The Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD)

Since 1993, NEACD has held fourteen sessions, rotating hosting duties among the participating countries. NEACD is supported by the Department of Energy’s Office of Nonproliferation and National Security and organized by IGCC.

New Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD) Study Project

IGCC received $325,000 in funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to conduct a study project to assess the contributions and limitations of Asian track-two diplomacy after a decade of experiments. The assessment will look at the interaction of NEACD with the official six-party talks over the proposed two-year period. It will also examine the ten years of NEACD experience with track-two diplomacy and that of other track-two dialogues in Asia. The project runs until May 31, 2006.

Since NEACD’s founding in 1993, its strategic goal has been to create an institutional mechanism for dialogue and communication in order to minimize tension and build cooperation in the Northeast Asia region. The Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), a unique multilateral forum involving policy-level foreign ministry officials, defense ministry officials, military officers, and academics from China, Russia, North and South Korea, Japan, and the United States, has proven its value as the only ongoing channel of communication among the six governments in the region. NEACD keeps vital lines of communication open in Northeast Asia by providing regularly scheduled meetings in an informal setting, allowing participants to candidly discuss issues of regional security and cooperation. Since 1993, NEACD has held fifteen sessions, rotating hosting duties among the participating countries. NEACD is supported by the Department of Energy’s Office of Nonproliferation and National Security and organized by IGCC.

With the support of the Carnegie Corporation grant, IGCC has brought Tai Ming Cheung, a highly respected British expert on East Asian security and Chinese military, on campus as a research fellow to work on the project.