http://www.globalasia.org 2012-02-05 13:36:23 All rights reserved. It is taken as orthodoxy in much of the democratic West that intrusive efforts to promote democracy, up to and including armed intervention of the kind seen recently in NATO's support of the Libyan uprising, are means justified by the ends - namely to support democratic governance. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N4_Winter_2011/Timo_Kivimaki.html Feature Essays 2011-12-26 09:15:30+0900 China's newfound assertiveness, particularly in its maritime disputes with its neighbors, has disturbed the region and reawakened US attention to a part of the world it had largely been neglecting. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N4_Winter_2011/Nick_Bisley.html Feature Essays 2011-12-26 09:15:30+0900 Despite its potential for conflict rooted in historical grievances, Northeast Asia lags far behind Europe in developing multilateral systems to ensure effective regional security co-operation. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N4_Winter_2011/Frances_Mautner-Markhof.html Feature Essays 2011-12-26 09:15:30+0900 As the Six-Party talks aimed at eliminating North Korea’s nuclear program remain stalled, a fresh approach incorporating the concept of a nuclear weapons-free zone in Northeast Asia should be considered as a way of ensuring peace and security in the region, Morton H. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N4_Winter_2011/Morton_H_alperin.html Feature Essays 2011-12-26 09:15:30+0900 Nuclear energy, long a contentious issue in Taiwanese politics, has been catapulted into the spotlight by upcoming presidential elections and the nuclear disaster at Fukushima in March 2011. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N4_Winter_2011/Henry_Philippens.html Feature Essays 2011-12-26 09:15:30+0900 If the political process under way in Burma genuinely heralds the end of the country's long torpor under military rule, the opening of the economy is a key factor. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N4_Winter_2011/Pavin_Chachavalpongpun.html Feature Essays 2011-12-26 09:15:30+0900 One by-product of democracy over the last dozen years in Indonesia has been the creation of a political polling and consulting industry. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N4_Winter_2011/Andreas_Ufen.html Feature Essays 2011-12-26 09:15:30+0900 Declassified CIA papers cast new light on South Korea's attempt to develop nuclear weapons in the 1970s and show that the program continued for at least two years after the US thought it had ended. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N3_Fall_2011/Peter_Hayes&Chung-in_Moon.html Feature Essays 2011-09-19 09:15:30+0900 With the recent election of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, her brother Thaksin Shinawatra’s populist ethos has returned to Thailand. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N3_Fall_2011/Peter_Warr.html Feature Essays 2011-09-19 09:15:30+0900 When ASEAN member states' foreign ministers gathered with counterparts from the US, China and Japan for a summit in July in Bali, many observers had expected the issue of maritime disputes in the South China Sea to dominate discussions. http://www.globalasia.org/V6N3_Fall_2011/Mark_J_Valencia.html Feature Essays 2011-09-19 09:15:30+0900