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Chung-in Moon and David Plott |
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Dear Reader, |
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Bird’s Eye View:
Cities in East and Southeast Asia |
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From Tokyo and Shanghai to Jakarta and Phnom Penh, city life in Asia takes many forms in a period of tremendous growth and accelerating urbanization. |
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| Creating an Urban Movement
for Sustainable Living By Shobhakar Dhakal |
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The breakneck pace of urbanization in Asia is putting increasing strains on available resources, pushing sustainability to the top of the list of priorities for cities. |
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| City Leadership at the Heart
of the Global Challenge By Paul A. Oliver |
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Many of the world’s greatest challenges, from environmental degradation to widening income gaps, are increasingly coming to be defined as urban challenges. |
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Changing the Culture of City Hall:
Seoul Mayor Se-hoon Oh Interview by David Plott |
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Seoul Mayor Se-hoon Oh talks with Global Asia about changing the culture of city government and what he hopes to achieve. For the Full Interview Transcript with Seoul Mayor For the Korean version of this interview transcript, |
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| Talk from the Top: Mayors Speak Out |
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The Mayors of Tianjin, Harbin and London describe how they plan to keep their cities attractive, competitive and sustainable. |
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| Seen from the Street:
Manila and Bangkok
By A. Lin Neumann and Kavi Chongkittavorn |
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Two veteran journalists take stock of two Asian cities often maligned for their chaotic traffic and urban mess, but that continue to charm and improve. |
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| Behold the Countryside:
The Urban/Rural Divide By Tay Kheng Soon |
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The tendency to view the urban and the rural as two spaces, not one, is a fundamental mistake. It’s time to rethink our relationship to the countryside. |
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| The Debate: Obama’s Foreign Policy Versus McCain’s |
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| Barack Obama and Asia By Donald G. Gross |
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We can expect an Obama administration to adopt new policies that strengthen existing US alliances in Asia, while also supporting multilateral approaches. |
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| John McCain and Asia By Michael J. Green |
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Throughout more than two decades of service in the US Congress, John McCain has been a consistent and principled voice on US policy towards Asia. |
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| Asia Matters for America By Satu Limaye |
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A project by the East-West Center reveals the extraordinary extent to which business with Asia has reached deep into the American landscape and American lives. |
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| NATO and Asia: An Emerging Relationship By W. Bruce Weinrod |
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NATO, the bedrock of Western security during the Cold War, is beginning to explore relations with Asia. What would closer ties mean to both sides? |
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| Change at Last in Malaysia By Karim Raslan |
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For decades, the idea that any party other than UMNO would dominate Malaysian politics was unthinkable. That is fast changing. |
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| Australia’s Asia Dilemma By Purnendra Jain |
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When Kevin Rudd was elected Australian prime minister in November 2007, pundits predicted a period of rosy relations with Asia. That hasn’t happened. |
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| Analog Government, Digital Citizens By Kyung Bae Min |
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When thousands of protestors poured onto the streets of Seoul to protest plans to renew imports of US beef, more than a backlash against President Lee Myung-bak was at work. |
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| Book Review | ||
| Pax Asiatica: The Search for a
New Regional Order Reviewed by David Plott |
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How the future world order is shaped,especially in Asia, could spell the difference between continuing peace and prosperity and a new era of conflict and chaos. |
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| Varieties of Fundamentalist Experience Reviewed By Sadanand Dhume |
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One of the most striking aspects of the War on Terrorism is the lack of consensus on exactly with whom the West is at war, and what it must do to bring the conflict to an end. |
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