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December 24, 1999

    U.S. Arrogance and Incompetence at WTO--a Lethal Mix: Lyuba Zarsky Reports from Seattle

    The drama of the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle was not only on the streets but also behind closed doors, reports Nautilus Co-Director Lyuba Zarsky. As a member of the U.S. delegation, Zarsky participated both in briefings by U.S. trade officials and in NGO activities. Both the protests and the chaos of the trade talks, she argues here, reveal deep-seated problems of arrogance and incompetence in the making of U.S. trade policy.

    Go to report ...

     

    John Merck Fund Makes Grant to Peace and Security Program

    The John Merck Fund in Boston granted $40,000 to the Nautilus Institute to support the work of the Peace and Security Program in promoting nuclear non-proliferation in the East Asian region. The grant will support research and analysis, networking, and development of partners in the region.

    Go to Peace and Security Program ...

     

    Ken Wilkening Publishes Article on Culture & Environment in Northeast Asia
    December 24, 1999

    Nautilus Program Officer, Ken Wilkening, published "Culture and Japanese Citizen Influence on the Transboundary Air Pollution Issue in Northeast Asia" in Vol. 20, No. 4 of Political Psychology. The article outlines a general approach for analyzing the role of culture in international environmental policymaking, and applies the approach to the Japanese public's influence on policymaking on the acid rain issue in Northeast Asia.

     

December 17, 1999

    New Info Reveals Nuclear Weapons Were Stored on Japanese Islands

    New information from declassified documents reveal that the Japanese islands of Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima stored U.S. nuclear weapons during the 1950s and 1960s. The documents, which are described in the article "Where They Were: How Much Did Japan Know?" in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, fill important gaps in the historical record of Japan's role in supporting U.S. nuclear war plans. "Fabled as a 'non-nuclear nation,' Japan is beginning to look very different, given what we now know," the authors wrote. Some of the documents were provided to the authors by the Nautilus Institute's Nuclear Policy Project and are available on-line here. Other documents are available at the National Security Archive.

    Go to Nuclear Policy Project ...

     

    Experts Discuss Info Technology and Foreign Policy Decisionmaking

    The Nautilus Institute, in collaboration with the World Affairs Council, hosted a workshop on Friday, December 10, entitled "The Internet and International Systems: Information Technology and American Foreign Policy Decisionmaking." Key academic, government, non-governmental, and private-sector representatives examined how changes in information technologies are reshaping the capacity for non-governmental actors to influence governmental foreign policymaking processes.

    Some of the papers presented by the participants are available on this Web site.

    Go to workshop page ...

     

    Lyuba Zarsky Interviewed on WTO

    KTVU television news featured Nautilus Co-Director Lyuba Zarsky in an analysis of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle. Zarsky emphasized the protests stemmed from growing awareness that the "social order at a global level is deeply unjust" and that "the path of economic development that we are on is leading to ecological disaster." The news show aired on the 10 o'clock evening news on Sunday, December 5.

     

December 10, 1999

    Nautilus Co-Hosts Forum on Japan's Nuclear Accident and Energy Policy

    The Nautilus Institute, in collaboration with the Japan Society of Northern California, will host an evening forum "A Bright Future? Japan's Energy Policy and Regional Security Issues" on Tuesday, December 14 in San Francisco, California from 6:00 to 7:30 pm. The public is invited. Prompted by the recent nuclear accident in Japan, the forum speakers, Ken Wilkening of the Nautilus Institute and Masami Nakata of the University of California at Berkeley's Energy Resources Group, will discuss Japan's nuclear energy policy in relation to national and Northeast Asian regional energy and security issues.

    Register for forum ...

     

December 03, 1999

    Nautilus Co-Hosts Internet and International Systems Workshop

    The Nautilus Institute, in collaboration with the World Affairs Council, will host on December 10 in San Francisco, California a one-day workshop,"The Internet and International Systems: Information Technology and American Foreign Policy Decisionmaking." The workshop brings together key academic, government, non-governmental, and private-sector representatives to examine how changes in information communication technologies are reshaping the capacity for non-governmental actors to influence governmental foreign policymaking processes.

    Leading international experts, including Ronald Deibert of the University of Toronto and Saskia Sassen of the University of Chicago, will present papers on such topics as: "The Impact of the Internet on State to State Relations," "Information Technology and Organizational Form," and "NGOs in the Information Age."

    Go to workshop page ...

     

    U.S. Arrogance and Incompetence at WTO--a Lethal Mix: Lyuba Zarsky Reports from Seattle

    The drama of the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle is not only on the streets but also behind closed doors in the trade talks themselves, reports Nautilus Co-Director Lyuba Zarsky. As a member of the U.S. delegation, Zarsky participated both in briefings by U.S. trade officials and in NGO activities, including a panel on international investment rules and the environment. She also participated in Tuesday's protest march. Both the protests and the chaos of the trade talks, she argues in a report to be published next week here, reveal deep-seated problems of arrogance and incompetence in the making of U.S. trade policy.

    Go to report ...

