Regional Strategies (Middle East and Asia)
Session 6
May 21-22, 2003
Meeting Notes (pdf 59 KB)—Summarized by Michael Kraig, Ph.D.
Asia — Muthiah Alagappa, East-West Center Washington
Northeast Asia and China — Jonathan Pollack, Naval War College
South Asia — Michael Kraig, The Stanley Foundation
What is the ideal US strategic role in those regions of the world where strategic threats (WMD and missile proliferation) are combined with transnational terrorist actors, economic underdevelopment, resource competition, and heated ideological and military conflicts both within and across borders? How should the United States approach those "middle powers" who are increasingly demanding a greater role in the economic, political, and military management of their areas—Iran, India, China? Should the United States take an active, "forward-deployed," hegemonic role or a more cooperative approach of comanagement of regional problems on a multilateral and bilateral basis? And how do these regional approaches link up with the overall US global strategy for national security?