Asia Policy 7 (January 2009)

This issue of NBR’s journal Asia Policy features a roundtable of 19 experts from Asia Policy’s editorial board on what the new administration needs to know about Asia. The issue includes two articles on North Korea, a double book review roundtable on nuclear proliferation and security in Asia, and the Policymaker’s Library, which presents policy-focused summaries of select books published in 2008.

Table of Contents

Special Roundtables
Advising the New U.S. President

Articles
The (Non-) Impact of UN Sanctions on North Korea
Marcus Noland

North Korea and Illegal Narcotics: Smoke but No Fire?
Benjamin J. Sovacool

Book Review Roundtable
Etel Solingen's Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East/ Muthiah Alagappa’s The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia
Christopher A. Ford, Jing-dong Yuan, Deepti Choubrey, Jacques E.C. Hymans, Etel Solingen and Muthiah Alagappa

Policymaker’s Library
Policymaker’s Library