Kahler, International Relations of the Pacific
Research Resources
News
General
China/Hong Kong/Taiwan
Japan
Southeast Asia
Miscellaneous
Resources for Group Projects
Research Centers/Think Tanks
Government Organizations
Academic Resources
Library Resources
University Programs
Scholarly Associations
International Organizations
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
Statistics
Foreign Language Search Engines
NEWSPAPERS
General Sources
CNN’s Asia Now
* Asian counterpart of CNN web site in the United States
* Daily political, cultural, business and sports news
* Links to Asia Week, a Time equivalent
Asia Source
* Reprints English-language articles on Asian countries for the current week
* Special reports on issues
* Demographic, social, economic, and military data for individual countries with an alternative comparative approach
Asia Times
* Primary business news but includes politics
* Special articles and text of other area newspapers
* Archive is searchable
Asia-Pacific Network
* Portal for on-line news about the Asia-Pacific region
BBC News Asia-Pacific Page
BizAsia News (English-language news)
* Updates its "Asian Newsstand" reporting every 15 minutes.
Far Eastern Economic Review
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China/Hong Kong/Taiwan
China News Digest
* English summary of news around the world about China
* Issued on daily basis with archives since 1995
* Search engine does not cover entire archive but can be useful
China Daily
* English-language version
China Today
* Claims to be "the most comprehensive information base on today's China." Covers a wide range of information, from armed forces to sports.
Inside China Today
* News, business, culture, and travel information
* News service archived to December 1, 1996
Internet Distributed Chinese Magazines (link currently unavailable. See www.cathay.net)
* Electronic magazines in seven subject areas: General, Literature, Arts & Humanities, Politics & Economics, Science & Education, Religion, and Others. Some have full-text articles.
South China Morning Post
* Hong Kong based, English-language newspaper
Taipei Times (English-language news)
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Japan
Mainichi Shimbun (Japanese-language news)
Asahi Shimbun (Japanese-language news)
Japan Times
* English-language version
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South East Asia
Bangkok Post (English-language news)
Business Day (English-language news)
* Thai daily business paper
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Miscellaneous
EurasiaNet
* Current week's news Central Asia since 1999 with special pages on the old Soviet republics
Vladivostok News
* English-language newspaper of the Russian far east
* Political and business news with candid editorials
* Archived since December 1995 with a search engine
* Links to the daily version
Radio New Zealand International
New Zealand Herald
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RESOURCES FOR GROUP PROJECTS
U.S.-China relations and the economic crisis
United States Treasury
Chinese Ministry of Finance
US-China Institute
Xinhua News Agency
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
U.S.-China Business Council
Pacific Islands in the Pacific region
South Pacific Forum
Forum Fisheries Agency
Pacific Islands Association of NGOs
Pacific Islands Private Sector Organization
South Pacific Regional Environmental Program
Pacific Islands Development Program
Regional cooperation in counter-terrorism
ASEAN Transnational Crime and International Terrorism Program
Asian Regional Forum reports
* These can be searched for the annual reports on counter-terrorism
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation - Task Force on Counter-terrorism
Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering
A New Security Mechanism for Northeast Asia
The Atlantic Council
Council on Foreign Relations Northeast Asia resources
Nautilus Institute
Northeast Asia Economic Forum
Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia
Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
U. S. Policy toward the Pacific in the Obama Administration
U.S. State Department Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Council on Foreign Relations East Asia resources
Center on Strategic and International Studies Asia resources
International Crisis Group Asia resources
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
ASEAN and international crisis management
ASEAN
Institute for Democracy and Elections Assistance paper on ASEAN-Burmese relations
BBC News article on ASEAN-Burma issue
Democratic Voice of Burma
RESEARCH CENTERS/THINK TANKS
The East-West Center
* “The East-West Center is an internationally recognized education and research organization that helps promote the establishment of a stable, peaceful and prosperous Asia Pacific community in which the United States is a natural, valued and leading partner.”
Pacific Forum CSIS
* Based in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Pacific Forum CSIS is a non-profit, private, foreign policy research institute that operates as the Asia Pacific arm of the Center for Strategic and International Studies of Washington, D.C.
