Conflict and Security in Asia

Briefing Book for Honolulu Security Seminar IV

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Honolulu, Hawaii

December 6 - 10, 1998

Compiled by Sharon Kivenko with Robert Leavitt, Alex Tiersky, and Amy Heffernan

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I. Regional Issues

Smith, Patrick, "A New Asian Cooperation," IntellectualCapital.com, November 12, 1998

 

"'Trialogue': U.S. -Japan-China Relations and Asian-Pacific Stability," United States Institute of Peace Special Report, September 9, 1998

 

Bracken, Paul, "America's Maginot Line," The Atlantic Monthly, December 1998

 

"East Asia and Australasia: Military Developments and Defence Spending," The Military Balance 1998/99, Oxford University Press, October 1998

 

Dupont, Alan, "Energy Scarcity," Chapter 3 in The Environment and Security in Pacific Asia, Adelphi Paper 319, International Institute for Strategic Studies, June 1998

 

Kaneko, Kumao, "Nuclear Energy and Asian Security in the 21st Century: A Proposal for ASIATOM," Energy and Security in Northeast Asia: Proposals for Nuclear Cooperation, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Policy Paper, May 1998

 

Kim, Lt. Commander Duk-Ki, "Cooperative Maritime Security in Northeast Asia," Naval War College Review, Winter 1998

 

 

II. India and Pakistan

 

Norris, Robert S. and William M. Arkin, "After the Tests: India and Pakistan Update," The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 1998

 

Perkovich, George, "Nuclear Proliferation: Nuclear-Weapons Tests in South Asia Prove That The Nonproliferation Regime Has Failed," Foreign Policy, Fall 1998

 

Singh, Jaswant, "Against Nuclear Apartheid," Foreign Affairs, September/October 1998

 

Ramana, M.V., "The Indian Nuclear Bomb," Precis, Fall 1998

 

Ahmed, Samina, "The (Nuclear) Testing of Pakistan," Current History, December 1998

 

Karniol, Robert, "Vital Aid? Pakistan's Dr. A.Q. Khan Responds To Allegations That His Country Had Outside Help In Developing Its Nuclear Weapons," Jane's Defence Weekly, November 4, 1998

 

Talbott, Strobe, "U.S. Diplomacy in South Asia: A Progress Report," U.S. Deputy Secretary of State's Address at The Brookings Institution, November 12, 1998

 

Karp, Jonathan and Carla Anne Robbins, "Eased Nuclear Sanctions Should Lift U.S. Firms," The Wall Street Journal, November 9, 1998

 

Chanda, Nayan, "Secure Arms: U.S. Gives South Asia A Road Map To Weapons Control," Far Eastern Economic Review, November 19, 1998

Bedi, Rahul, "Briefing - Jammu and Kashmir: On The Line Of Fire," Jane's Defence Weekly, September 16, 1998

 

"Central and South Asia: Military Developments, Defence Spending, and Regional Arms Sales," The Military Balance 1998/99, Oxford University Press, October 1998

 

 

III. China and Taiwan

 

Binnendijk, Hans, and Ronald Montaperto, "Strategic Trends in China," CSIS PacNet Newsletter, October 16, 1998

 

Pillsbury, Michael (ed.), "Summaries of the Articles," in Chinese Views of Future Warfare, National Defense University Press, Washington DC, September 1998

 

U.S. Department of Defense, "Future Military Capabilities and Strategy of the People's Republic of China," Report To Congress, October 1998

 

Tucker, Nancy Bernkopf, "A Precarious Balance: Clinton and China," Current History, September 1998

 

Gilley, Bruce, "Stand-Down Order: Reforms Reduce the Influence and Autonomy of ,the People's Liberation Army, But Should Make It More Professional," Far Eastern Economic Review, September 10, 1998

 

Hauqiu, Liu, "No First Use and China's Security," Eliminating Weapons of Mass Destruction: Electronic Essays, The Henry L. Stimson Center, November 9, 1998

 

Lawrence, Susan V., "Miles To Go: Chinese President Jiang's Visit to Japan Might Heal the Wounds of a Past War, But It Won't End Friction with Tokyo Over Taiwan and a Controversial Defence System," Far Eastern Economic Review, November 26, 1998

 

Lakshmanan, Indira A.R., "A Quiet China Army Soothes Hong Kong," The Boston Globe, November 9, 1998

 

"Chinese Flooding Provides Opportunity for Ethnic Separatist Action," Global Intelligence Update, August 18, 1998

 

"Country Risk Report: China," Political and Economic Risk Consultancy, Ltd., October 16, 1998

 

Yates, Stephen J., "Promoting Freedom and Security in U.S.-Taiwan Policy," Executive Summary of Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 1226, October 13, 1998

 

Baum, Julian, "One-Track Mind: Taipei Insists On Democracy Before Unification," Far Eastern Economic Review, October 29, 1998

 

"Country Risk Report: Taiwan," Political and Economic Risk Consultancy, Ltd., October 1, 1998

 

 

IV. Japan

 

