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China's rise and stepped-up involvement in Southeast Asia have
prompted a blend of anticipation and unease among its smaller
neighbors. The stunning growth of China has yanked up the region's
economies, but its militarization of the South China Sea and dam
building on the Mekong River has nations wary about Beijing's
outsized ambitions. Southeast Asians long felt relatively secure,
relying on the United States as a security hedge, but that
confidence began to slip after the Trump administration launched a
trade war with China and questioned the usefulness of traditional
alliances. This compelling book provides a snapshot of ten
countries in Southeast Asia by exploring their diverse experiences
with China and how this impacts their perceptions of Beijing's
actions and its long-term political, economic, military, and "soft
power" goals in the region.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted
its sixth annual South China Sea conference in July 2016. The
conference provided four panels of highly respected experts from 10
countries with a first opportunity to assess the results of the UN
Convention on the Law of the Sea tribunal ruling and begin to
measure its impact. This report contains papers by 10 of the
panelists, providing a wide array of perspectives on the political,
legal, military, and environmental outlook for the South China Sea
in 2016.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted
its fifth annual South China Sea conference in July 2015. This
compilation features papers from some of the top experts in the
United States and Asia, who presented during the day's panels. Bill
Hayton, Bonnie Glaser, and Wu Shicun discuss recent developments in
the South China Sea; Pham Lan Dung and Tran Huu Duy Minh explore
legal issues surrounding the disputes; and Ian Storey, Patrick
Cronin, Renato Cruz de Castro, and Peter Jennings examine various
aspects of the military balance and regional order.
With elections in both the Philippines and the United States in
2016, the future of the alliance must be institutionalized to
ensure that it is not diminished by a change of leadership in
either country. A new Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement and
cooperation in the South China Sea are important components of the
new era of relations, but they are not and should not be the only
defining features of the alliance. Given the long history of
U.S.-Philippine relations, the alliance must be based on more
robust cooperation across the spectrum of political, security,
economic, and sociocultural relations. Security concerns provide an
acute impetus for leaders to put more energy into the relationship,
but its sustainability will require a more comprehensive focus.
Building on a careful analysis of Southeast Asia's recent history,
politics, economics, and place within the Asia Pacific, this report
looks forward two decades to anticipate the development of trends
in the region and how they will impact the U.S.-Japan alliance. How
will Southeast Asian states come to grips with the political and
economic rise of China? How will they modernize their military
forces and security relationships, and what role can the United
States and Japan play? How will they manage their disputes in the
South China Sea, and how will they pursue greater regional
integration? These questions will prove critical in understanding
Southeast Asia's role in the Asia Pacific, and in the U.S.-Japan
alliance, in the decades ahead.
The South China Sea is arguably one of the world's most dangerous
regions, with conflicting diplomatic, legal, and security claims by
major and mid-level powers. To assess these disputes, CSIS brought
together an international group of experts-from Australia, Canada,
China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, the United
Kingdom, the United States, and Vietnam. This volume gathers these
experts' analyses to provide a diverse and wide-ranging set of
perspectives on the region and to explore possibilities for future
cooperation.
A New Era of U.S.-Vietnam Relations examines the history of the
relationship and offers concrete recommendations for policymakers
in both countries to deepen cooperation across each major area of
the relationship: political and security ties, trade and economic
linkages, and people-to-people connections.
A U.S.-Indonesia Partnership for 2020 explores avenues to boost
cooperation in all three of these pillars. Political and security
relations between the United States and Indonesia have grown more
robust in recent years. Trade and economic relations, while
growing, remain contentious. This study assesses progress on these
two pillars, along with the under-resourced field of
people-to-people collaboration, and offers recommendations to take
the partnership to the next level in each area.
Potential sales of billions of dollars of energy equipment produced
by U.S. companies are at stake in the major economies of the
region. They are expected to import as much as $16 billion worth of
energy products over the next few years to power their economic
growth. But unless the United States launches new initiatives to
snare sizable shares of this investment, U.S. companies are
unlikely to be major players in all this trade.
Powerful Professionals addresses the dramatic shifts in the role of
professionals working in organizations. The authors present
practical, down-to-earth advice to support modern professionals'
view of themselves and their ways of working.
Powerful Professionals is written for professionals, human
resources professionals - all professionals whose expert services
are used by clients or organizations but who do not have direct
control. A 'how-to' book full of checklists, assessments, models,
examples, worksheets, etc., it is specifically tailored to assist
professionals establish more leveraged and influential roles.
Powerful Professionals contains field-tested skills based on over
900 workshops worldwide in English, French, German and Spanish with
over 10,000 professionals. The authors know of what they speak.
They have experience working with professionals in hundreds of
organizations worldwide. They have amassed a database of over
50,000 client feedback surveys on what is valued by the users of
professional services - the largest survey database of its kind in
the world on what clients/customers view as high performance.
Professional experts are well trained in their technological
fields, but generally often woefully untrained and unskilled in
delivery of that expertise. This book does not teach technical
skills, rather it presents the skills that transcend any brand of
expertise - processes for successful delivery of professional
expertise. Organizations need these skills to succeed.
Professionals need these skills to enhance their own work
satisfaction. The skills and models of Powerful Professionals will
ensure that professionals get their expertise used and valued
byorganizations and clients alike.
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