     

November 24, 1999

    Lyuba Zarsky Participates in WTO Meetings in Seattle

    Nautilus Co-Director, Lyuba Zarsky, will speak on the panel "International Investment Rules, the WTO, and Environmental Protection" which is part of NGO activities held in conjunction with the Ministerial-level World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle during the week of November 29. The panel was organized by a coalition of U.S. environmental and other NGOs. Zarsky has written widely on international trade, investment and sustainable development, including a recent paper (html format) | (pdf format) for the OECD, and a policy brief for Foreign Policy in Focus. Zarsky is also part of the official U.S. delegation to the WTO, astatus extended because she serves on the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

     

    Tim Savage Attends International Consultation on Security in the South Asia and Asia-Pacific Regions

    Tim Savage, Nautilus Security Program Officer, attended the International Consultation on Security in the South Asia and Asia-Pacific Regions in Port Dickson, Malaysia on November 15-18. Sponsored by the Oxford Research Group and hosted by the Malaysian chapter of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the consultation discussed current security dilemmas throughout the region and developed policy recommendations. Topics addressed included the South China Sea, the Korean Peninsula, maritime activities in the region, Indian and Pakistani nuclear developments, and the security implications of religious/ethnic conflicts and environmental/resources issues.

     

November 19, 1999

    Voice of America Interviews Peter Hayes on Relations Between China and North Korea

    John Kamm of the Voice of America "Views and Perspectives" radio program interviewed Nautilus Co-Director Peter Hayes on the changing China-North Korea relationship. Also appearing on the program was Scott Snyder from the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. The 45-minute program will be broadcast on November 20, and can be heard on the Voice of America website in Mandarin Chinese. An English transcript is available on the Nautilus website.

     

    Two Join Nautilus Staff as
    Security Program Assistants

    The Nautilus Institute is pleased to announce that two new Security Program Assistants have joined our staff. David Stuligross coordinates our new South Asia Nuclear Dialogue network. Gee Gee Wong has primary responsibility for producing our NAPSNet Daily Report, and assists with the East Asia Nuclear Policy project. Biographical information may be found by clicking on their photos.

     

November 12, 1999

    Nautilus Hosts First Asia-Pacific Scenerios Workshop

    The Nautilus Institute hosts a workshop on "New Uncertainties, New Tools: Scenarios for the Future of Asia Pacific" in Hong Kong, Nov. 15-17, 1999. This is the first in a series of workshops under the Institute's Asia-Pacific Scenarios Project. It brings together key members of government, civil society, and business in the Asia-Pacific region to develop ten-year scenarios about political and economic development trajectories in the aftermath of the financial crisis. The project is funded by the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund and presented in partnership with the Global Business Network.

    Go to Scenarios Project....

     

    First Industry-NGO Roundtable on Corporate Accountability Softens Hard Issues Through Dialogue

    A roundtable entitled "Hard Issues, Innovative Approaches: Improving NGO-Industry Dialogue on Corporate Responsibility and Accountability" drew more than 55 participants from the high tech, apparel, and oil industries; environmental and human rights NGOs; labor, U.S. government, and academia on Nov. 9, 1999 at Stanford University. Intense discussion laid the foundation for developing credible social accountability mechanisms for corporations. The next step will be to divide into industry-specific working groups.

    The Roundtable was conducted in collaboration with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program at Stanford Law School. The California Global Corporate Accountability Project is a joint project of the Nautilus Institute, Human Rights Advocates, and the Natural Heritage Institute.

    Go to Corporate Accountability Project ...

     

    Peter Hayes Exposes American Media Myths about North Korea

    Nautilus Co-Director Peter Hayes outlined 23 myths about North Korea propagated by American media since 1992 at the "Covering Asia" seminar of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley on Nov. 3, 1999. Culled from news reports summarized in the Institute's Daily Report, the myths demonstrate that "with significant exceptions, most reporters are way behind the curve of actual U.S. policy and the state of play of negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington," Hayes said. "Often, it's what's left unsaid rather than what is spelled out that is crucial to undermining an effective public debate over U.S. policy toward North Korea." The seminar is directed by Professor Orville Schell, a leading American scholar on China.

     

    Kids Earn Pegasus Project Lifeskills Awards

    On Nov. 5, 1999, seven East Bay teenagers were awarded certificates and nightlights for completing the 1998 Lifeskills Program aboard the Institute's sailing vessel Pegasus. The youth are active members of the Berkeley Boosters, a Police Activities League program aimed at teenagers-at-risk. In addition, two other teenage Boosters were given awards for community service aboard the Pegasus, and eight Pegasus volunteer crew members also received awards for service over the last year. The awards were presented by Linda Maio, Berkeley City Council member. Berkeley Chief of Police Dash Butler also attended. The support of the City of Berkeley, Alba Witkin, the Hut Foundation, the Berkeley Yacht Club, the Berkeley Lions Club, and OCSC Sailing School was also recognized. The voyage preceeding the awards ceremony was filmed by a student film crew making a documentary film on the Pegasus Project for broadcast soon on KTVU, the Bay Area Fox-TV affiliate (Channel 2).

    Go to Pegasus Project ....

     

November 5, 1999

    Nautilus Co-Hosts First Industry-NGO Roundtable on Corporate Accountability

    The California Global Corporate Accountability Project, in collaboration with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program at Stanford Law School, hosts a Roundtable, "Hard Issues, Innovative Approaches: Improving NGO-Industry Dialogue on Corporate Responsibility and Accountability," November 9, 1999 at Stanford University. More than 50 participants will discuss key challenges faced by corporations and communities in defining corporate social responsibility, with the purpose of developing credible social accountability mechanisms.

