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June 23, 2000
Receives MacArthur Fellowship
The annual Fellowship is awarded in recognition of
exceptional creativity
and significant accomplishment. Each recipient is given $500,000 over
five years.
Speaking from Beijing, where he is attending a Nautilus Institute
workshop on energy futures and energy security in East
Asia, Dr. Hayes
said: "Although the Fellowship is made on an individual basis, it is
also a strong vote of confidence in the mission and impact
of the work
of the entire staff of the Nautilus Institute."
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Release ...
The Nautilus Institute and the
Center
for American Studies at Fudan University held a three-day workshop
to generate a range of ten-year scenarios for the future of U.S.-China
relations June 8-10. Held in Shanghai, China, the highly
interactive workshop
brought together twenty Chinese and American analysts of
security, energy,
economic, and environmental issues.
Facilitated by the Global
Business Network-Europe, the workshop was the first
step in a project
which aims to propose new cooperation-building policy
options for both
China and the U.S. A second workshop will be held in November.
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Project...
of Future US-China Relations?
In an article in Progressive
Response, a publication of Foreign Policy in
Focus, Program
and Research Director Lyuba Zarsky
argues that the opposition of progressives to normalization
of trade relations
with China is not really about China but the failures of the WTO. The
overarching progressive aim is to build an ethics-based global economy.
But, Zarsky emphasizes, bashing China undermines an ethically based
system of international state-to-state relations. "The sad truth is
that there is no progressive vision of US-China relations. Treating
China like a pariah state, even as it modernizes and
develops relations
with other nations, works against both world peace and a progressive
global movement."
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Peter Hayes Briefs
Energy Department on
On May 9, Nautilus
Executive Director
Peter Hayes briefed Rose
Gottemoeller,
Deputy Administrator for the Defense
Nuclear Nonproliferation, at the US Department of Energy
in Washington
DC on the potential for regional electric power grid interconnection in
Northeast Asia. Dr. Hayes examined the dilemma posed by the small size
and unreliability of the DPRK grid for the KEDO
light water reactors under construction in the DPRK.
Dr. Hayes suggested that AC or DC high voltage transmission lines
could export the power from the reactors in the DPRK to China. Doing
so would displace coal-intensive thermal power plants in
China in ways
that would support the long-term reintegration of the DPRK
and ROK electric
power grids.
He noted that the ROK might be able to finance such an approach by
using the Clean Development Mechanism of the Climate Change
Convention.
This mechanism allows countries to finance measures to
reduce greenhouse
gas reductions in other countries and to claim the
reductions as their
own.
Interviewed by Radio Australia
On May 1, Nautilus
Executive Director
Peter Hayes delivered a
seminar briefing
on the situation inthe DPRK at the Asia
Institute, Monash University, in Melbourne Australia. The
Asia Institute
is aNAPSNet and SANDNet partner. Afterwards, he answered
questions fromfaculty
and students including who was best equipped to respond to
theDPRK's nuclear
challenge as well as specific technical issues pertaining tothe DPRK's
energy dilemmas. While in Australia, he was interviewed by
Kanaha Sabapathy
of theAustralian Broadcasting Corporation's radio program Asia Pacific
on thepending June summit between North and South Korea. The interview
wasbroadcast on May 3rd and also aired internationally on
Radio Australia.The
interview may be heard on Asia-Pacific's websiteat
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/asiapac/record.htm
or by clicking here.
Don came to the administrative world from the performing
arts, having
degrees in music and opera theatre from Oberlin College and Manhattan
School of Music as well as a doctorate from Florida State University.
Don's original profession included a stint on Broadway and several
national tours. He continues to engage in occasional stints
as a music
director, stage director or performer for local Gilbert &
Sullivan groups.
Addressing some 100 participants from around the world, Ms. Zarsky
suggested that investment negotiations should not be
squeezed into the
WTO but developed via a stand-alone framework agreement. She states
in her paper, Getting
Traction? Sustainable Development and the Governance of
Investment,
that "the most important task for the WTO is to build a
bridge to other
international organizations and to national governments." Britain's
Environment Minister, Michael Meacher, also addressed the conference.
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The Institute
on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) at the
University of California,
San Diego published the latest Nautilus study on the DPRK's
rural energy
crisis. The paper,
"Fuel and Famine: Rural Energy Crisis in the Democratic
People's Republic
of Korea," was co-written by Nautilus Senior Associates James
H. Williams and David
von Hippel
and Executive Director Peter
Hayes.
The authors review the DPRK's ongoing energy shortage and its
devastating
effects on the country's food production. They suggest
promoting smaller-scale,
alternative projects to deal with the agricultural impacts of
the DPRK's
energy shortage. Research for the paper was funded by a grant from the
US Department of
Energy.
On March 16, Peter Hayes presented the paper at an event co-sponsored
by IGCC and the Mansfield Center
for Pacific Affairs. About fifty policy analysts and
decision makers
attended the event.
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Renewable Energy Project...
