Acronyms Used by Asian / Pacific Studies' Scholars:
a Dictionary

ACRONYM	ENTITY	A PART OF	COUNTRY

M

| MA | MB | MC | MD | ME | MF | MI | MJ | MO | MP | MR | MS | MU | MV | top |

MA back
MABC	Malaysia Australia Business Council	---	Australia
MACASBE	Macau Association of Business Ethics	MRI	Macao/China
MAI	Monash Asia Institute	Monash U.	Australia
MAKAIAS	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute Of Asian Studies, Kolkata	---	India
MAP	Maison Asie Pacifique	U. de Provence	France
MAP	Medieval Association of the Pacific	---	US
MAPEAL	Macao Association for the Promotion of Exchange between Asia-Pacific and Latin America		Macao/China
MARAAS	Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies	AAS	Japan
MARC	Modern Asia Research Centre	U. Geneva	Switzerland
MARC	Richard F. Taitano Micronesia Area Research Center	U. of Guam	US
MARG	Media-Asia Research Group	Curtin U. of Technology	Australia
MARLC	Melbourne Asian Research Libraries Consortium	---	Australia
MB back
MBRAS	Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society	---	Malaysia
MC back
MCA	Muslim Civilisations Abstracts	ISMC	UK
MCAA	Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs	Washington U. in St. Louis	US
MCJLE	Melbourne Centre for Japanese Language Education	Monash U.	Australia
MCLC	Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center	Ohio State U.	US
MCPA	The Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs	---	US
MD back
MDRC	Mongolian Development Research Center	---	Mongolia
ME back
MEA	Study Group for Musics of East Asia	---	Taiwan
MEAA	Museum of East Asia Art	---	UK
MEARC	Modern East Asia Research Centre	Leiden U.	The Netherlands
MEAS	Middle Eastern and African Studies	U. Alberta	Canada
MEC	Middle East Center	U. Pennsylvania	US
MEC	Middle East Center	U. of Washington	US
MEC	Middle East Center for Peace, Culture, and Development	Georgia State U.	US
MEC	Middle East Center	U. of Utah	US
MECA	Middle East & Central Asia Politics, Economics, and Society Conference	U. of Utah	US
MECACS	Institute of Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies	U. St. Andrews	UK
MEF	Malaysian Employers Federation	---	Malaysia
MEF	Middle East Forum	---	US
MEF	Mount Everest Foundation	---	UK
MEI	Middle East Institute	---	US
MEI	The Middle East Institute	Columbia U.	US
MELCOM	Middle East Libraries Committee	---	UK
MEIS	Research and Educational Project for Middle East and Islamic Studies	Tokyo U. of Foreign Studies (TUFS)	Japan
MEISP	Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program	Indiana U.	US
MEM	Middle East Medievalists	Southern Connecticut State U.	US
MEMP	Middle East Microform Project	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	US
MEMRI	Middle East Media Research Institute	---	US
MEMRI TV	Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitor Project	MEMRI	US
MENALIB	Middle East Virtual Library	U. Halle	Germany
MENAFN	Middle East and North Africa Financial Network	---	---
MENARG	Middle East and North Africa Research Group	U. Gent	Belgium
MENIC	Middle East Network Information Centre	U. of Texas	US
MERC	Middle East Research Competition	---	---
MERIA	Middle East Review of International Affairs	IDC Herzliya	Israel
MERIP	Middle East Research and Information Project	---	US
MERJ	Middle East Research Journals Project	---	US
MERO	Middle East Report Online	MERIP	US
MES	Department of Middle Eastern Studies	U. of Texas at Austin	US
MESA	Middle East Studies Association	---	US
MESARC	Middle East & South Asia Research Cluster	U. of California, Davis	US
MESAS	Middle eastern and South Asian Studies	Emory U.	US
MESC	Middle East Studies Center	U. Ghent	Belgium
MESC	Middle Eastern Studies Center	Ohio State U.	US
MESH	Middle East Strategy at Harvard	Harvard U.	US
MF back
MFEA	Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities	---	Sweden
MI back
MIALS	Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies	U. Melbourne	Australia
MIDEO	Melanges de l'Institut Dominicaine des Etudes Orientales du Caire	IDEO	Egypt
MIER	Malaysian Institute of Economic Research	---	Malaysia
MII / IIM	Macau International Institute / Instituto Internacionale Macau	---	Macao/China
MINPAKU	National Museum of Ethnology	---	Japan
MIPP	Microfilming of Indian Publications Project	DSAL	US
MJ back
MJF	Maison Franco-Japonaise / French-Japanese House	---	Japan
MJHW	Modern Japanese History Workshop	Waseda U.	Japan
MO back
MOA	Korean/English Parrallel Concordance	Monash U.	Australia
MOL	Monsoon On Line	Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology	India
MP back
MPAC	Muslim Public Affairs Council	---	US
MPAJ	Muslim Public Affairs Journal	MPAC	US
MR back
MRI	Macau Ricci Institute	---	Macao/China
MS back
MSSP	Micronesia and South Pacific Program	U. of Oregon, Eugene	Macao/China
MU back
MUCMENAS	Macquarie University: Centre for Middle East and North African Studies	Macquarie U.	Australia
MV back
MVCLC	Morphological Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus	---	---

