title: 'Getting the biosecurity architecture right' in the Asia-Pacific region.
abstract: This paper offers insights to enhance biosecurity in the Asia-Pacific by asking three questions. What risks/threats are significant in the region? Which security measures should be prioritized? What kind of regional--institutionalized and ad-hoc--arrangements should be implemented? By doing so the paper specifically focuses on two important aspects of biosecurity. Firstly, the issue of immediate capacity-building in the context of disaster relief, public health preparedness and biodefence. Secondly, the long-term preventive aspect, namely education and awareness-raising activities to more broadly promote responsible conduct in life science research in terms of laboratory accidents as well as the intentional use of biological agents for hostile purposes. In order to promote both aspects of biosecurity within the policy process, the paper analyses the strategic value of the US-Japan partnership in its efforts to build a biosecurity architecture in the Asia-Pacific region.
authors.affiliation: Pacific Forum - Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. m.minehata@bradford.ac.uk
authors.forename: Masamichi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Minehata
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001694:Biological Warfare / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004189:Disaster Planning; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D059232:Laboratory Personnel / Q000193:education; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000193:education; D012637:Security Measures / Q000592:standards*