About PASS About the Program in Asian Security Studies at Duke University.		Visting Scholars Program Information about the program and about our scholars
	Events Past and Upcoming events in the Raleigh/Durham area.		Links Links to other Asian and Global Security Study sites.
	Conferences and Symposiums Past and upcoming conferences and symposiums dealing with matters of Security.

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No problem is of greater importance to East Asian states today than ensuring the region's peace and stability. The Cold War's end has prompted the key powers in East Asia to reevaluate their national security objectives. In addition to general security concerns, three trouble spots -- the Taiwan Straits, the Korean Peninsula, and the South China Sea--are particularly destabilizing. Given the increasing importance of East Asia and the growing security concerns in this area, Duke University established the Program in Asian Security Studies (PASS) in 1998. PASS sponsors conferences, seminars and lectures to encourage critical research and discussion of East Asian security policy issues. It has recently inaugurated a new Korea Forum designed to promote a greater understanding of the significant cultural, social, economic and political contributions of Korea to East Asia and to the world.

Professor Emerson Niou is the director of the Program. Dr. Niou, Professor of Political Science at Duke University, received his Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of Texas at Austin and specializes in formal theory, international relations and East Asian politics. He is the coauthor of The Balance of Power (Cambridge University Press, 1989).