N

| NA | NB | NC | ND | NE | NG | NI | NJ | NK | NL | NM | NN | NO | NP | NR | NS | NT | NV | NW | NY | NZ | top |

NA back
NAAAP	National Association of Asian American Professionals	---	US
NAATA	National Asian American Telecommunications Association	---	US
NACS	Nordic Association for China Studies	---	Finland
NAEC	Northeast Asia Economic Conference	ERINA	Japan
NAECJK	North America and Europe East Asian Collection Database	CEAL	US
NAI	The National Archives of India	---	India
NAJAKS	Nordic Association for Japanese and Korean Studies	---	Denmark
NAJS	Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society	CEAS	---
NAPABA	National Asian Pacific American Bar Association	---	US
NAPES	National Asia Pacific Economic and Scientific Database	ANU	Australia
NAPH	National Association of Professors of Hebrew	---	US
NAS	National Archives of Singapore	---	Singapore
NASA	Nordic Association for South Asian Studies	---	Norway
NASEAS	Nordic Association of Southeast Asian Studies	---	Denmark
NATMO	National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation	---	India
NATSA	North American Taiwan Studies Association	---	US
NB back
NBN	Niue Business News	---	Niue
NBR	National Bureau of Asian Research	---	US
NC back
NCC	North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources	U. Pittsburgh	US
NCEEER	National Council for Eurasian and East European Research	---	US
NCEIS	National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies	U. of Melbourne	Australia
NCJLT	National Council of Japanese Language Teachers	---	US
NCNK	National Committee on North Korea	---	US
NCOLR	National Council on Orientalist Library Resources	---	UK
NCSAS	National Centre for South Asia Studies	Monash U.	Australia
NCTA	National Consortium for Teaching about Asia	---	US
ND back
NDAP	National Digital Archives Program, Taiwan	Academia Sinica	Taiwan
NDL	National Diet Library	---	Japan
NE back
NEA	Northeast Asia Program	RSPAS	Australia
NEAAS	New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies	AAS	Japan
NEAC	The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies	AAS	US
NEALRC	National East Asian Languages Resource Center	Ohio State U	US
NEAS	Near East Archaeological Society	Andrews U.	US
NEASIA	Nukleo de Estudos Asiaticos	Universidade de Brasilia	Brasil
NEAT	Network of East Asian Think-tanks	---	Japan
NECEF	Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada	---	Canada
NELC	Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations	Harvard U.	US
NELC	Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations	Yale U.	US
NELC	Near Eastern Languages and Cultures	Indiana U.	US
NELC	Near Eastern Languages and Cultures	OI	US
NELC	Near Eastern Languages and Cultures	US
NELC	Near Eastern Languages and Civilization	U. of Washington	US
NES	Near Eastern Studies	U. of Arizona	US
NES	Near Eastern Studies	U. of Michigan	US
NG back
NGJS	Nederlands Genootschaap voor Japanse Studien	---	The Netherlands
NGMCP	Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project (formerly: Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project, NGMPP)	NRC	Germany Nepal
NI back
NIAP	National Institute for Asia and the Pacific	ANU	Australia
NIAS	Nordic Institute of Asian Studies	---	Denmark
NIAS	National Institute of Advanced Studies	---	India
NIAS-KNAW	Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences	---	The Netherlands
NIJL	National Institute of Japanese Literature	---	Japan
NINO	Netherlands Institute for the Near East	Leiden U.	The Netherlands
NIRA	National Institute for Research Advancement	---	Japan
NIRIM	National Integration and Regionalism in Indonesia and Malaysia	Australian Defence Force Academy	Australia
NIT	Namgyal Institute of Tibetology	---	India
NJ back
NJECD	NTC / Kenkyusha New Japanese-English Character Dictionary	---	Japan
NK back
NKIDP	North Korea International Documentation Project	Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars	US
