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1. ASI Research Update: EAI on the Effect of Trade of East Asian Security Alliances

   A new East Asia Institute Working Paper questions whether “increasing economic interdependence markedly strengthens East Asian security alliances.” — posted on March 1, 2010

2. ASI Research Update: India-ASEAN FTA Improves Image Abroad, Raises Concerns at Home

   A new Policy Commentary from the George Washington University’s Rising Power Initiative finds that the entry into force of India’s Free Trade Agreement with Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand has improved India’s image in Southeast Asia, but has raised concerns at home about the agreement’s effect on farmers. — posted on February 24, 2010

3. ASI Research Update: EAI Issue Briefing on Trade as an Instrument of South Korean Foreign Policy

   In a new East Asia Institute Issue Briefing, “Embracing Asia, South Korea Style,” Min Gyo Koo of Yonsei University urges South Korea to use preferential trade agreements to build its ties to other Asian nations. — posted on November 18, 2009

4. ASI Research Update: EAI Working Paper on Regional Financial Cooperation

   In his new report “Regional Financial Solidarity without the United States: Contested Neoliberalism in East Asia,” Yong Wook Lee of Korea University studies the construction of East Asian financial regionalism since 1997, and outlines some difficult questions for U.S. policy-makers. — posted on October 20, 2009

5. ASI Research Update: Northeast Asian Security Cooperation

   Tokyo University, University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Yonsei University held two discussions this summer on the “Economic-Security Nexus in Northeast Asia” and “Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Architecture and Beyond.” — posted on August 5, 2009