With “New Challenges to Asia Pacific Security” as the main theme, the conference lasted three days, with the first day devoted to Regional Security Implications of the Global Financial Crisis. Day two of the conference addressed regional security architecture, naval build up in the Asia Pacific, and disarmaments and arms control. Throughout the conference, distinguished scholars and governm…
The Asia Pacific Security Outlook seeks to contribute to this search by monitoring perceptions of threats to national security, national defense doctrines and issues, and national contributions to regional and global security. It differs from other current annual security overviews in that it has been developed on the basis of background papers prepared by analysts from the region itself, each …