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[December 2007]
Commentary 18 December 2007	U.S.-Australia: Still Mates! By Ralph A. Cossa (President, Pacific Forum CSIS)

[November 2007]
Commentary 30 November 2007	The Democratic Path for Hong Kong: Background and Implications By Ruben Armando Escalante H (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
Commentary 28 November 2007	ASEAN at 40: Perception and Reality By Tommy Koh (Ambassador-at-Large and director at the Institute of Policy Studies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore)
Commentary 22 November 2007	ASEAN Charter: One (Very) Small Step Forward By Ralph A. Cossa (President, Pacific Forum CSIS)
Commentary 16 November 2007	The Abductee Issue is a Test of America's Strategic Credibility By Michael Green (Advisor and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Associate Professor at Georgetown University) and James Przystup (Senior Fellow at the National Defense University)
Commentary 12 November 2007	Seesaw Politics in Japan By Brad Glosserman (Executive Director, Pacific Forum CSIS)

[October 2007]
Commentary 19 October 2007	What's Next for Korea? By Troy Stangarone (Director of Congressional Affairs and Trade for the Korea Economic Institute)
Commentary 18 October 2007	Why Amplified Sound is a Problem for Japan By Daniel Dolan (Professor, Tohoku University)
Commentary 12 October 2007	North-South Summit: Potential Pitfalls Ahead? By Ralph A. Cossa (President, Pacific Forum CSIS)
Commentary 5 October 2007	Myanmar and the Loss of Legitimacy By David I. Steinberg (Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University)

[September 2007]
Commentary 27 September 2007	Can Fukuda Yasuo Save the LDP? By Sheila A. Smith (Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Affairs)
Commentary 25 September 2007	Achieving Better Democracy Likely to Require Sweat, Tears By Masahiko ISHIZUKA (Councilor for the Foreign Press Center Japan and a Lecturer at Waseda University)
Commentary 18 September 2007	Wanted: More Clarity from Ozawa on the U.S.-Japan Alliance By Weston S. Konishi (Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for International Policy Studies)
Commentary 13 September 2007	The End of Abe's Agony By Brad Glosserman (Executive Director, Pacific Forum CSIS)
Commentary 7 September 2007	Harvard Endowment Points One Way Forward for Struggling Japanese Universities (with Follow-up Comment) By Daniel DOLAN (Professor of Business Communication, Tohoku University)
Commentary 5 September 2007	ASEAN at 40: Coming of Age or Mid-Life Crisis? By Ralph A. Cossa (President, Pacific Forum CSIS)

[August 2007]
Commentary 27 August 2007	Harvard Endowment Points One Way Forward for Struggling Japanese Universities By Daniel DOLAN (Professor of Business Communication, Tohoku University)
Commentary 20 August 2007	Prudence for Peace: South Korea-U.S. Coordination Must Come Before Talks to End Korean War By Leif-Eric Easley (Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University and visiting scholar at UCLA) and Junbeom Pyon (The 2006-07 Vasey Fellow at the Pacific Forum CSIS)
Commentary 3 August 2007	Should He Stay or Should He Go? Japan's Debate Over the LDP's Electoral Defeat By Sheila A. Smith (Japan Fellow at the Council on Foreign Affairs)
Commentary 1 August 2007	Japan: Creative Leadership Needed By Brad Glosserman (Executive Director, Pacific Forum CSIS)

[July 2007]
Commentary 24 July 2007	UN Referendum Brings U.S.-Taiwan Relations to a New Low By Bonnie S. Glaser (Senior Associate, Pacific Forum CSIS)