Berkeley's Willard School class who voyaged on Pegasus on March 16
have completed classwork on their experience. Students
completed theme-cards,
such as shown above. The Pegasus Project offers an on-line curriculum
called Virtual Voyage.
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Project...
The Nautilus
Institute has greatly
expanded the Web resources available under the California
Global Corporate
Accountability Project.
The site now contains nearly 50 pages regarding
the social and environmental performance of
California-based multinational
companies in the oil and information-technology sectors. Most of the
Web site was composed by Nautilus Research Assistant Suzanne
Beck.
The California Corporate Accountability Project is a joint endeavor
of Nautilus, the Natural Heritage Institute (NHI),
and Human Rights Advocates (HRA). The project is conducting a series
of "stakeholder dialog" roundtables that include representatives of
corporations and non-governmental organizations, and plans to publish
a book-length report that evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of the
codes-of-conduct approach, examines key issues and practices in the
leading investment sites of targeted firms, and proposes innovations
in governance. It is co-directed by Lyuba
Zarsky of Nautilus, Michelle
Leighton-Schwartz of NHI, and Naomi
Roht-Arriaza of HRA. Funding is provided by the Richard
and Rhoda Goldman Fund, the Ford
Foundation, and the MacArthur
Foundation.
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Accountability Site...
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Project...
Peter Hayes
Unveils "Non-Governmental
Secret Weapon"
Peter Hayes urged
increased cooperative
engagement with the DPRK at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace Non-Proliferation Conference on
March 17, 2000 in Washington, DC, stressing the need for
non-governmental
development projects to go beyond merely humanitarian aid. He
called for
projects addressing the urgent need to rehabilitate the rural
energy sector,
and described one "non-governmental secret weapon" that the
Nautilus Institute
intends to deliver to a DPRK hospital or school in 2000 with
perfect delivery
accuracy and 100 percent kill probability: a solar-cell
powered ultraviolet
light water purification unit that kills pathogens in dirty water. The
unit is made by Water
Health International. On March 16, he spoke at the launch
of the Institute's
latest study on DPRK rural energy issues, Fuel and Famine in the DPRK,
at an event co-sponsored by the Institute
on Global Conflict and Cooperation and the
Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs. About fifty policy analysts
and decision makers attended the event.
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Renewable Energy Project...
The Nautilus
Institute is pleased
to announce publication of the final report of the three-year
ESENA
Project. The report presents a framework for thinking
about the nexus
of energy, environmental and security issues in Northeast
Asia and makes
recommend-
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Project...
Alta Vista
Fifth Grade
Class Braves the Bay
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Project...
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nuclear relations ...
The role of China in
the Pentagon's
nuclear war planning has gradually increased throughout the late-1990s,
writes Hans M. Kristensen in an on-line paper
(locate "U.S. Nuclear Reform" in the Analysis & Tools section
of the side
bar) published by OneDemocracy.com.
After being demoted to a second-class opponent in the early
1980s, China
was formally brought back into main-stream U.S. nuclear war planning in
October 1998 with the completion of the SIOP-00 (Single
Integrated Operational
Plan). The development follows President Clinton's signing of
Presidential
Decision Directive 60 (PDD-60) in November 1997, which formally ordered
military planner to broaden the range of targets for U.S.
nuclear weapons
in China in response to the country's continued development
of long-range
ballistic missiles. The paper is also available here.
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Policy Project...
Nautilus's Tim Savage Says in Article
When US policymakers discuss the
major security threats facing the United States, they inevitably cite
North Korea, writes Nautilus Security Program Officer Timothy
Savage in an online article
published by One
Democracy.com. Savage reviews the history of the role of the DPRK
threat in US policymaking, and argues that easy
characterizations of the
DPRK as a belligerent Stalinist "rogue state" are a poor substitute for
an informed debate over the degree to which the DPRK actually
has either
the capacity or the intent to truly threaten US interests. The article
is also published at Asia
Times Online.
On March 9, Ms. Tae-Son Kwon, Foreign News Editor for the Hankyoreh Shinmun, an ROK
daily newspaper with a circulation of 500,000, visited the Nautilus
Institute to learn about the Institute's Program on Global
Peace & Security.
Ms. Kwon was on a tour of the US under the auspices of the
US
Department of State's International Visitor Program to
learn about
US foreign policy toward Asia and the Korean Peninsula, and the role
of non-governmental organizations and think tanks in influencing US
foreign policy. Her visit to the office was arranged by the International Diplomacy
Council
in San Francisco.
Teachers,
Volunteers
Complete Training for
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![]() Nautilus Institute office framed by a rainbow, March 2, 2000
The recent crisis in East Timor
reveals the inadequacy of existing Asia-Pacific security arrangements
to cope with regional crises, and highlights the increasing importance
of the relationship of international security and human rights in the
post-Cold War world.
Wade Huntley,
Nautilus Program
Director for Global Security, and Peter
Hayes, Nautilus Executive Director, offer this
conclusion in a recently
published article, "East
Timor and Asian Security."