NKR	North Korean Review	The U. of Detroit	US
NL back
NLDC	National Library and Documentation Centre	---	Sri Lanka
NM back
NMELRC	National Middle East Language Resource Center	Brigham Young U.	US
NMES	Near and Middle Eastern Studies	U. of Oxford	UK
NMM	National Mission for Manuscripts	---	India
NN back
NNCS	Nordic Network for Chinese Studies	---	---
NO back
NOFSA	Norsk Forum for Sor-Asia	Oslo U.	Norway
NONESA	Nordic Newsletter for Southeast Asian Studies	NASEAS	Denmark
NOUS-IS	National Online Undergraduate Seminar - Indonesian Studies	U. of Sunshine Coast / Flinders U.	Australia
NP back
NPT	New Perspectives on Turkey	Bogazici U.	Turkey
NR back
NRC	Nepal Research Centre	Universitaet Hamburg	Germany / Nepal
NRI	Nomura Research Institute	---	Japan
NRI	Needham Research Institute	Cambridge U.	UK
NS back
NSA	Nepal Studies Association	---	US
NSC	Nepal Study Center	U. New Mexico	US
NSE	National Stock Exchange of India	---	India
NT back
NTA	Nusa Tenggara Association	---	Australia
NTS-Asia	Consortium of Non-Traditional Security Studies in Asia	RSIS	Singapore
NTSC	National Thai Studies Centre	ANU	Australia
NV back
NVOS	Nederlandse Vereniging voor Oceanie Studies	---	The Netherlands
NW back
NWO	Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek	---	The Netherlands
NWRCSEAS	Northwest Regional Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies	IAR	Canada
NY back
NYCAS	New York Conference on Asian Studies	AAS	Japan
NZ back
NZASIA	New Zealand Asian Studies Society	---	New Zealand
NZDL	New Zealand Digital Library Project	---	New Zealand
NZETC	New Zealand Electronic Text Centre	---	New Zealand
NZJAS	New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies	NZASIA	New Zealand
NZSA	New Zealand Studies Association (formerly: New Zealand Study Group)	---	UK
NZSG	New Zealand Study Group	---	UK

O

| OA | OB | OC | OD | OG | OH | OI | OM | OP | OR | OS | OT | OW | OY | top |

OA back
OAC	l'Osservatorio sull'Asia Centrale / Observatory on Central Asia	CIRPET	Italy
OAR	Organization for Asian Research	---	US
OAS	Ostasiatisches Seminar der Universitaet Zuerich	U. of Zurich	Switzerland
OAS	Organization for Asian Studies	Waseda U.	Japan
OASIES	Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies	---	US
OB back
OBIV	Foundation for Middle East and Balkan Studies	---	Turkey
OC back
OCHJS	Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies	U. of Oxford	UK
OCIS	Oceanic Conference on International Studies	U. of Queensland	Australia
OCIS	Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies	U. of Oxford	UK
OCREECAS	Oberlin Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies	Oberlin College	US
OD back
ODDDA	OWTRAD Dromographic Digital Data Archives	OWTRAD	Australia
OG back
OGEA	Online Guide East Asia	Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin	Germany
OGSAA	Oslo-Goeteborg School of Asian and African Studies	---	Norway/Sweden
OH back
OHC	Oral History Centre	National Archives of Singapore	Singapore
OI back
OI	Oriental Institute	U. of Chicago	US
OIC	Organization of the Islamic Conference	---	Saudi Arabia
OIOC	Oriental and India Office Collections	British Library	UK
OM back
OMPA	Oceania Marist Province Archives	---	Fiji
OP back
OPEC	Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries	---	---
OR back
ORF	Observer Research Foundation	---	India
Orientalthane.com	Institute for Oriental Study, Thane	---	India
OS back
OSA	Oriental Society of Australia	U. of Sydney	Australia
OSPG	Oesterreichisch Suedpazifische Gesellschaft	U. of Vienna	Austria
ØRNAST	Øresund Network of Asian Studies	Lund U.	Sweden
OT back
OTAC	Observatorio del Tibet y Asia Central	Universitat de Barcelona	Spain
OTL	Online Tamil Lexicon	IITS	Germany
OW back
OWTRAD	Old World Traditional Trade Routes Project	www.ciolek.com	Australia
OY back
OYCF	Overseas Young Chinese Forum	---	US

