Dear SSJ Forum members,

The newest issue of NBR's journal ASIA POLICY has just been released and all articles are free to access through March 15, 2011.

ASIA POLICY - Number 11 (January 2011)
http://www.nbr.org/Publications/issue.aspx?id=218

Some articles that may be of particular interest to SSJ members include:

Complex Patchworks: U.S. Alliances as Part of Asia's Regional Architecture By Victor D. Cha, Georgetown University

A definite security architecture is emerging and evolving in Asia. This architecture is not dominated by China, nor is it characterized by U.S. diminution; rather, it is inclusive of the major powers in the region.
Victor D. Cha argues that regional architecture must overcome a clear security dilemma to realize its positive potential.
http://www.nbr.org/publications/element.aspx?id=482

Asia's Complex Strategic Environment: Nuclear Multipolarity and Other Dangers By Christopher P.
Twomey, Naval Postgraduate School

Today, Asia is a multipolar nuclear environment in which long-range nuclear weapons are joined by other systems with strategic effect, and in which countries hold different views about the role and utility of nuclear weapons. Christopher P. Twomey discusses the implications of these shifts from the Cold War to the present.
http://www.nbr.org/publications/element.aspx?id=483

The Asian Monetary Fund Reborn? Implications of Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization By William W.
Grimes, Boston University

Some observers have argued that Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization (CMIM) is a major step toward the creation of an Asian monetary fund that would be fully autonomous from the IMF. William W. Grimes analyzes the current implications and likely future course of CMIM and argues that for the time being CMIM will remain nested within global institutions.
http://www.nbr.org/publications/element.aspx?id=484

Plus book reviews of Terutomo Ozawa's "The Rise of
Asia: The 'Flying-Geese' Theory of Tandem Growth and Regional Agglomeration" and Daniel P. Aldrich's "Site
Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West"

Link to reviews:
http://www.nbr.org/publications/element.aspx?id=487

To download the entire issue or peruse the Asia Policy journal archive, please visit:
http://www.nbr.org/Publications/issue.aspx?id=218

Tracy Timmons-Gray
Assistant Director, Online Outreach
The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)