    The California Global Corporate Accountability Project is a joint project of the Nautilus Institute, Human Rights Advocates, and the Natural Heritage Institute.

    Go to Corporate Accountability Project ...

     

    Ken Wilkening Briefs California Air Resources Board
    on Trans-Pacific Air Pollution

    Ken Wilkening described the newly emerging issue of trans-Pacific air pollution to Chairman Alan Lloyd and staff of the California Air Resources Board on October 29, 1999. This is part of Wilkening's ongoing effort to inform local, national, and international organizations of the issue, and solicit their participation in activities to address the scientific aspects of the issue. For more information, please email Ken Wilkening.

     

    OECD Publishes Nautilus Paper on Foreign Investment and the Environment

    The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published Co-Director Lyuba Zarsky's cutting-edge paper, "Havens, Halos and Spaghetti: Untangling the Evidence About the Relationship Between Foreign Investment and the Environment" (html summary) | (pdf full paper). Presented to an OECD conference in the Hague in January, 1999, Zarsky's paper critically evaluates the relationship between environmental impacts and foreign direct investment in developing countries under the current investment regime. She argues that evidence suggests a strong need for new global investment rules which expressly incorporate the principle of sustainability. The paper is contained in the OECD's report, OECD Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment.

     

    October 29, 1999

     

    The Internet and International Systems Workshop

    The Nautilus Institute, in collaboration with the World Affairs Council, will host a workshop, "The Internet and International Systems: Information Technology and American Foreign Policy Decisionmaking" on December 10th in San Francisco, California. The one-day conference will convene an international assembly of key academic, government, NGO, and private sector representatives to examine how changes in information communication technologies are reshaping the capacity for non-governmental actors to influence governmental foreign policymaking processes.

    The workshop is part of the ongoing Information in the Policy Process project. The project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, examines the changing relationship between advancing information technologies and political discourse in the foreign policymaking arena. The principal goal of the project is to develop a set of realistic long-term proposals for enhancing the effectiveness of governmental and non-governmental organizations in the "information age." For more information, please contact Jason Hunter.

    Go to the Workshop Homepage...

     

    New Uncertainties, New Tools: Scenarios for the Future of Asia Pacific

    The Nautilus Institute's Asia Pacific Scenarios Project will hold a workshop -- "New Uncertainties, New Tools: Scenarios for the Future of Asia Pacific Workshop" - on November 14-18 in Hong Kong. The project, funded by the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund and in partnership with the Global Business Network, will convene a series of roundtable workshops of key members of government, civil society, and business in the Asia-Pacific to develop ten-year scenarios about political and economic development trajectories in the aftermath of the financial crisis. For more information, please contact Jason Hunter.

    Go to Project Page....

 

October 22, 1999

 

    Virtual Air Force Briefing on DPRK Science and Technology

    On October 22, Co-Director Peter Hayes and Associate Jim Williams briefed The Pentagon Study Group On Japan and Northeast Asia for nearly two hours over a videoteleconference link in the Nautilus office with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in Arlington Virginia. The topic of the briefing was Science, Energy Technology, and Security in North Korea. Connected to the videoteleconference were twenty participants at Brooks Air Force Base, Eglin Air Force Base, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

    Referring to two forthcoming studies from Nautilus researchers on rural energy use and policy options for engaging the DPRK on rural energy needs, Drs. Hayes and Williams described the DPRK's scientific and technical infrastructure in general. They also focused on the DPRK's energy and electric power systems with particular reference to scientific and technological deficiencies. Finally, they addressed the issue of what the US military might do to advance a US-DPRK military-military cooperative agenda over the coming years to stabilize the situation in the Korean Peninsula.

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    Peter Hayes (left) and Mindy Kotler (right) of the
    Japan Information Access Project.

    The event was sponsored by the Japan Information Access Project in cooperation with the Air Force Research Laboratory, International Office and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission.

 

October 15, 1999

 

    Nuclear Secrecy on a Sliding Scale

    Recently declassified Pentagon documents, obtained in part by Nautilus associate Hans M. Kristensen, provide new and unprecedented details about where the United States deployed nuclear weapons during the Cold War. The documents uncover the deployment of thousands of US nuclear weapons in other countries, sometimes done without the consent or knowledge of the host-nations. The documents were acquired by Robert Norris of the Natural Resources Defense Council, William Burr of the National Security Archive, and Nautilus associate Hans M. Kristensen. Their findings are described in the upcoming issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and provide a rare glimpse into the secret world of Cold War nuclear history. They also demonstrate how excessive secrecy in the government's administration of the Freedom of Information Act sometimes withholds information from the public that is not a secret.

    Go to the Danish FOIA page...

     

    Indian Dignitaries Visit Nautilus

    On Friday, October 8 Indian Consul General in San Francisco, Rajendra M. Abhyankar and two of his guests, Mr. S.K. Singh and Major-General(Retd.) and Himmat Singh Gill , visited the Nautilus Institute to discuss the institute's emerging SAND project and security issues in South Asia. Mr. Singh served in the Indian Foreign Service from 1954-1990, the last two years of which as Foreign Secretary of India. General Gill served in the Armoured Corps for thirty-five years, including postings throughout the world and special assignments in Afghanistan and Vietnam. Wade Huntley, Nautilus Program Director for Asia-Pacific Security, briefed the delegation.

    Go to the SAND Project...

