2nd Armitage Nye Report

On Feburary 16th, a very important and influential report on U.S. strategy in Asia is released. Title the U.S.-Japan Alliance: Getting Asia right through 2020, it is co-authored by former deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Dean of Kennedy School at Howard Joseph Nye.

If the first Armitage_Nye report-"The United States and Japan: Advancing Toward a Mature Partnership", released in October 2002, could be credited for successfully building a US-Japan alliance more closely tied than ever and comparable to the U.S.-UK alliance, the second report includes a bigger picture-U.S.-Japan alliance and how it will affect the Asia-Pacific region.

Billed as a bipartisan effort to map out U.S.'s policy towards Japan and Asia, it is worthy of closely reading. Download the report from CSIS website here.