Japan's FY 2005 National Defense Program Outline: New Concepts, Old Compromises. Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Volume 4, Number 3, March 2005.

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fouse
Keyword(s):  
Security Studies ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
National Defense ◽  
New Concepts

Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Annual Report 2008

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
ASIA-PACIFIC CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Asia Pacific

The Arms Race, Played by SDP

1982 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 8-9
Author(s):  
Elliott Frauenglass ◽  
Clyde D. McKee ◽  
Charles C. Naef
Keyword(s):  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
Defense Spending ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
National Defense ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Media ◽  
Participatory Exercise ◽  
Defense Budgets

Interest in the arms race has been growing in recent years as shown by coverage in the media and in political campaigns. Many students coming to class are already preconditioned either for or against increased defense spending. This participatory exercise allows them to test their ideas, and it helps make their minds more receptive to new concepts being explored in the class, such as: Is detente in the best interests of the Unted States? Should a new SALT Treaty be negotiated? What is the best ratio of expenditures for domestic programs and national defense?SDB stands for Secret Defense Budgets. In the SDB exercise, or game as it is called, the class is divided into groups of two students sitting next to each other.

scholarly journals Terrorism, Geopolitics, and Multinational Security Cooperation in Central Asia

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-151
Author(s):  
Rouben Azizian ◽  
Elizabeth Van Wie Davis
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Security Cooperation ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Religious Extremism ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
The World

On 22-24 February 2006, the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies(APCSS) held this conference on the complex security environment ofCentral Asia as the region continues to struggle with the phenomena of terrorismand religious extremism, poverty and corruption, political instabilityand authoritarian governance, as well as great power (China, Russia, and theUnited States) suspicion and rivalry. These challenges are not uniquelyCentral Asian, but the region seems to be particularly vulnerable to them asits young nations are undergoing a significant political, social, and economictransformation. How the region copes with these issues will extend importantlessons to the world as a whole.This forum examined the trilemma posed for Central Asia and thebroader Asia-Pacific region. First, for the war on terror in the region to besuccessful, it must evolve into well-implemented stabilization and reconstructionefforts as well as dramatic improvements in governance andhuman rights. Second, no country on its own can alter the situation inCentral Asia, for such an effort requires cooperation between all of the majorpowers and stakeholders in the region (India, Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey).The magnitude of the problem of terrorism, which affects most if not allcountries in the region, should preclude another variation of the Great Game.Finally, while the number of regional organizations and security forums inCentral Asia has been growing, the low degree of coordination among themtriggers counterproductive rivalries and plays into the hands of extremistelements. Since terror knows no borders, what happens in Central Asia significantlyimpacts developments elsewhere.Although the counterterrorist effort in Central Asia has successfullymarginalized the Taliban and al-Qaeda, the localization of the terrorist threatmeans that new autonomous extremist cells continue to emerge in CentralAsia. The sources of proliferation of radical Islam can be found in socioeconomicdeprivation, widespread corruption, and political ...

scholarly journals Skills Development in The Asia-Pacific Maritime World: A Comparative Study of Vocational Education in Malaysia and Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33
Author(s):  
Ramlee Mustapha
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Technical And Vocational Education ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Capital Development ◽  
The Impact

This region of Southeast Asia shares more social and cultural ties with other Austronesian peoples in the Pacific than with the peoples of mainland Southeast Asia. Contemporarily, Asia Pacific is still the fastest growing economic region in the world despite economic turbulence and uncertainties in recent years due to the global economic slow-down.  As one of centres of economic power, the region could hardly remain immune to the globalizing impact of economic and technological change. The purpose of this study was to explore the development of Technical and Vocational education in Malaysia and Indonesia by analyzing the history, policies, and its direction. In Malaya, the Technical and Vocational education prior to independence had projected the images of “colonial apprenticeship” with the emphasis on manual agricultural and crafts, which aimed at training the Malay students to fill positions in the Railway department under the Federated Malay States. After independence, Technical and Vocational education in Malaysia continued to grow, and some reforms have been implemented to improve the image of Technical and Vocational education itself.  In Indonesia, a similar development occurred but the difference is in terms of Technical and Vocational education funding at the secondary level where there are many private Technical and Vocational schools as compared to Malaysia.  There are new concepts introduced in Technical and Vocational education, such as the Tech-Prep, Time Sector Privatization and Vocational Colleges in Malaysia and Link and Match, Dual System, Product-based Curriculum, and Total Performance Management (TPM) in Indonesia, but the concepts are yet to be carried out optimally due of some constraints.  The implications of this study are to identify the human capital development in the maritime Archipelago countries from the perspectives of the competitiveness and the preparation for dealing with the impact of globalization.

Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Annual Report 2010

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Markovinovic ◽  
Mike Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Asia Pacific

GEOSTRATEGY OF BITUNG PORT AREA ON INDONESIA'S MARITIME SECURITY PERSPECTIVE (STUDY ON THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION IN 2018-2019)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 287
Author(s):  
Supartono Supartono ◽  
Purwanto Purwanto ◽  
M. Harry Riana Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Maritime Security ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
The North ◽  
North Sulawesi ◽  
Port Area

