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
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
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
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