Latest NewsAudio: An Inside Perspective on North KoreaA conversation with Prof. Hazel SmithClick the audio icon to listen to an interview about North Korean security and food issues with Prof. Hazel Smith of England’s Warwick University, a recent visiting fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu. An expert on North Korean security and humanitarian issues, Prof. Smith has visited the country frequently and lived there between 1998 and 2001 while working for the World Food Programme and UNICEF. In this interview, she draws from that experience to reveal that North Korea is no longer as monolithic or centralized a nation as many believe it to be – a viewpoint that prompts reconsideration of a variety of issues, from talks on denuclearization to the nature of North Korea’s current food crisis. . . more . . . |
Spotlight on PublicationsEast-West Dialogue Discusses the U.S. Role in Fostering the ASEAN Economic CommunityIn the latest issue of the East-West Dialogue, How (and Why) the United States Should Help to Build the ASEAN Economic Community, EWC Senior Fellow Michael Plummer calls for ambitious new initiatives, leading to a U.S.-ASEAN Economic Space that would develop a framework for expanding FTAs and a U.S.-ASEAN Partnership Fund to deepen civic and cultural ties. These ideas are elaborated on in commentaries by Scot Marciel (U.S. Ambassador to ASEAN), Kishore Mahbubani (former Singaporean Ambassador to the UN), and Chalongphob Sussangkarn (former Thai Minister of Finance). FEATURED PUBLICATIONSby Rosita MacDonald Burma's Dramatic Year: Harbingers of Transition? by Priscilla Clapp Changing Education: Leadership, Innovation and Development in a Globalizing Asia Pacific by Peter D. Hershock, Mark Mason, and John N. Hawkins (eds.) East-West Views Blog![]() |