<p><em>The Port of Bitung area has a number of potentials that can impact the structure of national security and national defense, because it has a strategic concept for the Indo-Pacific Region. The Bitung Port area as an international hub port, stated in the Minister of Transportation Decree Number 54 of 2002 concerning the Implementation of Sea Ports. The method in this study used a qualitative descriptive approach and data analysis techniques used an interactive of model analysis. This study analyzes the Geostrategy concept for the Port of Bitung Region as part of a national security strategy to strengthen national defense based on the maritime security side and the economic implications of the Indo-Pacific Region. The results show that in general the analysis of the strategy of the </em><em>B</em><em>itung port area in maritime security studies for national national security and national defense shows several things: 1) the strategic conditions of the Bitung Port area need to be supported by strategic and integrated policies between the Central government and the North Sulawesi Province Bitung City; 2) the development of special economic zones (KEK) requires accelerated implementation of policies in a sustainable manner with full support from the budget side, this is to strengthen the territorial basis in the geostrategic concept; and 3) there needs to be an approach towards the community in supporting the realization of the strategic area of </em><em></em><em>Bitung City, North Sulawesi. The fulfillment of these requirements has made the Bitung Port area capable of supporting geostrategy through strategic maritime security studies and economic implications, because it is located in the Indo-Pacific Region as a center for political and economic defense so as to strengthen national security and national defense.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords</em></strong><em>: geostrategy, port area, Bitung Harbor, Indo-Pacific region<strong></strong></em></p>

Special Issue on Latest Developments in Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 841-842
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Kawakami ◽  
Aki-Hiro Sato ◽  
Toshihiro Hiraoka
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Fuzzy Logic Systems ◽  
Evolutionary Systems ◽  
Logic Systems ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This issue presents papers from the 16th annual Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems held in Kyoto, Japan, on December 12-14, 2012. Kyoto is an ancient capital whose traditions have matured through the ages, featuring rich cultural and artisanal opportunities. The symposium brings together researchers from Asian Pacific Rim nations who are working in the fields of intelligent systems and evolutionary computation. Here they have a rare chance to exchange ideas, present their latest results and discuss possible collaboration. In order to encourage in-depth technical discourse, the number of participants is limited to about 40. The symposium allows ample time for discussions in addition to paper presentations. We focus on papers related to recent developments in intelligent and evolutionary systems. This issue features 11 interesting and informative papers. 1. Improvement of Eye Gesture Interface System 2. Modelling and Simulation of Road Traffic Behaviour: Artificial Drivers with Personality and Emotions 3. User-Friendly Simulator for Open Modeling by Hierarchical Management 4. On the Impact of Path Redundancy Awareness in Evolutionary P2P Networking 5. Influence of Field Structure on the Multi-Agent Coverage Algorithm on Unknown Fields 6. Understanding Geographic Attentions of Crowd from Photographing Information 7. Development of Ghost Controller for Ms Pac-Man Versus Ghost Team with Grammatical Evolution 8. Construction of Molecular Learning Network 9. Fractal-Based Analysis for the Energy Consumption Efficiency of Biological Networks 10. Designing Internal Reward of Reinforcement Learning Agents in Multi-Step Dilemma Problem 11. Cooperative Transport by a Swarm Robotic System Based on CMA-NeuroES Approach We sincerely thank all of the participants, committee members, and plenary speakers for their invaluable contributions to this symposium. Also deserving of thanks are members of the organization: Dr. Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy), Dr. Hussein A. Abbass (University of New South Wales), Dr. Shu-Heng Chen (National Chengchi University), Dr. Mitsuo Gen (Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute), Dr. Hiroshi Kawakami (Kyoto University), Dr. Aki-Hiro Sato (Kyoto University), Dr. Hidenori Kawamura (Hokkaido University), Dr. Bob McKay (Seoul National University), Dr. Kazuhiro Ohkura (Hiroshima University), and Dr. Tomohiro Shirakawa (National Defense Academy), and program committees: Dr. Dror Kenett (Tel Aviv University), Dr. Tobias Preis (Johannes Gutenberg University), Dr. Yasushi Kambayashi (Nippon Institute of Technology), Dr. Hiroshi Sato (National Defense Academy), Dr. Sachiyo Arai (Chiba University), Dr. Saori Iwanaga (Japan Coast Guard Academy), Dr. Noman Nasimul (The University of Tokyo), Dr. Hisashi Handa (Okayama University), Dr. Mengchun Xie (Wakayama National College of Technology), Dr. Masao Kubo (National Defense Academy of Japan), Dr. Keiki Takadama (The University of Electro-Communications), Dr. Eisuke Kita (Nagoya University), Dr. Hitoshi Iba (The University of Tokyo), Dr. Yusuke Nojima (Osaka Prefecture University), Dr. Zdzislaw Burda (Jagiellonian University), and Dr. Keiji Suzuki (Hokkaido University). Meetings of creative minds such as those taking part in this symposium are sure to encourage new creative minds. Symposium speakers include Dr. Sung-Bae Cho of Yonsei University, Korea, Dr. Mitsuo Gen of the Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute in Japan, and Dr. Jun Wang of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

New Economic Statecraft: Industrial Policy in an Era of Strategic Competition

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (02) ◽  
pp. 2040006 ◽  
Author(s):  
VINOD K. AGGARWAL ◽  
ANDREW W. REDDIE
Keyword(s):  
International Political Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Gray Zone ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Strategic Competition ◽  
Economic Statecraft

The 2018 U.S. National Defense Strategy notes that the United States faces “an increasingly complex global security environment, characterized by overt challenges to the free and open international order and the re-emergence of long-term, strategic competition between nations.” In the ensuing months, much has been made of the security-related aspects of this return to great power competition — including Donald Trump’s role in the decline of the existing arms control architecture, responses to Russia’s annexation of Ukraine, and China’s use of subconventional — or “gray zone” — military operations in the South China Sea. What this analysis tends to miss, however, are the economic dimensions of strategic competition. To address the question of how insights from international political economy and security studies can be usefully combined to examine strategic competition, we examine how economic statecraft increasingly takes the form of economic policy beyond sanctions regimes. We argue that economic statecraft has become an increasingly central aspect of geostrategic consideration and consider how economic statecraft is being transformed in the current era.

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