Funabashi, Yoichi, "Tokyo's Depression Diplomacy," Foreign Affairs, November/December 1998

 

Cronin, Richard P., "Japan-U.S. Security Relations and the Revised Defense Cooperation Guidelines: Status Report and Policy Options," CRS Report, October 15, 1998

 

Kawano, Capatin Katsutoshi, "Japan's Military Role: Alliance Recommendations for the Twenty-First Century," U.S. Naval War College Review, Autumn 1998

 

"North Korea Offers Opportunity for Japanese Hawks," Global Intelligence Update, Sept. 9, 1998

 

"Japanese to Create a Spy Satellite System,"Asia Intelligence Update, November 2, 1998

 

Beng, Phar Kim, "UN Permanent Seat: The Japanese Quest," Asian Defence and Diplomacy, October 1998

 

 

V. The Korean Peninsula

 

"Mistrust and the Korean Peninsula: Dangers of Miscalculation," United States Institute of Peace Special Report, November 1998

 

Iklé, Fred C., "U.S. Policy Towards North Korea," Statement before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, September 24, 1998

 

Quinones, C. Kenneth, "North Korea's 'New' Nuclear Site - Fact or Fiction?," Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network Special Report, October 5, 1998

 

Independent Task Force on Managing Change on the Korean Peninsula, "Open Letter to President Clinton Regarding North Korea,"Council on Foreign Relations, October 7, 1998

 

"Appropriations for KEDO: U.S. Congress Imposes Conditions on Continued Funding,"Congressional Record, October 19, 1998

 

"KEDO Executive Board Agrees on Cost Sharing for Light Water Reactor Project," Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization Press Release, November 10, 1998

 

Priest, Dana, and Thomas W. Lippman, "N. Korea Expanding Missile Programs," The Washington Post, November 20, 1998

 

Harrison, Selig S., "The Korean Showdown That Shouldn't Happen,"

The Washington Post, November 22, 1998

 

Myong Chol, Kim, "Farewell to 1994 Agreed Framework: N. Korea Will Feel Free to Fabricate N-Payloads to Tip ICBMs with," Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network Special Report, November 24, 1998

 

Paik, Jin-Hyun, "Post-Reunification Korea: The Role of Multilateralism," CSIS PacNet Newsletter, May 1, 1998

 

Young-ho, Park, "International Perceptions of Korean Unification Issues," Korea Focus, January-February 1998

 

"Country Risk Report: South Korea," Political and Economic Risk Consultancy, Ltd., October 3, 1998

 

 

VI. Southeast Asia

 

Blakrishnan, K.S., "ASEAN's Non-Intervention Policy," Asian Defence and Diplomacy, October 1998

 

Haseman, John, "Credibility Gap: The Struggle Of Indonesia's Armed Forces To Rekindle Respect After The Human Rights Abuses Of Soeharto's Regime,"Jane's Defence Weekly, November 18,1998

 

Estrade, Bernard, "Fragmenting Indonesia: A Nation's Survival in Doubt," World Policy Journal, Fall 1998

 

Studeman, Lt. Michael, "Calculating China's Advances in the South China Sea: Identifying the Triggers of 'Expansionism,'" Naval War College Review, Spring 1998

 

Doronila, Amando, "Spratlys Row: Beijing Seeking Military Solution," Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 16, 1998

 

"Philippines Edges Closer to Reviving Military Cooperation with U.S.," Asia Intelligence Update, November 10, 1998

 

Lintner, Bertil, "Lightning Rod: As Burma Draws Fire, All Of Asean Gets Burned," Far Eastern Economic Review, November 12, 1998

 

 

VII. Financial Crisis

 

Dibb, Paul, David D. Hale, and Peter Prince, "The Strategic Implications of Asia's Economic Crisis," Survival, Summer 1998

 

Mochizuki, Mike M., "The East Asian Economic Crisis: Implications," The Brookings Review, Summer 1998

 

Manning, Robert, "The Asian Financial Crisis: Security Risks and Opportunities," 1998 Pacific Symposium Conference Report, National Defense University,May 5-6, 1998

 

Remarks by Ambassador Charles B. Salmon, Jr., "Security Implications of the Financial Crisis," Delivered to the PBEC Conference, Los Angeles, October 19, 1998

 

 

VIII. Russia

 

Khripunov, Igor, and Anupam Srivastava, "From Russia, A Muted Reaction: Russia Is Willing To Look The Other Way To Preserve Close Ties With India," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 1998

 

Garnett, Sherman and Thomas Robinson, "Russia and China," in Binnendijk, Hans and Ronald N. Montaperto (eds.),Strategic Trends in China, National Defense University Press, Washington D.C., June 1998

 

Pomfret, John, "China, Russia Forging Partnership: Concern Over U.S. Domination Leads Nations to Arms Sales, Mutual Shows of Support," The Washington Post, November 21, 1998

 

Ellison, Herbert J., "Russia: Crisis and Reform," National Bureau of Asian Research, NBR Analysis, June 1998

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