rise: Implications for US Leadership in Asia
The Helsinki Agreement
Nine Lives?: The Politics of Constitutional Reform in Japan
Islamic Radicalism and Anti-Americanism in Indonesia
Forging Sustainable Peace in Mindanao
Meeting the China Challenge
The Xinjiang Conflict: Uyghur Identity, Language Policy, and Political Discourse
Constructing Papuan Nationalism: History, Ethnicity, and Adaption
Plural Society in Peril: Migration, Economic Change, and the Papua Conflict
Sino-Tibetan Dialogue in the Post-Mao Era: Lessons and Prospects
Autonomy in Xinjiang: Han Nationalist Imperatives and Uyghur Discontent
Secessionist Challenges in Aceh and Papua: Is Special Autonomy the Solution?
The HDC in Aceh: Promises and Pitfalls of NGO Mediation and Implementation
The Moro Conflict: Landlessness and Misdirected State Policies
The Tibet-China Conflict: History and Polemics
Violent Separatism in Xinjiang: A Critical Assessment
The Papua Conflict: Jakarta's Perception and Policies
Beijing's Tibet Policy: Securing Sovereignty and Legitimacy
Security Operations in Aceh: Goals, Consequences, and Lessons
The Free Aceh Movement (GAM): Anatomy of a Separatist Organization
The Aceh Peace Process: Why it Failed
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