APSA - Association of Pacific Studies - Hamburg

The Pacific News (PN), ISSN 1435-8360, is the semi-annual publication of the Association of Pacific Studies (Arbeitsgemeinschaft fuer Pazifische Studien e.V., APSA). It is published through the Department of Economic Geography of Hamburg University, Germany. The PN provides an interdisciplinary academic platform to discuss social, cultural, environmental and economic issues and developments in the Asia-Pacific region. The PN wants to give a publication platform for emerging scholars in particular. In order to uphold scientific standards, all publications in the PN are peer-reviewed.

APSA-Members receive the Pacific News complimentary as benefit of their membership.

Introducing APSA

The Association of Pacific Studies (Arbeitsgemeinschaft fuer Pazifische Studien e.V., APSA) was founded as inter-disciplinary academic network in 1987 at the Department of Geograpy of the Technical University Aachen/Germany. The first president of the APSA was Prof. Dr. Werner Kreisel, a geographer, who upheld this position until 2007. The reason for the establisment of the APSA was the common interest in the countries of the Asian-Pacific Region, at the beginning, particularly in the Pacific island states. Activities initiated, so far have been the implementation of workshops, conferences, public lecture series or poster exhibitions. To sustain these efforts a books series PAZIFIK-FORUM was started in 1990. In 1992, this was complemented by the publication of the semi-annual journal PACIFIC NEWS (PN). The latter has developed into the major activity of APSA in recent years.

Above all, the APSA sees its role as one the most important science-based networks in Germany for people who are fascinated by the Asian-Pacific region and are interested in academic exchange.

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