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 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.
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.
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 ...
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
...
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.
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
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.
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 ....
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
October 8, 1999
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
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
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.
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...
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.
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...
Chinese Eco Activist Visits Nautilus Institute
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...
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,
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, 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 The 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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Nomura Researcher Visits
Nautilus 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.
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.
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.
Pegasus Project Launches
Photo Gallery 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.
June 4, 1999 ROK Energy Delegation
Visits Nautilus A 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.
Pegasus Project Completes
Spring Program 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.
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