[June 2007]
Commentary 27 June 2007	Hats off to Hill! By Ralph A. Cossa (President, Pacific Forum CSIS)
Comment 25 June 2007	Rejoinder to Jin Yi Chen on "Global Mindset in the Information Age" By Kanzo KOBAYASHI (Visiting Research Fellow, GLOCOM, IUJ, and Secretariat Division, ITC Coordinators Association)
Comment 22 June 2007	Comment on Prof. Kazuhito Ikeo's Article "Integrity is Indispensable for Capital Market Development" By Maximiliano Durazo (University of Southern California, USA)
Comment 21 June 2007	Commenting on Kanzo Kobayashi's "Global Mindset in the Information Age" By Jun Yi Chen (University of Southern California, USA)
Comment 20 June 2007	Rejoinder to Nelisa Asato on "Should Japan Kill the Death Penalty?" By Daniel Dolan (Professor, Tohoku University)
Comment 20 June 2007	Response to Daniel Dolan's Commentary "Should Japan Kill the Death Penalty?" By Nelisa Asato (University of Southern California, USA)
Comment 20 June 2007	Comment on Robert Dujarric's Article "Options for Japan and the U.S. Toward North Korea in a Post-Iraq World" By Nicolas F. Tognoni (University of Southern California, USA)
Comment 19 June 2007	Comment on Mr. Ishizuka's Article "Abe's Reform Drive a Battle with Deeply Rooted Bureaucracy" By Michael R. Finstad (University of Southern California, USA)
Comment 19 June 2007	Commenting on Anthony P. D'Costa's Article "Can India Meet Japan's Technical Worker Needs?" By Mansi Parikh (University of Southern California, USA)

[May 2007]
Commentary 31 May 2007	Should Japan Kill the Death Penalty? By Daniel DOLAN (Professor, Tohoku University)
Commentary 28 May 2007	Japan Infiltrates the Middle East By Shirzad Azad (Researcher, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
Commentary 11 May 2007	U.S.-Japan: Why So Nervous? By Ralph A. Cossa (President, Pacific Forum CSIS)
Commentary 2 May 2007	And Now to Trilateralism By Brad Glosserman (Executive Director, Pacific Forum CSIS) and Bonnie Glaser (Associate at Pacific Forum CSIS and CSIS in Washington D.C)
Commentary 2 May 2007	China's 'New Diplomacy' Goes to Tokyo By Jianwei Wang (Professor of Political Science at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point)

[April 2007]
Commentary 27 April 2007	Balancing Interests in the KORUS FTA By Troy Stangarone (Director of Congressional Affairs and Trade for the Korea Economic Institute)
Commentary 24 April 2007	North Korea Nuclear Deal: Better Late than Never! By Ralph A. Cossa (President, Pacific Forum CSIS)
Commentary 20 April 2007	Nuclear Basics for the Alliance By Brad Glosserman (Executive Director, Pacific Forum CSIS)
Commentary 17 April 2007	Energy Diplomacy with Attitude By Kevin G. Nealer (Partner in The Scowcroft Group, an international business advisory firm)
Commentary 10 April 2007	'Holier Than Thou'? Comfort Women Apology Should be Primarily about the Treatment of Women By Katharine H.S. Moon (Associate professor in the department of political science at Wellesley College and associate fellow, Asia Society in New York City)

[March 2007]
Commentary 22 March 2007	The Australia-Japan Security Agreement: Between a Rock and a Hard Place? By Brendan Taylor (Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University)
Commentary 20 March 2007	Japan's New "Values-Oriented Diplomacy": A Double Edged Sword By David Fouse (Assistant Research Professor in the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies' Regional Studies Department)
Commentary 15 March 2007	Abe's Comfort Women Remarks: What Was He Thinking? By Ralph A. Cossa (President, Pacific Forum CSIS) and Brad Glosserman (Executive Director, Pacific Forum CSIS)
Commentary 12 March 2007	An Opec for Gas in the Pipeline By Michael Richardson (Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore)
Commentary 9 March 2007	Coping with Floods and Humanitarian Emergencies: Can Southeast Asia Afford to Wait? By Mely Caballero-Anthony (Assistant Professor at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS))
Commentary 7 March 2007	Dangerous Denial of Sex Slaves By Frank Ching (Commentator based in Hong Kong)
Commentary 2 March 2007	Frog in the Well and Chicken Little By Shirley Kan (Specialist in security issues related to China and to Taiwan at the Congressional Research Service (CRS) in Washington, DC)