 

October 8, 1999

 

    Nautilus Awarded EPA Grant for Trans-Pacific Air Pollution Conference

    The U.S. EPA awarded the Nautilus Institute a $20,000 grant to help fund an international scientific conference on trans-Pacific transport of atmospheric contaminants. The Nautilus Institute is working in conjunction with the EPA Office of International Activities and EPA-Region 10 (Pacific Northwest & Alaska) to host the conference. For further details, contact Ken Wilkening at kew@nautilus.org.

     

    Wade Huntley Publishes Article on South Asian Nuclear Tests

    The Nautilus Institute's Security Program Director, Wade Huntley, published"Alternative Futures after the South Asian Nuclear Tests: Pokharan as Prologue" in Vol.39, No. 3 (May/June 1999) of Asian Survey. The article offers a conceptual framework within which the uncertainties of the long-term implications of the South Asian nuclear tests may be systematically assembled and assessed. It outlines the background and context for the nuclear tests, and presents a set of scenarios that describe a range of possible courses of events in Asia in the wake of the nuclear tests and in the context of the tests' wider regional implications. Each scenario is derived from varying assumptions concerning the disposition of selected contemporary critical uncertainties.

 

October 1, 1999

 

    Industry-NGO Roundtable on Corporate Accountability

    The California Global Corporate Accountability Project, in collaboration with the Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program at Stanford Law School, will hold a Roundtable, "Hard Issues, New Approaches: Strategies For Improving the NGO-Industry Dialogue on Corporate Accountability" on November 9, 1999 at Stanford University. The Roundtable is the first of three which aim to promote constructive dialogue between corporate and NGO leaders. Roundtable participants will discuss the key challenges corporations and communities face in defining corporate social responsibility, both in the U.S. and abroad, and will engage in developing credible social accountability mechanisms. Roundtable participants will discuss the key challenges NGOs and corporations face first, in defining the scope of corporate social responsiblity, at home and overseas, and second, in developing credible social accountability mechanisms.

    The Califronia Global Corporate Accountability Project is a joint project of the Nautilus Institute, Human Rights Advocates, and the Natural Heritage Institute.

    Go to Corporate Accountability Project ...

     

    Nautilus Hosts ESENA Workshop, 2-3 October

    The Nautilus Institute's Energy, Security & Environment in Northeast Asia project's final, synthesis workshop --"U.S.-Japan Cooperation on Energy, Environment & Security in Northeast Asia"--takes place on October 2-3 in Berkeley, California. Some 20 scholars from the U.S. and Japan meet to discuss the nexus of energy, environmental, and security issues in Northeast Asia, and finalize a set of recommendations for U.S.-Japan cooperation on these issues.

     

    Nautilus Presents at Peace Conference

    The Nautilus Institute will be represented Oct. 5 at the kick-off conference of the new Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego.

    The conference, titled "Building a Culture of Peace," takes place Oct. 4-7, 1999. Steve Freedkin, operations and finance director, will discuss our DPRK Renewable Energy Project as part of a panel on "Track II Diplomacy in Asia: How Scholars Support Peacemaking." The panel discussion is Tuesday, Oct. 5, 10:30-noon at USD's Manchester Auditorium.

    Go to Joan B. Kroc Peace Institute...

 

September 24, 1999

 

    ESENA Project Holds Final Workshop: "US-Japan Cooperation on Energy, Environment and Security in Northeast Asia"

    The Nautilus Institute's Energy, Security & Environment in Northeast Asia project is holding a workshop--"US-Japan Cooperation on Energy, Environment and Security in Northeast Asia"--on 2-3 October in Berkeley, California. This is the final, synthesis workshop of the three-year ESENA project. The main purpose of the workshop is to finalize a set of recommendations for US-Japan cooperation on energy, environmental, and security issues in the region.

    Go to ESENA Project...

     

    New Nautilus Policy Forum Online: "The Perry Report and the Future of Northeast Asian Security."

    On September 12, DPRK and US negotiators meeting in Berlin agreed that the DPRK would suspend long-range missile tests in exchange for a lifting of US sanctions. A few days later, former US Defense Secretary William Perry presented his report on DPRK policy to the US Congress. The Nautilus Institute is conducting a Policy Forum Online to provide expert analysis and opinion on how these developments will affect the future of US-DPRK relations and Northeast Asian security. Over the coming weeks, Nautilus will be distributing these essays over the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet) and making them available on the website.Recent postings include essays by Victor Cha of Georgetown University, Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute, and Jon Wolfstahl of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Readers are encouraged to send comments for distribution to napsnet@nautilus.org.

    Go to Policy Forum Online...

     

    Volunteers Mobilize to Keep Pegasus Safe

    On September 22, a crew of volunteers began important maintenance tasks on the Pegasus. These maintenance projects are critical aspects of operating the Pegasus Project with a strong commitment to safety. In addition to regular volunteer crew, the work teams this year include a team from the Berkeley Boosters, one of the partners of the Pegasus Project; and from the Berkeley Lions club who donated $500 to the Pegasus Project this year (thank you!).

    The deck work begins on Pegasus at K-128, Berkeley Marina each day at 9:30 am and continues through Tuesday September 28. Anyone interested in helping should contact the Pegasus hotline at 510-697-9296 or email pegasus@nautilus.org. On October 1st, a volunteer crew will take Pegasus to Alameda for an annual haulout and check-up. On October 2, a volunteer crew will tackle various jobs that require the vessel being in dry dock.