* Founded in 1975, the thrust of the Forum's work is to help stimulate cooperative policies in the Asia Pacific region through debate and analyses undertaken with the region's leaders in the academic, government, and corporate arenas.'
The National Bureau of Asian Research (Seattle, WA)
* "A nonprofit, nonpartisan institution that conducts advanced research utilizing the world"s premier specialists on Asia and Russia. It also serves as the international clearinghouse on expertise and important policy issues concerning the region."
North Asia - Dept. of Foreign Affairs & Trade (DFAT,Australia)
* Reports and working papers on important medium to long-term economic and political developments and issues within the region. They draw on a wide range of data and information sources, including reports from Australia's diplomatic and trade missions in Asia.
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GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS
U.S. Department of State: Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI)
North Asia - Dept. of Foreign Affairs & Trade (DFAT, Australia)
* Reports and working papers on important medium to long-term economic and political developments and issues within the region. They draw on a wide range of data and information sources, including reports from Australia's diplomatic and trade missions in Asia.
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ACADEMIC RESOURCES
Library Resources
UCSD East Asia Collection
Bibliography of Asian Studies
* The Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains over 545,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
Beijing SuperStar Digital Library (No link available at this time)
* Scanned images of contemporary Chinese books
Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance
* The Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance is a consortium of academic libraries joined together to facilitate improved access to scholarly research materials throughout the Pacific Rim.
The Pacific Explorations Archive
* The Pacific Explorations Archive is a collaborative project of the Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance. The Archive is a step toward a virtual collection created dynamically from distributed sources. The immediate value is as a test bed for cooperatively creating and delivering digital library resources.
Internet Guide for Chinese Studies
East Asia WWW Virtual Library
Internet Chinese Studies Electronic Journal
* Approximately 240 journals and magazines arranged by subject areas.
* Provides links to online Chinese periodical index sites in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Chinese Military Power
* Full-text online analysis and resources about Chinese military policy & capabilities.
* Bibliography of key readings and links to online databases and to leading area specialists and research sites.
Internet Chinese Legal Research Center
* Created by Wei Luo. Provides links to Chinese legal resources on the Internet, legal research guides and other information related to Chinese legal research. Covers China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Asia Pacific: Perspectives
* A peer-reviewed electronic journal published once a year in April. It welcomes submissions from all fields of the social sciences and the humanities with relevance to the Asia Pacific region
Pacific Rim Report
* The Center for the Pacific Rim's occasional papers series
Pacific Journalism Review
Pacific Journalism Review, founded at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1994, is a peer-reviewed journal covering media issues and communication in the South Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Australia and New Zealand. It is now published by the School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, and has links with the University of the South Pacific.
RGE Monitor: Nouriel Roubini's Global Macroeconomic and Financial Policy Site
* Portal for news, research, data, and links on a variety of macroeconomic topics
* Includes information on the Asian Financial Crisis, and “economic miracle”
DevNews Media Center
* World Bank center for economic development related news
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University Programs
ACCESS: the Database of Japanese Universities by Yamasa Multimedia Studio
* Provides basic information on entrance examinations for foreign students who wish to enter Japanese universities and graduate schools. Search by school name, location, faculty listings, and departmental listings are available.
Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg, Germany
* Offers (bi-lingual) "information about the institute, its publications, staff, archive and library plus links to all universitity departments and other academic institutions involved in Asian studies in the Federal Republic of Germany."
East Asian Studies Center (Indiana University)
University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim
* The Center's research efforts bear fruit in the form of two publications: the Pacific Rim Report series of occasional papers in print and online, and the new, peer-reviewed, online-only journal, Asia Pacific: Perspectives.
Harvard China Forum
* “Harvard China Forum is a graduate student organization based at Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. By comprehensively and objectively introducing the nature and context of the transformation currently occurring in Greater China, the HCR seeks to enhance mutual understanding and cooperation between Greater China and the rest of the world, and to help accelerate the integration of this region into the international arena.”