P

| PA | PB | PC | PD | PE | PG | PH | PI | PM | PN | PO | PP | PR | PS | PT | PU | PV | PW | top |

PA back
PACA	Pacific & Asian Communication Association	---	South Korea and US
PACLII	Pacific News Agency Service	U. of South Pacific	Fiji
PACNEWS	Pacific News Agency Service	---	US
PACREIP	Pacific Regional Economic Integration Programme	---	Fiji
PAFTAD	Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series	APSEG	Australia
PAH	Division of Pacific & Asian History	RSPAS	Australia
PAIR	Portal to Asian Internet Resources	U. of Wisconsin	US
PAKBO	Pakistan Bibliographical Organization	---	Pakistan
PAMM	Inaugural Philippines-Australia Ministerial Meeting	---	Australia
PAR	Program on Australasian Research	IAR	Canada
PARADISEC	Pacific And Regional Archive for DIgital Sources in Endangered Cultures	---	Australia
PARC	Palestinian American Research Center	---	US
PASOLS	Pacific Area Senior Officer Logistics Seminar	---	US
PASSIA	Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs	---	Israel
PB back
PBRC	Pacific Basin Research Center	Soka U. of America	US
PC back
PCAPS	Program on Canada-Asia Policy Studies	IAR	Canada
PCMCS	Program in Chinese Media and Communication Studies	Duke U.	US
PCRC	Pacific Concerns Resource Centre	---	Fiji
PD back
PDD	The Pacific Development Directory	---	New Zealand
PE back
PEB	Pacific Economic Bulletin	ANU	Australia
PECC	Pacific Economic Cooperation Council	---	---
PEIA	Prosopography of Early Islamic Administration	JPP	Israel
PG back
PGIAR	Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology	---	Sri Lanka
PH back
PHA	Pacific History Association	---	---
PHCWP	Princeton-Harvard China & the World Program	Princeton U.	US
PI back
PIALA	Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives	U. of Guam	US
PIANGO	Pacific Islands Association of Non-Governmental Organisations	---	Fiji
PIATS	Proceedings of the International Association of Tibetan Studies	THDL	US
PICSA	Program in Inter-Cultural Studies in Asia	IAR	Canada
PIDP	Pacific Islands Development Program	East-West Center	US
PIDS	Philippine Institute for Development Studies	---	Philippines
PIERC	Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center	U.S. Geological Survey	US
PIIA	Pakistan Institute of International Affairs	---	Pakistan
PIMA	Pacific Islands Museums Association / Association des Musees des Iles du Pacifique	---	Vanuatu
PIMS	Pacific Islands Monograph Series	U. Hawaii	US
PIPS	Pak Institute for Peace Studies	---	Pakistan
PIPSA	Pacific Islands Political Studies Association	---	Australia
PIPSS	The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies	---	UK/France
PISAI	Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi ed'Islamistica	---	Italy
PITA	Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association	---	Fiji
PM back
PMJS	Premodern Japanese Studies	Meiji Gakuin U.	Japan
PMW	Pacific Media Watch	---	Fiji
PMW	Palestinian Media Watch	---	Israel
PN back
PNC	Pacific Neighborhood Consortium	Academia Sinica	Taiwan
PNHS	Philippine National Historical Society	---	Philippines
PNOIS	Phillippine National Observatory on the Information Society	---	Philippines
PO back
PolyU	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	---	China
PP back
PPJ	People's Plan Japonesia	---	Japan
PPP	Pacific People's Partnership	---	Canada
PR back
PRA	Pacific Research Archives	ANU	Australia
PRC	Pacific Research Collections	ANU	Australia
PRDLA	Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance	---	Hong Kong
PREL	Pacific Resources for Education and Learning	---	US
PRI	Policy Research Institute	Ministry of Finance	Japan
PRIDE	Pacific Regional Initiatives for the Delivery of basic Education	U. of the South Pacific	Fiji
PRISM	Pacific Regional Information SysteM	SPC	New Caledonia
PRISM	Pacific Roundtable on Industry, Society and Management	---	US
PROMAP	Projet de Documentation et de recherche sur les missionnaires en Asie-Pacifique	U. de Provence	France
PS back
PSAA	Philippines Studies Association Australasia	ASAA	Australia
PSCJ	Philippine Studies Conference of Japan	---	Japan
PSCO	Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins	---	US
PSD	Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project	U. of Pennsylvania	US
PSI	Pacific Studies Initiative	U. of Hawaii	US
PSWWWVL	Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library	RSPAS	Australia
PT back
PTC	The Pacific Theological College	---	Fiji
PU back
PUKAR	Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research, Mumbai	---	India
PV back
PVS	Polynesian Voyaging Society	---	US
PW back
PWTN	People's Watch - Tamil Nadu	---	India