    Pegasus voyages with youth will resume on Friday October 22. Please check the Pegasus calendar for updates.

    Go to Pegasus Project...

 

September 17, 1999

     

    Nautilus East Timor Coverage

    The Nautilus Institute is responding to the urgent crisis in East Timor by compiling unique assessments and analyses by key experts from throughout the world in an effort to promote and broaden debate over appropriate responses to the crisis. This series of short papers address issues such as the sources of authority for actors in East Timor and in Indonesia with respect to the crisis; the roles for outside parties in the crisis (including the United Nations, the ASEAN Regional Forum, the United States, and other regional states); the prospect of forceful international intervention in East Timor; the contrast of the cases of East Timor and Kosovo; and the implications of the crisis for regional and global security and human rights regimes.

    Many of these analyses are being produced specifically for the Nautilus Institute. Since September 7, the Nautilus Institute has distributed over a dozen analyses, press releases and media overviews through the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet); these analyses can be accessed on the East Timor Special Reports section of the Nautilus web site.

    The most recent analyses include:

    The institute will continue to solicit and disseminate analyses and sponsor related activities as long as the crisis continues. We welcome all responses to this endeavor.

    Go to East Timor Special Reports...

     

    Pegasus Project Honored at Boosters' Annual Dinner

    Ove Wittstock, Executive Director of the Berkeley Boosters, thanked the Pegasus Project for supporting the Berkeley Boosters at its annual dinner on September 16, 1999.

    "Money cannot provide what is given by the volunteers on the Pegasus Project and the Nautilus Institute. The Pegasus is available to the Boosters for about twenty days of voyaging on San Francisco Bay each year," he added.

    "Thank you. We could not have done it without you," he said.

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-  4K Bill Proctor, coordinator of crew training for the Pegasus Project and captain of many of the day and overnight voyages with Booster teenagers; and Peter Hayes, Co-Director of the Nautilus Institute, were present at the dinner. Berkeley Mayor, Shirley Dean, and Berkeley Chief of Police, D.E. Butler, were among many city leaders attending the dinner.

    Also present were the Berkeley Boosters teenagers who have sailed on Pegasus. Cathy Corliss, Outdoor Program Manager, also spoke to the dinner and thanked Captain Proctor on behalf of the kids for the hard work of the Pegasus volunteers.

    Go to the Pegasus Project...

     

September 10, 1999

    Nautilus East Timor Coverage

    The Nautilus Institute is responding to the urgent crisis in East Timor by compiling unique assessments and analyses by key experts from throughout the world in an effort to promote and broaden debate over appropriate responses to the crisis. This series of short papers address issues such as the sources of authority for actors in East Timor and in Indonesia with respect to the crisis; the roles for outside parties in the crisis (including the United Nations, the ASEAN Regional Forum, the United States, and other regional states); the prospect of forceful international intervention in East Timor; the contrast of the cases of East Timor and Kosovo; and the implications of the crisis for regional and global security and human rights regimes.

    Many of these analyses are being produced specifically for the Nautilus Institute. Since September 7, the Nautilus Institute has distributed over a dozen analyses, press releases and media overviews through the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet); this material can be accessed on the NAPSNet Special Reports section of the Nautilus web site. The institute will continue to solicit and disseminate analyses and sponsor related activities as long as the crisis continues. We welcome all responses to this endeavor.

    Go to East Timor Special Reports...

     

    Nautilus Briefs ROK Minister of Unification

    On August 26, 1999 a Nautilus team consisting of Peter Hayes, Jim Williams, and Tim Savage met with ROK Unification Minister Lim Dong Wong in San Francisco. With Minister Kim were officials from the Unification Ministry, Dr. Yang Cheong Sik, 1st Minister of the ROK Embassy in Washington; and Yoo Tae-hyun, Consul General ROK in San Francisco.

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    Tim Savage, Peter Hayes, Minister Lim, Jim Williams

    The Nautilus team briefed Minister Lim on the Nautilus-KANPC joint village windpower project at Unhari in the DPRK. They also outlined options for expanded cooperative engagement with the DPRK on a range of urgent rural energy and humanitarian needs--the subject of a forthcoming Nautilus study on the interrelationships between food-fuel-and-famine in the DPRK.

    Minister Lim asked how much power and what cost was involved at the Unhari project. He encouraged Nautilus to continue this work, stating that it was important for non-governmental organizations like Nautilus Institute to be working on the ground in the DPRK.

     

    Nautilus Sets Scenarios Workshop Date & Location

    The Nautilus Institute announced this week that the first Asia Pacific Scenarios Project workshop will be held in Hong Kong on November 15-17. The project, funded by the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund and in partnership with the Global Business Network, will convene a series of roundtable workshops of key members of government, civil society, and business in the Asia-Pacific to develop ten-year scenarios about political and economic development trajectories in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

    Go to Project Page....

 

September 3, 1999

     

    Nautilus Director: Aid to DPRK Should Focus on Rehabilitation, Not Subsistence

    Nautilus Co-Executive Director Peter Hayes tells the San Francisco Chronicle that instead of providing North Korea (DPRK) with $250 million in international food assistance a year, aid monies would be better spent rehabilitating the country's basic food producing infrastructure. Within five years, Hayes suggests, the DPRK would be back on track, safer to share a world with, and less likely to implode.

