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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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