[February 2007]
Commentary 28 February 2007	Make the Working Groups Work By James L. Schoff (Associate Director of Asia-Pacific Studies at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis in Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Commentary 28 February 2007	Promising Steps with Pyongyang By Frank Ching (Commentator based in Hong Kong)
Commentary 27 February 2007	Al Qaeda's China Problem By Martin I. Wayne (China Security Fellow at the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies)
Commentary 23 February 2007	For Taiwan, the Best Defense is not a Good Offense By Michael McDevitt (Vice President at the Center for Naval Analyses)
Commentary 22 February 2007	Stone-Age Mindset That Shackles Japan By Kevin Rafferty (Author of "Inside Japan's Powerhouses")
Commentary 21 February 2007	China's Missile Targets More than a Satellite By Patrick M. Cronin (Director of studies of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London)
Commentary 19 February 2007	Six Party Talks: Progress or Breakdown? By Chadwick I. Smith (Consultant based in Japan)
Commentary 16 February 2007	Korean Peninsula Denuclearization: First Steps By Ralph A. Cossa (President, Pacific Forum CSIS)
Commentary 14 February 2007	The Space Race Nobody Wanted By Frank Ching (Commentator based in Hong Kong)
Commentary 13 February 2007	A More Meaningful U.S.-Korea Alliance By Troy Stangarone (Director of Congressional Affairs and Trade for the Korea Economic Institute of America)
Commentary 9 February 2007	Asian Woes at Iran's Oil Pumps By Michael Richardson (Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore)
Commentary 9 February 2007	North Korea Six-Party Talks: A Bitter Pill to Swallow By Scott Snyder (Senior Associate, Pacific Forum CSIS and Asia Foundation)
Commentary 7 February 2007	Six-Party Talks: Searching for the "First Tranche" By Ralph A. Cossa (President, Pacific Forum CSIS)
Commentary 5 February 2007	The Middle East - Good News for a Change, Out of Asia By Richard W. Baker (Special Assistant to the President of the East-West Center in Honolulu)
Commentary 2 February 2007	A Yellow Light for Indonesia By Donald E. Weatherbee (Donald S. Russell Professor Emeritus at the University of Carolina)
Commentary 2 February 2007	World Trade: Why China and India Need to Lead By Mike Moore (former Prime Minister of New Zealand and former Director-General of the World Trade Organisation)

[January 2007]
Commentary 26 January 2007	Coping with Abe: Time for "New Thinking" in China's Japan Policy By Wang Liang (Research Intern with the International Security Program-Asia at CSIS)
Commentary 24 January 2007	Mr. Abe's Aggressive Agenda By Brad Glosserman (Executive Director, Pacific Forum CSIS)
Commentary 24 January 2007	From the JDA to the MoD - A Step Forward, but Challenges Remain By Yuki Tatsumi (Research Fellow at The Henry Stimson Center) and Ken Jimbo (Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Policy Management at Keio University)
Commentary 24 January 2007	Sino-US Conflict: Wrestling with the Spectre of an Arms Race in Space By Deep Kisor Datta-Ray (London-based historian and commentator on Asian affairs)
Commentary 19 January 2007	Whither Taiwan and Cross-Strait Relations in 2007? By Bonnie Glaser (Senior Associate, Pacific Forum CSIS)
Commentary 19 January 2007	China: An Eminently Respectable Stand By Frank Ching (Commentator based in Hong Kong)
Commentary 12 January 2007	When the Heat is On - at the East Asia Summit By Michael Richardson (Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore)
Commentary 5 January 2007	The Six-Party Talks: A Sign of Hope . . . or Hopeless? By Ralph A. Cossa (President, Pacific Forum CSIS)
Commentary 5 January 2007	China: Year of the Three Big Headaches By Laurence Brahm (Political Economist, founder of Shambhala Foundation)

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