    Read the article...
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    Chinese Eco Activist Visits Nautilus Institute

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Meeting Chinese environmentalist Sheri Xiaoyi Liao, founder of Global Village of Beijing (GVB), met with Nautilus representatives Aug. 30.

    GVB produces television programs distributed throughout China, including a weekly environmental television series, as well as an environmental publication series. GVB is also working to establish an environmental education center with a nature reserve and eco-friendly buildings, and is helping others to create non-governmental citizen groups in China.

    In addition to GVB U.S. staff member Ray Cheung, Ms. Liao, and Nautilus Board Chair Dr. Kirk Smith (pictured, L-R), the meeting was attended by Co-Executive Director Dr. Peter Hayes, Environment Program Officer Jason Hunter, Energy Program Officer Ken Wilkening, Operations and Finance Director Steve Freedkin, and environmental architect Robert Cook, a board member of GVB's U.S. affiliate.

    Read the article from GlobalBeat online ...

     

    Windpower Monthly features DPRK Renewable Energy Project 

    Windpower Monthly, a news magazine of wind energy development, recently published an article describing the Nautilus Institute's DPRK Renewable Energy Project.

    Read the article...

     

August 27, 1999

 

    Nautilus Report Prompts Calls For Japan to Abandon Nuclear "Double gioStandard"

    The Nautilus report Japan Under the Nuclear Umbrella Wednesday prompted the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun to call on the Japanese government to abandon a "double standard" on the country's nuclear policy. Japan officially bans nuclear weapons from its territory, but the Nautilus report used recently declassified information to document that the United States routinely brought nuclear weapons into Japan during the Cold War. The report also disclosed that the United States built and maintained nuclear war plansfrom its facilities in Japan and that U.S. nuclear war exercises have continued in Japan well into the 1990s. The weapons have since been withdrawn, but the policy that permitted the violation remains and the nuclear exercises continue. Japan is a forceful advocate of nuclear disarmament, but this important effort is undermined by Japan's Cold War nuclear legacy of secretly permitting nuclear weapons and nuclear exercises on its territory.

    Go to article...

     

    Paper Presented on North Korean WMD Proliferation  

    Peter Hayes presenting paper Peter Hayes, Co-Director of Nautilus Institute, presented a paper in Monterey on August 19 at the Conference on Influencing The Motivations Of WMD (Weapons Of Mass Destruction) States: New Directions In Nonproliferation And Counter-proliferation. The conference was sponsored by the US Department of Defense's Non-Proliferation Center and was organized by the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School with support from Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies.

    The paper addressed the theme of how to influence North Korea's proliferation propensity. Dr. Hayes and co-authors Wade Huntley, Tim Savage, and Jim Williams, argued that although most lessons learned in the DPRK case are highly specific to the DPRK context and are difficult to transpose to other cases of potential proliferation, there are some tentative general lessons as to the utility of using innovative tools of cooperative engagement rather than relying solely on traditional military containment, diplomatic leverage, and economic sanctions.

    In particular, the Nautilus team argued that "learning from cooperative engagement is a critical aspect for all parties seeking to move back from the bottomless pit of renewed conflict in the Korean Peninsula."

    More about the paper...

 

August 20, 1999

     

    Lyuba Zarsky Participates in ADB-USAEP Workshop in Manila  

    Lyuba Zarsky Lyuba Zarsky, CoDirector of the Nautilus Institute and Manager of the Globalization and Governance Program, presented a paper to an environmental policy agenda-setting workshop organized by the US-Asia Environmental Partnership (US-AEP) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Held in Manila on August 2-3, the workshop brought together various efforts currently underway to assess the current state of environmental policy in Asia and to prepare an agenda for future policy initiatives. The ADB is preparing a major new publication, "Asian Environmental Outlook - 2000." The US-AEP has commissioned a series of "framing papers" which explore a new, performance-based environmental policy framework to govern urban-industrial expansion. Some 45 people from around the region attended the workshop, which was also co-sponsored by the Greening of Industry Network, Asia.

    Lyuba's paper is entitled Civil Society and Clean Shared Growth in Asia: Towards a Stakeholder Model of Environmental Governance.

     

    Nautilus Participates in Sustainable Development Workshops in Tokyo  

    Ken Wilkening, Program Officer for the Energy, Security & Environment Program, recently participated in two workshops on sustainable development in Tokyo. One was sponsored by the Center for Global Partnership (CGP) and the other was jointly sponsored by CGP and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). At both workshops, Ken presented a "Bay-to-Bay Maritime Cooperation" project idea developed during the course of the Nautilus Institute's ESENA Project.

    More about the workshop...


     

    Nautilus Partner to Head Amnesty International  

    Julianne Traylor, one of the Principal Investigators in the California Global Corporate Accountability Project, has been named chairwoman of Amnesty International USA. Ms. Traylor is a founder and Project Director of Human Rights Advocates, which, along with the San Francisco-based Natural Heritage Institute, is collaborating with the Nautilus Institute in the Corporate Accountability Project. Amnesty International, the nation's largest grassroots human rights organization, will begin a yearlong program on human rights and environment next month.

    For more details, visit the San Francisco Chronicle website...

 

August 13, 1999

     

    Compton and Greenville Grants Support DPRK Rural Energy Work  

    Two Californian foundations have supported Nautilus Institute's on-going work in North Korea (DPRK) on rural energy issues.