The article appears in the current issue of the Bulletin
of Concerned Asian Scholars (Volume 31, Nos. 1 and
2), a special
issue on "East Timor, Indonesia and the World System." A plain
text version of the article was also distributed as a
NAPSNet
Special Report.
Additional information on the crisis in East Timor can be found on
the Nautilus East Timor Special
Reports Page.
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Asia Peace and Security Network ...
Megan
Keever Joins Staff
Megan is a graduate of the University of California at
San Diego (UCSD)
with a B.S. in Ecology, Behavior and Evolution. She has participated
in tropical ecology research in Costa Rica, and in Pacific
Coast marine
research at Scripps Institute for Oceanography. She has also worked
extensively for UCSD in various administrative capacities.
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Nautilus Associate David
Von Hippel presented a five-day training on the use of
LEAP software
with specialists on China's energy economy at the Nautilus
Institute during
the week ended Feb. 11, 2000. LEAP,
the Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning system, is a software tool
for integrated energy-environment and greenhouse gas
mitigation analysis.
Nautilus researchers have used LEAP to analyze critical
energy and environment
issues in East Asia.
Attending the training were Professor Yanjia Wang from Tsinghua
University; Jonathan Sinton and Alan Lamont from Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory; Nautilus Associate Jim
Williams; and Nautilus staff Peter
Hayes and Masami Nakata.
The participants learned how to implement energy scenarios in LEAP
software, and conducted a case study of alternative energy analysis
for China. The training workshop was funded by US
Department of Energy and the W.
Alton Jones Foundation.
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Nautilus Welcomes Prof. Yanjia Wang of Tsinghua University Go to East Asia Energy Futures Project ...
Nautilus Conducts Training on Energy Modeling Nautilus research associate David von Hippel is conducting a training workshop Feb. 7-11 on the LEAP (Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning System) model developed by the Stockholm Environment Insitute. LEAP is one of the world's leading computer-based accounting and simulation tools designed to assist policymakers in evaluating energy policies and developing sound, sustainable energy strategies. The training will focus on China. Another LEAP training will be held in China in June. For more information, contact Masami Nakata. Go to East Asia Energy Futures Project ...
The Korea
Foundation awarded the Nautilus Institute a $100,000 grant for the
"Nexus between Energy, Environment, and Security in the DPRK" project.
Under the one-year project, Nautilus will conduct research,
hold seminars
on DPRK energy problems and their impact on security and environmental
issues, and publish the results in both paper and electronic forms. The
project is part of the institute's ongoing DPRK
Renewable Energy Project.
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Renewable Energy Project ...
Peace and
Security Program
Inaugurates NAPSNet "Week in Review"
The Nautilus Institute's Peace
and Security
Program announces inauguration of a new email list service as part
of the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet).
Currently, the NAPSNet Daily Report
is issued each weekday to 2000 recipients in 30 countries
throughout the
world. NAPSNet's new Week in Review highlights the news and
analyses covered
in the Daily Report, in addition to original material that
falls outside
its normal purview.
The first issue was sent to NAPSNet recipients on January 21. Each
issue is sent by email and is also incorporated into the
main NAPSNet
web page. Beginning in February, email recipients will be able to
subscribe separately to the Daily Report and the Week in Review. To
subscribe to either -- or both! -- of these services, visit
the Nautilus
Institute Signup Page.
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and Security Program ...
KTVU Features Pegasus
Project
View
Report (requires RealPlayer
or RealJukebox)
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Other documents available from the conference include "De-Nuclearization
Challenges in Asia for the 21st Century" (Acrobat
format) by Roland
Simbulan, professor at the University of the Philippines and chairman
of the Nuclear-Free Philippine Coalition, and "India's
Draft Nuclear Doctrine: It's Implications for the Asia-Pacific"
(Acrobat format) by Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Associate Professor with the
School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New
Delhi.
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Asia Nuclear Policy Project ...
Marena
Drlik joins Nautilus
Technical Staff
The Nautilus Institute's Peace and Security Program inaugurated two new email list networks:
Visit the Nautilus Institute Signup Page to subscribe to either network and receive the free email reports. Go to the Peace and Security Program ...
Nautilus Institute Receives MacArthur Foundation Grant on Theater Missile Defense The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation granted $100,000 to the Nautilus Institute to expand the Institute's Nuclear Policy Project to cover theater missile defense (TMD) and national missile defense (NMD) issues. The deployment of TMD in East Asia is a rapidly emerging "critical issue" with a strong relationship to proposals for NMD in the United States. The grant supports analysis by U.S. experts and regional specialists, extensive Freedom of Information Act research on U.S. doctrinal and operational intentions with respect to missile defense systems, and collaborative workshops aimed at enhancing consensual understanding of the strategic and political implications of TMD and NMD alternatives. Go to the Peace and Security Program ...
The final report of the Nautilus Institute's three-year Energy, Security, Environment in Northeast Asia (ESENA) project, "Energy, Environment and Security in Northeast Asia: Defining a U.S.-Japan Partnership for Regional Comprehensive Security," is now available here. Go to report ...
Masami Nakata Joins Nautilus Staff
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