By Ernie Bower, Senior Adviser & Director, Southeast Asia Program, CSIS That tireless prowler of Foggy Bottom, Josh Rogin, provided a sneak peek at the Obama Administration’s Quadrennial Development & Diplomacy Review (QDDR) this morning on his blog. The plan, which is…

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Information Dissemination, a popular maritime security blog, notes the Russian agreement to help rebuild the port at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam, and has some ideas about how this plays into the regional security dynamic and U.S. strategy. We talked…

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By Ernie Bower, Senior Adviser & Director, Southeast Asia Program, CSIS President Obama’s second trip to Asia as President was important, well-timed and successful in terms of political and security issues. However, on the issues prioritized by Asian partners and…

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By Ernie Bower, Senior Adviser & Director, Southeast Asia Program, CSIS Should we read anything into your missing the APEC meeting in Japan, Mrs. Clinton? The answer is probably not. The Secretary of State wrapped up her Odyessian tour of…

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By Nicholas Szechenyi, Deputy Director and Fellow, Japan Chair, CSIS In an address to the Diet on October 1 Prime Minister Naoto Kan called for an “active foreign policy” and urged his fellow citizens to “be bold enough to open…

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By Ernie Bower, Senior Adviser & Director, Southeast Asia Program, CSIS The Obama Administration deserves highest marks for reinvigorating the U.S. focus on Asia. Trips by the President and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been well prepared and executed,…

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kacZTEEZkNI&w=590&h=356] By Aaron L. Connelly President Obama’s address at the University of Indonesia was enthusiastically received by the crowd of nearly 7,000 there. Friends in the audience told me the feeling was reminiscent of a rock concert rather than a…

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Sunrise in Yangon By Ernie Bower, CSIS Senior Adviser and Director, Southeast Asia Program Lex Rieffel’s post last week on Brookings’ website, “Looking Ahead From Burma’s November 7 Election,” does an excellent job of laying out the current realities of…

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In the last twelve hours, international airlines have canceled all flights into and out of Jakarta’s airports. The airlines are concerned about the effects of the volcanic ash from the erupting volcano Mt. Merapi, 450 km to the east. Earlier…

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A Royal New Zealand Air Force P3K Orion in Antarctica, January 2006 By Peko Setboonsarng, Research Intern, CSIS Southeast Asia Program As anti-tax deficit hawks from the Tea-Party influenced Republican party tussle over office space on Capitol Hill, the United…

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