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Application Deadline Nears For Asia Pacific Leadership Program

HONOLULU (Oct. 30) – The application deadline for the East-West Center's Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) – widely regarded as the premier leadership education program in the Asia region – is December 1, 2008. 

Application forms and detailed information about the program are available on the APLP website...more...

Lou Cannon: Poor News Coverage Rather Than Race Is Big Factor In Presidential Election

HONOLULU (Oct. 24) —The historic presidential contest between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain will hang less on unacknowledged racism than many people believe, according to veteran journalist Lou Cannon.

But the race has been impacted by the failure of the American press to adequately explain the stakes at hand, Cannon argued in a speech here this week
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How (and Why) the U.S. Should Help Build an ASEAN Economic Community

By Michael G. Plummer

Note: This article is distilled from the latest edition of the East-West Center’s interactive “East-West Dialogue” Series, which can be found on the Web.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ agreement to create a unified market by 2015 is an extremely ambitious project, going well beyond anything that ASEAN has ever done in the past. The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) would establish free flows of goods, services and foreign direct investment, as well as freer skilled labor and cross-border capital flows. . . more . . .

FEATURED EVENTS

"Trading Tastes: Islam, the Indian Ocean, and the Asia-Africa Interchange,
Islamic workshop on history, economics and culture
Where: Charleston, South Carolina
When: November 6, 2008 to November 8, 2008

Seminar: The Global and Asian Energy Balance and the Financial Crises: Have the Tables Turned?
Research Brown Bag Seminar
Where: John A. Burns Hall, Room 3012
When: November 18, 2008

8th Annual International Graduate Student Conference
Paper Presentations on the Asia-Pacific Region
Where: Honolulu, Hawaii
When: February 12, 2009 to February 14, 2009

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Spotlight on Publications

Wendy Dobson (right), professor and director of the Institute for International Business at the University of Toronto, and EWC Senior Fellow Shabbir Cheema (far left) at the EWC Senior Policy Seminar 2008.

Senior Policy Seminar 2008 Report--
Shifting Currents of U.S. and Asia Pacific Economics, Resources, and Security

The next American president will face an Asia Pacific region enjoying a “long peace,” but threatened by turmoil and uncertainty in health, the environment, and particularly the international economy. These are among the central conclusions of a gathering of policy experts, academics, and current or former government officials who met in Honolulu for the East-West Center’s annual Senior Policy Seminar. At the top of the agenda of this year’s gathering was the current turmoil in the U.S. and international economies, its impact on the region, and how these issues will impact the next U.S. administration.   Click here to download the Senior Policy Seminar 2008 report.

FEATURED PUBLICATIONS

How (and Why) the United States Should Help to Build the ASEAN Economic Community
by Michael G. Plummer with responses by Scot A. Marciel, Kishore Mahbubani, and Chalongphob Sussangkarn

Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis
by Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu (eds.)

Guarding the Guardians: Accountability and Anticorruption in Fiji's Cleanup Campaign
by Peter Larmour

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