Berkeley APEC Study Center (BASC)

If you are interested in the business and politics behind China's technology sector, check out BASC RA Christine Jiang's two-part article.

The agenda for our April 11th conference on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is now out. Take a look at the link below.

BASC is proud to announce our two new Project Directors: Jieun Kim and Andrew Reddie. Learn more about them here!

We're hosting a conference on 11 April 2015 about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union here at UC Berkeley!

We're happy to announce the newest member of our Advisory Board: Lily Bradley. She brings a wealth of experience from the health sector and was the Presidential Innovation Fellow at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Welcome Lily!

In 2013, we hosted two conferences on "Industrial Policy in the Financial Crisis Era," where scholars from around the world examined a wide range of national sectors in cross-country analyses. Many of these findings have been featured in the latest Special Issue of Business and Politics. Take a look today!

Did you know that our 2011 conference, "China Rising: EU and US Responses to a Changing World Order" is now a book? Take a look today!

The weather over the San Francisco Bay is beautiful. What a sight from the BASC office!

Interested in learning about the latest from BASC? Check out our Winter 2014/15 Newsletter. There are articles on Industrial Policy in the Post-Crisis Era, China's Western Region, Sub-Saharan Africa's Oil Trade with China and "Chinese Railway Diplomacy" in Southeast Asia. http://basc.berkeley.edu/pdf/Newsletters/winter2014:15.pdf

BASC Researcher, Katheryn Lee, argues that the Japanese and Korean governments need to actively support SMEs and entrepreneurship in order to solve the college graduate unemployment crisis.

BASC researcher Christopher Hussey traveled through Myanmar this summer, and is currently writing his honors thesis on Southeast Asian tourism. Check out his take on Myanmar's tourist industry in the latest BASC Blog:

Jake Lerner blogs on cyber crime and government responses in Southeast Asia.