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Regional Security Architecture: Some Terms and Organizations

By |2018-11-01T15:06:29-10:00December 5th, 2016|Categories: Courses, Faculty, College, Snedden|

Updated October 31, 2018 “Regional Security Architecture: Some Terms and Organizations” by Dr. Christopher Snedden serves as a primer for those studying the Indo-Asia-Pacific-Region. “I wrote this document to try and better understand what security activities and bodies actually exist in the Asia-Pacific Region,” said Snedden. “In my research, I also hadn’t found a similar document anywhere else that provided such details about what is a complex subject.  There are many security bodies in the Asia-Pacific Region and producing this document really helped me to understand the complexity and inter-connectedness of regional security architecture.” The document discusses many—but not all—of the [...]

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DKI APCSS professor publishes an article on the Maritime Awareness Project website – Prof. Kerry Lynn Nankivell

By |2017-03-09T11:19:05-10:00November 10th, 2016|Categories: Faculty, College, External Publications, KNankivell|

Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies' Professor Kerry Lynn Nankivell published an article entitled "Follow the Fish: Considering Options in the South China Sea"  Nov. 7  on the Maritime Awareness Project (MAPAsia) website. It was a collaboration of the National Bureau of Asian Research and Sasakawa USA. Here is an excerpt from the article: Nearly four months after the landmark UNCLOS arbitration ruling in the case brought by the Philippines against China, President Rodrigo Duterte’s about-face in his approach to the Philippines’ bilateral disputes with China has dominated regional discussion. While this attention is entirely warranted, it has also [...]

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Asia Security after US Hegemony

By |2016-11-01T16:09:50-10:00November 1st, 2016|Categories: Faculty, College, jackson|

Dr. Van Jackson recently wrote about the changing Asian security landscape for “The ASAN Forum.”  Entitled “Asian Security after US Hegemony: Spheres of Influence and the Third Wave of Regional Order,” Jackson writes that the region is in flux due to low trust thanks to a myriad of territorial and strategic disputes.  In his article, he discusses arguments in response to the “next wave of order” problem now facing Asia. According to Jackson: “First, modern Asia has experienced what are popularly recognized as two major epochs or ‘waves’ that broadly defined how regional relations were ordered—Cold War bipolarity and post-Cold War [...]

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Dr. Mohan Malik articles focus on regional security policy dynamics published in World Affairs and Defense Dossier

By |2016-09-28T12:13:19-10:00September 28th, 2016|Categories: Courses, Malik, External Publications|

Dr. Mohan Malik's article “Balancing Act: The China-India-U.S. Triangle”  was published in the Spring 2016 edition of World Affairs.  Malik discusses the evolving security relationships between the three nations, particularly in light of China's aggressive actions in the South China Sea.  He states that "Modi is the first Indian Prime Minister who has not uttered the 'N' word — 'non-alignment' — even once since coming to power in 2014.  A “Modified India” has moved away from this Nehruvian notion to skillfully play the balance-of-power game as a “leading power.”  Malik adds, "Apprehension about China has buried new Delhi's Cold War-era opposition [...]

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Opinion: Preventing Nuclear War with North Korea – Dr. Van Jackson

By |2017-03-09T11:19:56-10:00September 12th, 2016|Categories: Opinions/Editorials, External Publications, jackson|

“Preventing Nuclear War with North Korea” by Dr. Van Jackson was recently published by Foreign Affairs magazine. In the article Jackson discusses N. Korea’s fifth and largest missile and nuclear testing.  In the last four years, N. Korea under Kim Jong Un has conducted 35 missile launches and three nuclear tests. According to Jackson, “North Korea’s nuclear program is now more accelerated, less constrained, and more openly linked to its missile program than at any point in its history. Pyongyang is rushing to deploy a nuclear force that can ensure the regime’s survival by guaranteeing that any attempt to replace it [...]

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Forecasted Impact of Climate Change on Infectious Disease and Health Security in Hawaii by 2050

By |2023-09-14T12:17:17-10:00September 6th, 2016|Categories: Faculty, College, Faculty Articles, Independent Faculty Articles, Canyon|Tags: |

Dr. Deon Canyon co-authored an article titled “Forecasted Impact of Climate Change on Infectious Disease and Health Security in  Hawaii by 2050,” published by the  Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness journal.  Canyon and coauthors Rick Speare and Frederick Burke, discuss the potential impacts of climate change on the study of infectious and vector-borne diseases in Hawaii.  They consider scenarios based on the anticipated effects of higher average temperatures and weather extremes on disease distribution.  Their conclusions recommend a resilience model to increase adaptive capacity for all climate change impacts rather than one focused specifically on communicable diseases.

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Opinion: Resolving the Kashmir Dispute

By |2024-04-01T09:03:37-10:00September 2nd, 2016|Categories: Faculty, College, Faculty Articles, Snedden|

Dr. Christopher Snedden's opinion piece "Self Determination the Only Solution: Resolving the Kashmir Dispute" has been published on-line by Asia & the Pacific Policy Society Policy Forum. Snedden addresses the long-running territorial dispute between India and Pakistan regarding the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Both exercise control in different parts of a region marked by ethnic, sectarian and political tensions. Snedden gives a brief history of the dispute, discusses the instransigent positions of both parties and recommends that people in the contested lands determine their future. In addition, he recently published a similar blog, “Kashmiri unrest will continue if their [...]

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World Humanitarian Summit Report – Dr. Deon Canyon

By |2017-03-09T11:20:34-10:00August 31st, 2016|Categories: Courses, Faculty, College, External Publications, Canyon|

DKI APCSS' Dr. Deon Canyon recently published an article entitled "The 2016 World Humanitarian Summit Report Card: Both Failing Marks and Substantive Gains for an Increasingly Globalized Humanitarian Landscape"  on the PLOS Currents website.  In the article, he reports on the recent World Humanitarian Summit and its impact. Abstract: Outcomes of the World Humanitarian Summit were mixed with some refreshing new directions being endorsed and a lack of systemic reform. The selective agenda and OCHAs lack of success in engaging pre-meeting political participation not only hampered the Summit’s ability to deal with global issues and institutional reform, but also alienated it [...]

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Prof. Kerry Lynn Nankivell publishes S. China Sea fishing article

By |2017-03-09T11:21:12-10:00August 23rd, 2016|Categories: Faculty, College, Faculty Articles, External Publications, KNankivell|

The Diplomat has published Kerry Lynn Nankivell's latest article "South China Sea: Fishing in Troubled Waters."    Nankivell discusses the concept of a U.S.-Philippines fisheries pact as a counter to China’s aggression in the South China Sea.  Despite a ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration denying China’s claim to sovereignty over much of the region, that nation continues to expand its military and commercial exploitation of islands and resources in contested waters.  Nankivell writes that a U.S.-Philippines partnership to enforce fishing rights in the Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone could offer a “natural, non-escalatory” means to ensure rule of law in Southeast [...]

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