R

| RA | RC | RE | RF | RG | RH | RI | RM | RS | RU | top |

RA back
RAD	Russian Analytical Digest	RES	Switzerland
RAI	Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale	---	---
RAJ	Russian Association of Japanologists	---	Russia
RAL	U. of Auckland	New Zealand
RASA	Recent Art of South Asia	---	UK
RAS	Royal Asiatic Society	---	UK
RAS-KB	Royal Asiatic Society - Korea Branch	RAS	South Korea
RASHKB	Royal Asiatic Society - Hong Kong Branch	RAS	HK
RAS SL	Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka	RAS	Sri Lanka
RATS	Regional Antiterrorism Structure	SCO	---
RC back
RCCPB	Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business	EASC	US
RCMRC	Research Center on Metropolitan Regions of China	Shanghai Jiao Tong U.	China
RE back
REDIAO	Red de Investigacion Iberoamericana en Estudios de Asia Oriental	---	Spain
REECA	Russian, East European, and Central Asian Collections	CREECA	US
REP	Revista Espanola del Pacifico	---	Spain
RES	Russian and Eurasian Security Network	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
RET	Revue d'Etudes Tibetaines	U. of Cambridge	UK
RETL	Reeducation Through Labor	---	China
RF back
RFA	Radio Free Asia	---	US
RG back
RGICS	Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies	Rajiv Gandhi Foundation	India
RI back
RIAP	Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific	U. of Sydney	Australia
RICAS	Research & Information Center for Asian Studies	U. of Tokyo	Japan
RIFIAS	Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies	Indiana U.	US
RII	Rethinking Religion in India	---	Belgium
RIJS	Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies	Harvard U.	US
RIMAS	Rotterdam Institute of Modern Asian Studies	Erasmus U., Rotterdam	Netherlands
RIPS	Research Institute for Peace and Security	---	Japan
RISA	Religion in South Asia Section of the American Academy of Religion	---	US
RISA-L	Official email list of RISA	RISA	US
RJ back
RJSS	Romanian Journal of Japanese Studies	---	Romania
RM back
RMAP	Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program	RSPAS	Australia
RS back
RSEA	Committee on Regional Studies - East Asia	Harvard U.	US
RSG	Rajasthan Studies Group	Columbia U.	US
RSIS	S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies	Nanyang Technological U.	Singapore
RSPAS	Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies	ANU	Australia
RU back
RU-CAAS	Rikkyo University Centre for Asian Area Studies	Rikkyo U.	Japan
RUCTA	Research Unit on Cultures and Technologies in Asia	Monash U.	Australia

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