Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.
Uncommon Alliance for the Common Good: New
Strategies for U.S.-Japan Foreign Policy Cooperation in Asia (Year 1)
Project Director: James Schoff,
Senior Associate Asia Program
$90,000
This project will look into new and creative
ways to “strengthen” the US-Japan alliance outside of “Security
alliance strengthening” in the coming century.
Peace
Winds America, Seattle, WA
2013-2015 Japan-U.S.-Philippines Civil-Military
Disaster Preparedness Initiative (Year 2)
Project Director: Charles Aanenson,
Chief Executive Officer
$42,212
The goal of this project is to strengthen
trilateral cooperation and coordination among Japan, the US, and the
Philippines as they prepare for and respond to major natural disasters. Peace
Winds America (PWA) aims to use the rubric of humanitarian assistance and
disaster relief (HA/DR) to use HA/DR as a
mechanism for closer civil-military alliance interaction.
University
of Hawaii,
Honolulu, HI
Trade, Growth, and Economic Inequality in the
Asia Pacific Region (Year 1)
Project Director: Theresa Greaney, Associate
Professor
$76,159
The objectives of this project are to provide
new insights into the linkages between international trade and investment,
economic growth, and economic inequality in the Asia-Pacific region, to provide
improved guidance to policymakers who influence these linkages, and to create
new collaborative networks among researchers in the region who are interested
in and influential on these topics.
University
of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Monetary Politics: Central Bank Independence,
Deflation and Bank of Japan (Year 1)
Project Director: Saori Katada,
Associate Professor
$63,433
This project seeks to improve our understanding
of how monetary policy choices are made, develop policy ideas for improving
monetary governance, and disseminate these findings through a monograph and
conference presentations.