Pacific Prospective

Pacific Prospective features the research of graduate students.

Students in the Master of Arts – Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS) program at the Institute of Asian Research at The University of British Columbia have written a majority of the Memos published under Pacific Prospective. But we continue to feature the work of graduate students around the world.

If you are a graduate student, and are interested in writing a piece for Asia Pacific Memo’s Pacific Prospective, please see “Become a Contributor“.

Our Pacific Prospective Memos:

• Charging Beijing’s Electric Vehicles Policy (Memo #306, by Marc McCrum and Grégoire Legault)

• Counter Insurgency in Afghanistan: Whose Violence is it anyways? (Memo #305, by Dur-e-Aden)

• Sustainable Tourism Governance in Bulacan Province: Practical Steps towards Collaboration (Memo #304, by Rosa Hsuan-Ju Shih)

• The Business of Saving the Angat (Memo #299, by Sarah Thomas)

• Nǐ sǐ wǒ huó (“You Die, I live”): Xi Jinping’s Anti-Corruption Campaign as Power Consolidation (Memo #295, by Elizabeth MacArthur)

• Chinese SOEs and Non-Renewable Resource Development in Alberta (Memo #294, by Daniel Wood)

• Third Culture Kids and the Rise of a Cosmopolitan Ethos in the Asia-Pacific (Memo #289, by Grégoire Legault)

• Thirsty Cities, Dying Rivers, Uncertain Futures: A Tale Too Often Told (Memo # 286, by Brett Dimond)

• Resolving the Senkaku/Diaoyu Island Dispute: The Limitations of International Law (Memo #272, by Keshav Kelkar)

• NGO Funding and Overhead Costs: Fallacies and Misconceptions (Memo #262, by Xue-Rong Jia)

• A Strategic Discovery: Rare Earth Elements Deposits in the DPRK (Memo #258, by  Marie-Pier Baril)

• Xiaomi: The Rise of an Indigenous Chinese Tech Industry (Memo #257, by Grégoire Legault)

• Visas, Medicine, Education: Feeling Chinese Soft Power in Mongolia (Memo #256, by Mendee Jargalsaikhan)

• Keeping Neighbours Closer: Beijing’s Geopolitical Pitch (Memo #249, by Mendee Jargalsaikhan)

• Enter the “Chinese Dream” (Memo #244 by Grégoire Legault)

• Time to Act: Climate Change Adaptation in the Philippines (Memo #243, by Sarah Thomas)

• The “Exotic” Minority in Western China:  Why Domestic Ethnic Tourism in China May be Doing More Harm than Good (Memo #241, by Brianna Botchwey)

• Downton Abbeystan: Why Central Asia is like Twentieth Century Upper Class England  (Memo #239 by Hannah Smith)

• Two Challenges for the Mumbai Eastern Freeway: Congestion and Equity (Memo #237, by Simon Harding)

• Tertiary Education in Mongolia: Tackling Mongolia’s Labor Deficit Problem (Memo #234, by Matthew Neckelmann)

• Cultural Objects and Tradition in Post-Socialist Mongolia (Memo #223, by Matthew King)

• Hong Kong’s Untenable Refugee Policies (Memo #232, by Tim Yu)

• India-Bangladesh Border Issue Unresolved (Memo #231 by Glen Hamburg)

• Where to Have a Baby: Reducing Maternal Mortality in West Java (Memo #226, by Christian Laugen)

• Urban Beekeeping: a new buzz in Asian Cities (Memo #224 by Hannah Smith)

• Amid Concern about Women’s Safety, New Delhi Seeks Female Auto-rickshaw Drivers (Memo #220, by Simon Harding)

• Unsettled Remains: Tensions over Unrepatriated Bodies from the Asia-Pacific War (Memo #219, by Lukasz Zablonski)

• The Politics of Mining in Mongolia and Burma/Myanmar (Memo #216 by Brandon Miliate)

• Overhauling China’s Organ Transplant System (Memo #213, by Josh Rudolph)

• ‘Normalizing’ same-sex marriage in US and gay rights in Japan (Memo #203, by Michael Oeckel)

• Mongolia: Gauging Inner Tensions over Railways (Memo #200, by Mendee Jargalsaikhan)

• China’s Liberalizing Impact on Global Commodity Markets (Memo #195, by Pascale Massot)

• Upcoming Canada-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement – Lessons Learned from Korea (Memo #192 by Justin Elavathil)

• China and the SCO – Influence and ‘Soft Power’ (Memo #169, by Mendee Jargalsaikhan)

• Indonesia’s Unconsolidated Democracy: Prelude to 2014 (Memo #163, by Matthew J. Bock)

• Relocating China’s Pollutive Industry: A “Double Pollution” Problem (Memo #143, by Matthew Gaudreau)

• Will “Nepal Investment Year” Solve its Hydropower Puzzle? (Memo #139, by Broghen Aitkin)

• Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Tribunal – Victims’ “Right to a Remedy” (Memo #129, by Theressa Etmanski)

• Missionaries Infiltrating North Korea: How Long Can the Hermit Kingdom Avoid Reform? (Memo #77, by Timothy S. Rich)

• China’s Next Revolution: Fracking in the East (Memo #76, by Margaret Skwara)

• Indonesian Domestic Workers’ Rights in Malaysia (Memo #75, by Angela Wong)

• New Taxation Rules: The First Steps to Building the Great Mall of China (Memo #46, by Vickie Yau)

• NGOs Prompt Report on 2002 Gujurat Incident (Memo #44, by Alifa Bandali)

• Chinese State Investments in Canada: How to Reduce Uncertainty on Both Sides of the Pacific (Memo #30, by Pascale Massot)

• Analysis of the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement between Taiwan and China (Memo #19, by Ted Chen)

• Broad Gauge versus Narrow Gauge: The Politics of Dimension in Mongolia’s Rail System (Memo #11, by Jargalsaikhan Mendee)