    The Compton Foundation has funded the Nautilus Institute to conduct expert analyses on the critical energy development dilemmas for the DPRK. In addition to a workshop to review the studies, the results will be published immediately on the Internet as they become available.

    In each case, the key question is whether cooperative energy engagement between the DPRK and the international community - led by the United States - can lead to peaceful resolution of the DPRK's threatened nuclear weapons proliferation. Authors will develop a set of feasible policy measures to implement such engagement in each DPRK energy problem area.

    The Greenville Foundation has funded Nautilus to help South Korean non-governmental organizations to address rural energy needs in flood-affected and famine-afflicted villages in North Korea.

    More about the DPRK rural energy crisis...

     

    Pegasus Project Supports MARE Summer Institute  

    MARE 
TrainingThe Pegasus Project participated in the MARE Lawrence Hall of Science summer teacher training institute on marine environmental education. The Pegasus took out two groups of teachers on July 29 and August 5 for evening voyages on San Francisco Bay. On August 5, Jason Hunter and Peter Hayes gave the twenty five participating teachers a Virtual Voyage at the Lawrence Hall of Science computer laboratory, taking the teachers in an on-line trip on the Pegasus and companion sites such as Virtual Expedition.

    More about the training...

 

August 6, 1999

     

    Ford and MacArthur Grants for Corporate Accountability Project  

    The Nautilus Institute has received support grants from the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation for its California Global Corporate Accountability Project. The research and advocacy Project examines ways to raise the environmental and social performance of California-based multinationals through innovations in corporate governance based on disclosure, state-level regulation and community engagement. Focused initially on oil and high-tech sectors, the Project is a collaboration with the Natural Heritage Institute and Human Rights Advocates.

    More about the project...

     

    Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Delegation  

    On August 3, a delegation of Eastern European representatives to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) visited the Nautilus Institute to learn about the Institute's security programs and exchange views on current security issues in Europe and in Asia. The delegation was visiting the United States as part of the International Visitor Program of the US Information Agency. The group included representatives from Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, and Russia. All of the delegates are based at the OSCE offices in Vienna, Austria. Nautilus Security Program Director Wade Huntley, NAPSNet Coordinator Tim Savage, and Security Program Associate Hans Kristensen briefed the delegation on the Institute's programs, including the Nuclear Policy Project, the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet), and the Non-Nuclear NATO Network. Subsequent discussions addressed a variety of issues, including the international consequences of the recent conflict in Kosovo, the difficulties in promoting common standards of human rights, and the connection between European and Asian security issues, particularly in the wake of the NATO bombing of the PRC Embassy in Yugoslavia.

     

    FDI and Environment Foreign Policy Brief  

    The governance of international capital flows will be one the key environmental policy issues of the next decade, argues Nautilus Institute CoDirector Lyuba Zarsky in International Investment Rules and the Environment: Stuck in the Mud?, the current issue of Foreign Policy in Focus. Local and national competition for foreign direct investment put a drag on environment standards, suggests Zarsky. To overcome it, nations must collectively establish environmental and social norms for investment. Rather than single-mindedly pursuing liberalization, the U.S. should articulate a clear set of economic, social, and strategic goals for its international investment policy viz a public policy debate. The In Focus series is produced by the Interhemispheric Resource Center and Institute for Policy Studies.

    Lyuba's FDI work...

 

July 23, 1999

     

    Nautilus Releases Paper on US Nuclear Weapons in Japan

    The Nautilus Institute has published a new paper, Japan Under the US Nuclear Umbrella, by Nautilus Associate Hans M. Kristensen. Using US government documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act, Kristensen examines the U.S.-Japanese nuclear relationship as it unfolded from the beginning of the Cold War through the early 1990s. The documents add substantial weight to previous assertions that the United States routinely brought nuclear weapons into Japan despite Japan's non-nuclear policy, and sheds light on suspicions that Japanese government officials accepted these deployments. The documents also reveal for the first time how part of the U.S. nuclear war plan itself was built at U.S. facilities in Japan. This research was conducted as part of the East Asia Nuclear Policy Project, under a grant from the Ploughshares Fund.

    Read the paper...

 

July 14, 1999

     

    Nautilus releases paper on nuclear aspects of US-Japan relationship  

    Morton H. Halperin argues in The Nuclear Dimension of the U.S.-Japan Alliance, a new paper commissioned by The Nautilus Institute as part of its East Asia Nuclear Policy Project, that future developments in the U.S.-Japan alliance will significantly influence whether Japan pursues an independent nuclear weapons capability. Although most discussions of nuclear proliferation focus on India, Pakistan, and so-called "rogue" states like North Korea and Iraq, the US-Japan military alliance is a crucial element for either promoting or discouraging nuclear proliferation. Halperin looks at how US nuclear policy affects Japan's nuclear decisions, and concludes, contrary to conventional wisdom, that US sponsorship of a nuclear-free zone for Northeast Asia is the most effective means of preventing Japan from going nuclear.

    More about the paper...

     

    Nuclear Policy List Launched 

    The Nautilus Institute recently launched an email list service for the East Asia Nuclear Policy Project. The purpose of the list is to distribute the commissioned research and analysis of the project, as well as other key analysis and information on East Asian nuclear policy and regional security issues. The first distribution on the listserve was the above paper by Morton H. Halperin. Upcoming distributions include Japan Under the Nuclear Umbrella, a comprehensive report based on Nautilus Freedom of Information Act research into US nuclear weapons practices in Japan, and the summary of discussions at the Nautilus-sponsored First Collaborative Workshop on East Asian Regional Security Futures, held in Shanghai, China, May 29-30, 1999. To subscribe, please fill out the email signup form and check the NPPNet box.

