East Asia Program
THE EAST ASIA PROGRAM seeks to illuminate and fashion practical solutions to many of the complex security challenges confronting East Asia and the Asia-Pacific region today. The Program’s work related to the PRC and Taiwan focuses heavily on bilateral relations between the United States and the two sides of the Strait, as well as on the dynamic of cross-Strait relations. The analysis of issues involves a detailed examination of Taiwan domestic political developments as well as US strategic interests in the region more broadly. The Program's Japan-centered work examines the implications of Japan's evolving security policy and US-Japan alliance relations, and it seeks to promote bilateral cooperation on a number of regional and global strategic issues. The Program also deals closely with the Korean Peninsula, exploring North Korean nuclear issues, inter-Korean relations, and the US-ROK alliance. READ MORE »
Current Research
PRC, Taiwan, and Cross-Strait Relations » In examining United States relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which now encompasses virtually the full spectrum of political, security, economic and cultural interests, the East Asia Program focuses in particular on political and strategic relations. Taiwan as a focus of its own, and also as a central element in cross-Taiwan Strait relations, is an area of concentrated work. READ MORE »
Japan » Japan-related initiatives under the East Asia Program examine the implications of Japan's evolving security policy and seeks to strengthen US–Japan cooperation on a number of regional and global strategic issues. They also aim to facilitate exchanges and network-building between Japanese government and non-government security policy experts and their US counterparts across generations. Ongoing initiatives are: Japan’s New Defense Establishment: Institutions, Capabilities, and Implications; US–Japan Security Cooperation beyond Global Posture Review; Japan’s Security Policy Infrastructure; and the Visiting Fellows Program for Japan. READ MORE »
Korea » The US alliance with the Republic of Korea (ROK or South Korea) is an essential element in the maintenance of peace and stability on the Peninsula and in the region in general. Yet that alliance has undergone—and continues to experience—significant strains. It is currently being transformed in important ways, and the Program will continue to pay attention to how that transformation moves forward, seeking to illuminate in what ways the changes under way can strengthen both bilateral relations and regional stability, and in what ways it might have the opposite effect. READ MORE »
Visiting Fellows Program »
An active Visiting Fellows Program, bringing promising East Asian academics, journalists, government officials and military officers to Washington, DC to conduct research and exchange views with US colleagues and counterparts.
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