Research Agenda

Research Agenda


The National Asia Research Program seeks to expand and deepen U.S. understanding of Asia through the different but complementary perspectives of the government and academic communities. The research topics chosen by NARP fellows below are illustrative of the pressing policy issues identified by NBR, NDU, and the Advisory Council to the NARP in their conversations with policymakers. NARP fellows presented their tentative research findings during the Asia Policy Assembly in June and will eventually publish their research findings in peer-reviewed academic and policy journals.

Red Flags: How Economic Stagnation Will Affect Chinese Security Policy
Michael Beckley

Chinese Government Lobbying in the United States: Sources, Characteristics, Effects
Erin Carter

Rolling Back the State: Comparing the Experience of Gas Market Liberalization East and Southeast Asia
Jeanne Choi

Understanding Past Failures to Launch in the U.S.-India Defense Relationship
Christopher Clary

Will They Stay or Will They Go: Why Allies Choose to Anchor, Augment, Autonomize, or Accommodate
Zachary Cooper

Responding to the Rise of China in the Global Commons: Japan’s Evolving Approach to Outer Space, Cyberspace, and the High Seas
Kristi Govella

The Global Diffusion of China’s Public Security Technology
Sheena Greitens

Building the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road: Ports, Industrial Clusters, and Exporting the China Model of Development
April Herlevi

Village Elections and the Fate of Grassroots Democracy in Xi Jinping’s China
Joshua Hill

Levers of Power: Russia-China Nuclear Power Cooperation
Emily Holland

China’s Strategic Strongpoints: Overseas Ports and Maritime Power
Isaac Kardon

Whither a Networked Security Architecture? Understanding Overlapping U.S.-Indian Interests, Alignments, and Implications for the Quad and the Indo-Pacific
Sameer Lalwani

Russia’s Asian Pivot and the Future of the Russia-China Relationship
Christopher Miller

Economic Dimensions of the United States’ Emerging China Strategy
William Norris

Exporting Nuclear Norms: Japan and South Korea in the International Nuclear Energy Market
James Platte

CoCom 2.0? Controls on U.S. Technology Transfer to China
Crystal Pryor

Reports of Rising Police-Society Conflict in China
Suzanne Scoggins

Threats, Alliances, and Electorates: The Politics of Defense Policy in Taiwan
Kharis Templeman

Securing U.S. Independence from China in Critical Rare Earth Minerals
Kristin Vekasi

Shoulder-to-Shoulder: Defense Diplomacy’s Role in Sustaining the U.S.-Philippine Alliance
Gregory Winger