Issue 1: Renewing the Pacific Partnership
In this inaugural issue of East-West Dialogue, Charles Morrison and Peter Petri argue that the chemistry of Asia-US relations is failing and requires a new approach built on public diplomacy and regional institutions.
Lead article
Renewing the Pacific Partnership
by Charles E. MORRISON and Peter PETRI
Commentaries
APEC’s Moment of Opportunity
by Taeho BARK
Renewing or Reinventing the Pacific Partnership?
by Peter DRYSDALE
Building a Mutually Indispensable U.S.-Asia Bond
by SHEN Dingli
Supplements
“The Other Deficit”
For further reading…
See selected comments from this Dialogue.
About the contributors
Taheo BARK (Commentator) is Chairman of the Korea International Trade Commission; Dean, Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Seoul National University. More information…
Peter DRYSDALE (Commentator) is Emeritus Professor and Head of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, Crawford School of Economics and Government, former Executive Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre. His main areas of expertise are international trade and economic policy; Australia’s economic relations with East Asia and the Pacific; the East Asian and Japanese economy and economic policy. This work includes developments in Asia Pacific economic cooperation, including relations between East Asia, Europe and APEC. His research work also extends to Chinese and Korean economies. More information…
Charles E. MORRISON (Feature essay author) Charles E. Morrison has been president of the Center since August 1, 1998. He has had extensive involvement in the conceptualization, organization and funding of policy-oriented educational research and dialogue projects in both Japan and the United States, and has long been involved in promoting the concept of Asia Pacific community.
In September 2005, he was elected international chair of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC). He is a founding member of the U.S. Asia Pacific Council, the U.S. National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation and a member of the U.S. Committee for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific. He is a past chair of the U.S. National Consortium of APEC Study Centers. A former director of the Center’s Program on International Economics and Politics, he is a former U.S. Senate aide and a research adviser to binational Japan-U.S. commissions. More information…
Peter A. PETRI (Feature essay author) specializes in international trade, finance, investment and economic integration, with emphasis on East Asia. A member of the Brandeis Economics Department since 1974, he served as the founding dean of the Brandeis International Business School (1994-2006). He is an East-West Center Senior Fellow and has consulted for the World Bank, OECD, the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank and other public and private organizations. His AB and PhD degrees are from Harvard University. He is the Principal Consultant for the Asian Development Bank study: Emerging Regionalism: Ten Years After the Crisis and is the convener of the East-West Dialogue. More information…
SHEN Dingli (Commentator) is Director of the Center for American Studies, Executive Dean of the Institute of International Affairs, Fudan University. He is also the founder and director of China’s first non-government-based Program on Arms Control and Regional Security at Fudan University. More information…
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