Commentary
Across the Middle East and North Africa, climate stress interacts with economic fragility, governance failures, social marginalization, and conflict.
Camille Ammoun
Book
Strategic Asia 2010-11: Asia's Rising Power and America's Continued Purpose
This volume provides an integrated perspective on the major issues that influence stability in Strategic Asia. Leading experts examine Asia’s performance in nine key functional areas to provide a continent-wide net assessment of the core trends and issues affecting the region.
Published on Sep 29, 2010
Source: The National Bureau of Asian Research
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About the Editors:
Ashley J. Tellis, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Research Director of the Strategic Asia Program at NBR, served in the U.S. Department of State as senior adviser to the Undersecretary of State of Public Affairs, and previously as senior adviser to the Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in India. He also served on the National Security Council Staff as special assistant to the President and senior director for Strategic Planning and Southwest Asia. He is the author of India’s Emerging Nuclear Posture (2001) and co-author of Interpreting China’s Grand Strategy: Past, Present, and Future (2000), as well as the co-editor of seven most recent volumes of Strategic Asia, published by NBR.
Andrew Marble is the Editor at the National Bureau of Asian Research.
Travis Tanner is the Senior Project Director and Director of the Pyle Center for Northeast Asian Studies at the National Bureau of Asian Research.
About the Authors
Ashley J. Tellis
Former Senior Fellow
Ashley J. Tellis was a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Andrew Marble
NBR
Travis Tanner
NBR
South AsiaEast AsiaSoutheast AsiaEconomyTradeClimate ChangeSecurityMilitaryForeign PolicyNuclear Policy
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