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Communication and Strategy Development

By |2018-06-26T13:32:47-10:00February 5th, 2015|Categories: Faculty, College, Faculty Articles, Independent Faculty Articles, Finley|

“Strategy and communication are an integral whole — best practiced as art, not science,” by Herman F. Finley, in his new paper, Communication and Strategy Development. “The strategist, as artist, uses principles not checklists, intuition more than rules, to collaboratively shape a better future in a world composed of interconnected complex adaptive systems.” This article is the companion piece to a broader strategy development essay to be written by Finley, an associate professor, who lectures on information technology, strategic communications and complexity at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. According to Finley, “A first step in understanding the linkages between communication and strategy [...]

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Why North Korea Won’t Follow Myanmar’s Path to Reform – Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd

By |2017-03-09T13:16:03-10:00January 7th, 2015|Categories: Courses, Faculty, Kim, Independent Faculty Articles, External Publications, Byrd|

Dr. Steven Kim Dr. Steven Kim and Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd recently collaborated on an article discussing whether North Korea would follow Myanmar in adopting institutional reforms. Their article "Worlds Apart: Why North Korea Won't Follow Myanmar's Path to Reform," which appears in the 2014 Winter edition of Global Asia, compares the two countries in terms of the factors affecting their decision regarding reform. In the article they state: "The reason that reforms in Myanmar have raised such high expectations for North Korea is the perceived similarities of the two regimes. As with North Korea today, under military control [...]

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Editorial: Onaga’s Victory Means More Delays for the Futenma Replacement Facility

By |2017-03-09T13:27:57-10:00December 18th, 2014|Categories: Faculty, Fouse|

Editorial by David Fouse, Ph.D. The long and winding road to building a replacement facility for the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture has hit another substantial obstacle with victory of Former Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga in the recent Okinawa governor’s election. Onaga won a convincing victory over incumbent Hirokazu Nakaima, gaining 360,820 votes, nearly 100,000 more than Nakaima, who received 261,076. Onaga campaigned against the planned relocation and is now well positioned to throw some major kinks into a process that was already scheduled to take another eight to nine years to complete. Although Japan’s [...]

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Japan Chair Platform: Japan Matters for South Korea’s Security

By |2017-03-09T13:16:51-10:00November 13th, 2014|Categories: Faculty, College, Hornung|

Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies' (APCSS) Dr. Jeffrey Hornung published an article titled "Japan Chair Platform: Japan Matters for South Korea’s Security" on Center for Strategic and International Studies website Nov. 10. Here is an excerpt from the article: A few months ago, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan raised concerns in South Korea when he stated in a Diet committee hearing that U.S. Marines cannot rush to defend South Korea without first engaging in prior consultation with Japan. Seoul’s fear is that Abe can effectively control Washington’s assistance to Seoul in a contingency on the Korean peninsula. What Abe said [...]

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Vietnam, the United States, and Japan in the South China Sea

By |2014-11-13T10:20:13-10:00November 13th, 2014|Categories: Courses, Faculty, Vuving|

Between May and July this year, China deployed a drilling rig in South China Sea waters claimed by Vietnam as part of its exclusive economic zone. The move heightened tensions between the two nations and caused several states to weigh in on the side of Vietnam; the United States and Japan among them.   In his latest paper, "Vietnam, the United States and Japan in the South China Sea," Dr. Alexander Vuving examines what's at stake in the disputed waters in terms of economic and strategic value. He looks particularly at Vietnam's efforts to stake its claim in an area believed [...]

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Mongolia’s Counter-Terrorism Architecture: Implications for Domestic Development and Foreign Partnership

By |2014-10-06T11:19:20-10:00October 6th, 2014|Categories: Reeves|

Why would a counter terrorism policy matter in a country where terrorism isn’t a major threat?  Dr. Jeffrey Reeves looks at the long-term benefits of Mongolia’s counter terrorism law in his latest paper: “Mongolia’s Counter-Terrorism Architecture: Implications for Domestic Development and Foreign Partnership.” “For Mongolia, counter-terrorism is as much about fostering inter-agency cooperation and facilitating foreign cooperation as it is about securing the country from a largely theoretical threat,” says Reeves.  Read more online at:  https://dkiapcss.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Terrorism-in-Mongolia-Reeves-Oct2014.pdf

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Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from China, India, and the United States

By |2014-10-06T09:09:31-10:00October 6th, 2014|Categories: Malik|

In Spring 2013, the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies hosted a workshop entitled “Maritime Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific Region: China, India and U.S. Perspectives.”  Proceedings from the workshop have just been published in a new book, “Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from China, India, and the United States.” According to Dr. Mohan Malik, workshop academic lead and book editor, “this book brings together a cross-section of outstanding practitioners, policymakers, scholars and analysts from China, India, Australia and the United States many of whom have records of distinguished military, government and diplomatic service, and play important roles in maritime security policy [...]

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APCSS Professor Discusses the Influence of Scholarship on Counterterrorism in China

By |2014-10-02T09:58:43-10:00October 2nd, 2014|Categories: Research, Reeves|

An article on how “Ideas and Influence: Scholarship as a Harbinger of Counterterrorism Institutions, Policies and Laws in the People’s Republic of China” by Dr. Jeffrey Reeves was just published in the “Terrorism and Political Violence” journal. In the article, Reeves demonstrates how scholarship on terrorism in China has provided the intellectual backdrop against which China's leadership has developed the country's counterterrorism institutions, policies, and laws.  He suggests that “building on the linkages between scholarship and policy-making may create potential avenues for policy reform in China's current counterterrorism architecture.” The full article is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2014.955915  Alumni, please note, that [...]

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Time for Japan’s Abe to Go Slow

By |2017-03-09T13:28:24-10:00July 28th, 2014|Categories: Faculty Articles|Tags: |

Editorial:   By Jeffrey W. Hornung Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, reflecting with Foreign Affairs (July/August 2013) on his short, first tenure as premier, remarked “when I served as prime minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once, and ended my administration in failure.” The dominant narrative during Abe’s second, and current, administration is that, unlike the one-year (mostly forgettable) administrations that preceded him, Abe’s has been successful.  While there is no doubt that Abe is succeeding in passing numerous initiatives, there is a question of whether Abe is, in fact, doing [...]

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