     

    Nautilus Staff Member Completes Pan-Asian Field Work 

    Jason Hunter aboard Vietnamese fishing vessel Jason Hunter, Nautilus Institute Program Officer, completed a two-month, seven country, field research project examining emerging trends and perspectives in post-crisis Asia. During the trip, Jason interviewed over 150 key government, business, NGO, and academic leaders in China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and the Philippines. The research trip is the first stage in the multi-year Asia-Pacific Scenarios Project.
     
    More about the trip...

 

July 7, 1999

     

    DPRK Delegation Completes China Energy Tour

    The rural energy delegation from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), which recently visited the United States, has completed a successful two-part tour on renewable energy issues in China. The China study tour was part of a joint tour and training conducted in both the United States and China. Prof. Wang Yanjia, Director of the US-China Energy and Environment Technology Center (EETC) at Tsinghua University in Beijing, coordinated the study tour in China.

    More about the tour...

     

    Shanghai Regional Security Workshop Summary Released

    The Nautilus Institute has released a summary of the discussions that took place at the First Collaborative Workshop of the East Asia Regional Security Futures Project in Shanghai, China, May 29-30, 1999. The workshop was jointly sponsored by The Nautilus Institute and the Center for American Studies at Fudan University. Participants, most of whom were from Japan and China, discussed contemporary issues relevant to regional security. They identified core factors and tensions, and discussed the long-term development of the regional security system.
     
    Workshop summary...
     
    Workshop overview...

 

June 29, 1999

     

    Shanghai Workshop Initiates Dialogue on Long-Term Regional Security

    The Nautilus Institute and the Center for American Studies at Fudan University sponsored the First Collaborative Workshop of the East Asia Regional Security Futures Project in Shanghai, China, on May 29-30, 1999. Most participants were from China and Japan. To help promote communication and wider understanding, the meeting included both experts with considerable past experience and participants whose work will focus on these issues for some years into the future.

    The meeting followed an open-ended format emphasizing discussion. Participants in the workshop discussed a wide variety of contemporary issues and relationships relevant to the ongoing evolution of the regional security environment, and sought to identify the core factors and tensions underlying these issues. A final session focused on participants' views on the long-term future development of the regional security system.

    More about the workshop...

     

    Nomura Researcher Visits Nautilus

    Manabu Fukuchi of Nomura 
Research Institute A researcher from Japan's first and largest think tank, the Nomura Research Institute, visited Nautilus to discuss the Nautilus' work on environmental security issues.

    More about the visit...

 

June 16, 1999

     

    Nautilus Director: Latest Korea Naval Standoff Likely To Be Defused

    Nautilus Co-Executive Director Peter Hayes tells Ted Clark on National Public Radio's All Things Considered that the ROK (South Korea) is under pressure to show "backbone" in dealing with the DPRK (North Korea), but there are signs of de-escalation. To listen to the report, click here (requires RealPlayer).

     

    Nautilus Receives Asian Energy Security Grant from DOE

    The US Department of Energy has granted the Nautilus Institute $750,000 over three years for a project "to improve common understandings and build confidence between actually or potentially adversarial states by increasing the transparency of energy planning and nuclear power projections in the region," Peter Hayes, Nautilus Institute Co-Director, has announced.

    More about the project...

     

    ESENA Research leads to Ambio Publication

    "Energy Consumption and Acid Deposition in Northeast Asia" by David Streets et al. was published in the March 1999 issue of Ambio. The article is based in part on two papers by Gregory Carmichael, University of Iowa, and David Streets, Argonne National Laboratory, on acid rain issues in Northeast Asia. These two papers were originally commissioned by the Nautilus Institute for the Energy, Security, Environment in Northeast Asia (ESENA) Project.

    Read the ESENANet report...

     

    Pegasus Project Launches Photo Gallery

    Ruch Burn 
Foundation Sailors Visit the Pegasus Project's new Photo Gallery and check out photos and original artwork from the Institute's student marine environment education program, the Pegasus Project.

    More about the Pegasus Project...

 

June 4, 1999

    ROK Energy Delegation Visits Nautilus

    ROK 
Delegation visits Nautilus InstituteA delegation of local officials from the Republic of Korea recently visited the Nautilus Institute to discuss Sustainable Cities issues. While at Nautilus, the delegation was briefed on various Institute projects, including the California Global Corporate Accountability Project.

     

    East Asia Regional Security Futures

    The First Collaborative Workshop of the East Asia Regional Security Futures Project was recently held in Shanghai, China, under the sponsorship of the Nautilus Institute and the Center for American Studies at Fudan University. As the basis for the development of long-term security scenarios for East Asia, worshop participants surveyed and discussed the contemporary issues and relationships most relevant to the ongoing evolution of the regional security environment.

    Go to Workshop information...

     

    Pegasus Project Completes Spring Program

    Pegasus The Spring 1999 marine environment education program finished with two final school voyages on June 2 and 4. The school voyages are a joint activity of the Pegasus Project and the Shorebird Nature Center. Read about the final voyages of the Spring 1999 environment education program.

    More about the Pegasus Project...

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