East-West Center

ISSN 2330-717X

Mongolia Reassesses Foreign Policy Strategies After 25 Years Of Democracy – Analysis

By Alicia Campi Mongolia is spending 2015 celebrating 25 years of democracy while reassessing its progress in nation building and

By Paul Lushenko and Jon Lushenko* As the successful completion of negotiations on the Trans‐Pacific Partnership (TPP) free‐trade deal –

A study led by East-West Center researchers and funded by the National Science Foundation has confirmed suspicions that “peri-urban” areas

By Vibhanshu Shekhar* ASEAN’s nightmares are never‐ending. While it is struggling to keep itself united amidst enormous pressure from the

By Justin Chock* In 2012, China’s 18th Party Congress set the overall goal of building China into a “strong maritime

By US Ambassador Richard Verma In 1947 as Jackie Robinson was getting ready to play his first major league game,

By Denny Roy The South China Sea territorial dispute increasingly looks like a point of strategic friction between the United