This conference will consist of back-to-back sessions in which presenters and panelists will analyze trade and investment trends in East Asia and discuss the evolution of East Asian economic institutions, including APEC, the ASEAN Plus 3 process, and the East Asian Summit. These discussions will be based upon two chapters...

Efforts at integration in Asia often fail because they overlook the role of the United States.

The president was quick to embrace the Keystone delay to 2013, as it will spare him the need to either approve the pipeline, infuriating environmentalists, or kill it, infuriating everyone else. Whether one views such a move as cowardly or as pragmatic, it’s indisputably foolish.

Commentators tend to assume that the Japanese constitution's strict constraints on military activity form an insurmountable barrier to vigorous defensive cooperation. However, three upcoming events show that Tokyo can play a greater security role in the region without having to revise the constitution.

Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama's credibility in Washington is shot, and he has only himself to blame.

President Barack Obama has a chance to revitalize his Asia policy next week by revitalizing George Bush's freedom and growth agenda.

Two questions face a Washington focused on cutting budgets and stressed after a decade of combat in the Middle East. First, do we have the will to succeed in the Indo-Pacific? And second, do we have the means to continue to lead?

The US and Japan, as the world's biggest economies, have a strong interest in setting the pace for global standards in any regional consolidation.