* Publishes The Harvard China Review (HCR) which “covers issues pertinent to the historical transformations occurring in Greater China. It examines the prospects and difficulties confronted by the region as China develops rapidly into an open market economy.”
The SMERU Institute
* SMERU is an independent institution for research and policy studies which provides accurate and timely information and objective analysis, professionally and proactively, on various socio-economic and poverty issues which are considered most urgent and relevant for the people of Indonesia.
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Scholarly organizations
Association of Chinese Political Studies (ACPS)
* Formerly Chinese Scholars of Political Science and International Studies, is a non-profit academic organization. ACPS was founded in 1986 by a group of Chinese scholars and students of political science and international relations in the U.S. to promote academic exchange among Chinese scholars and American scholars of China studies. In 1995, the organization changed its name to Association of Chinese Political Studies to allow non-ethnic Chinese to become members so that the organization is for all who study Chinese politics. ACPS is a related organization of the American Political Science Association and the International Studies Association. It sponsors panels in APSA's annual meetings. ACPS holds an annual conference on China each year.
The Chinese Association of Political Science
* Includes English-language version
The Association for Asian Studies
* The largest society of its kind in the world—is a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia. It seeks through publications, meetings, and seminars to facilitate contact and an exchange of information among scholars to increase their understanding of East, South, and Southeast Asia. It counts among its members scholars, business people, diplomats, journalists, and interested lay persons.
The Japanese Studies Association of Australia
* The JSAA is the professional association for those in Australia who teach, research or study Japan. The Association was established in 1978, and membership is open to Japanese Studies practitioners in Australia or overseas.
Japanese Studies Network Forum
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INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
* Press releases, activities, publications, APEC-related web sites, meetings, member economies, advisory groups, meetings, committees, free downloads.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
* Information on political and security cooperation, as well as meetings, conferences, economic cooperation, trade statistics, functional cooperation, dialogue relations, summits, Secretary General's statements, publications, calendar, country profiles and photo gallery.
Asian Development Bank
* Recent ADB social, economic, and agricultural projects by country ADB Business Opportunities, a monthly periodical with business procurement notices Press releases, catalog of publications, environmental impact assessments
The International Finance Corporation
* Part of the World Bank Group
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
* An international organization, SPC works in partnership with its members, other organizations and donors to deliver priority work programs to member countries and territories.
* Aims to develop the technical, professional, scientific, research, planning and management capability of Pacific Island people and directly provide information and advice, to enable them to make informed decisions about their future development and well-being.
* SPC is the only bilingual (English/French) regional organization covering all 22 countries and territories of the Pacific.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
· Description of the agencies activities in economics, population, social issues, statistics, and transportation
· Newsletters and the text of abstracts of the Asian-Pacific Population Journal beginning 1994
· Summary statistical data for each country includes demographics, vital statistics, protein consumption, government finance, landuse, employment, transportation, literacy
International Labor Organization (ILO) Regional Office for Asia-Pacific
UN Development Program’s Human Development Reports on Asia-Pacific Region
World Bank Page on Social Policy and Governance in the East Asia and Pacific Region
* Contains links to World Bank research, news, and events related to development in East Asia
Asia Regional Integration Center
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NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGOs)
The Chinese Finance Association
* "A non-profit organization aimed at facilitating the exchange of ideas, knowledge and information on education, research and practice in finance and related areas between the US and China."
Directory of East Asian NGOs
* Searchable by country
Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP)
* CSCAP is a non-governmental (second track) process for dialogue on security issues in Asia Pacific.
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STATISTICS
Asian Development Bank Statistics
P R I S M (Pacific Regional Information SysteM)
Wanfang Data (ChinaInfo)
* Provides information/data on science & technology as well as business & trade.
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INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES
Google (Chinese, Simplified)
Google (Chinese, Traditional)
Sohu.com (China)
Yahoo! China
Yahoo! Taiwan
Yahoo! Hong Kong
Yam.com (Taiwan)
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(Prepared by Kelly Wurtz for IRGN 400: International Relations of the Pacific, Professor Miles Kahler)
