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

ACRONYM	LONG NAME	CATEGORY	A PART OF	COUNTRY

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APA	Asian Pacific American Studies	body	Michigan State U.	US
APAC	Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections	resource	British Library	UK
APACIC	Asian Pacific American Census Information Center	body	U. of Maryland	US
APARC	Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center	body	Stanford U.	US
APARC	Asia-Pacific-Americas Research Cluster	body	U. of California, Santa Cruz	US
APASPEC	Asian Pacific American Studies Program	program	Michigan State U.	US
APBC	Australia Philippines Business Council	body	---	Australia
APBC-PABC	Australia Philippine Business Council and Philippine Australia Business Council	body	---	Australia
APC	Asian Publishing Convention	meeting	---	---
APCCA	Asian and Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators	meeting	---	---
APCD	Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy	body	ANU	Australia
APCEIU	Asia Pacific Center for Education on International Understanding	body	UNESCO	---
APCICT	Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development	body	ESCAP	South Korea
APCS	Asia Pacific Cultural Studies	periodical	U. Auckland	NZ
APCSN	ANU Asian and Pacific Cultural Studies Network	group	ANU	Australia
APCSS	Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies	body	---	US
APCTT	Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology	body	ESCAP	India
APDC	Asian and Pacific Developing Centre	body	---	Malaysia
APDIP	Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme	body	United Nations	Thailand
APDR	Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution Research Program	program	IAR	Canada
APEBH	Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference	meeting	U. of Sydney	Australia
APECLIT	APEC Literature Database	resource	ASIA ROM	Australia
APECRIN	APEC Research Information Network	group	IAR	Canada
APEN	Asian Pacific Environmental Network	group	---	US
APETAU	Association of Professors of English and Translation at Arab Universities	group	---	Jordan
APEU	Asia-Pacific Economic Update	resource	U.S. Pacific Command, Camp Smith, Hawaii	US
APFC / APF Canada	Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada / Fondation Asie Pacifique du Canada	body	---	Canada
APFRN	Asia-Pacific Futures Research Network	group	---	Australia
APHD	Asian Partnership for Human Development	group	---	Thailand
APHERN	Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Network	group	APRIM	Australia
APHNC	Asia Pacific Health and Nutrition Centre	body	Monash U.	Australia
APIBC	Australian Pacific Islands Business Council	body	---	Australia
APIC	Asian and Pacific Islander Caucus of the National Education Association	group	---	US
APIC	Asia Pacific International College	body	---	Australia
APIEL NOW	Asian and Pacific Islander Education and Languages NOW	resource	---	US
APISA	Asian Political and International Studies Association	group	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia	Malaysia
APISR	Asian Political and International Studies Review	periodical	APISA	Malaysia
APLP	Asia Pacific Leadership Program	body	EWC	US
APLPJ	Asian Pacific Law and Policy Journal	periodical	U. of Hawaii	US
APL2C	Association for Persian Language, Linguistics and Computing	group	U. of Edinburgh	UK
APMCP	Asia Pacific Management Cooperative Program	program	Capilano College	Canada
APME	Asia Pacific MediaEducator	periodical	U. of Wollongong	Australia
APMRN	Asia Pacific Migration Research Network	group	ANU	Australia
APN	Asian Population Network	group	---	Singapore
APNA	Academy of the Punjab in North America	body	---	US
APNIC	Asia Pacific Network Information Center	body	---	Australia
APNGBC	Australian Papua New Guinea Business Council	body	---	Australia
APNTS	Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary	body	---	Philippines
APP	Asia Pacific Press	body	ANU	Australia
APP	Asia Policy Point (formerly: Japan Information Access Project, JIAP)	body	---	US
APP	Asia Past & Present Book Series	program	The Association for Asian Studies	US
APP	Asian Politics and Policy	periodical	---	US
APPAF	Asia-Pacific Public Affairs Forum	---	---	Taiwan
APPC	Asian-Pacific Postal College	body	---	Thailand
APPGC	All-Party Parliamentary Group on China	body	---	UK
APPREB	Asia/Pacific Cooperative Programme in Reading Promotion and Book Development	program	ACCU	Japan
APPU	Asian Pacific Postal Union	body	---	Thailand
APQ	Asia Pacific Queer	group	ANU	Australia
APR	Asia Pacific Reader	periodical	U. of Toronto	Canada
APR / CAAPR	Central Asia Agency of Political Research	body	---	Kazakhstan
APRF	Asia-Pacific Research Foundation	body	---	Taiwan
APRIM	Asia Pacific Research Institute	body	Macquarie U.	Australia
APRMF	Asia Pacific Regional Migration Forum	group	ANU	Australia
APRU	Asia-Pacific Research Unit	body	School of Humanities, U. Sains Malaysia, Penang	Malaysia
APRU	Association of Pacific Rim Universities	group	---	Singapore
APS	Asia Pacific Studies	body	U. Helsinki	Finland
APS	Dr. David Chu Programme in Asia Pacific Studies	program	U. of Toronto	Canada
APSA	Asia Pacific Sociological Association	group	---	Australia / Thailand
APSA	Arbeitsgemeinschaft fuer Pazifische Studien / Association for Pacific Studies	group	---	Germany
APSA	Asian Planning Schools Association	group	---	Hong Kong
APSARA	Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap	body	---	Cambodia
APSEG	Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government	body	ANU	Australia
APSI	Asian/Pacific Studies Institute	body	Duke U.	US
APSIG	Asia-Pacific Special Interest Group	group	Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)	Australia
APSNET	Austral Peace and Security Network	group	Nautilus Institute	US / Australia
APSS	Asia-Pacific Seminar Series	meeting	Australian Defence Force Academy	Australia
APSS	ANU Asia and Pacific Studies Society	group	Australian National U.	Australia
APT	Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art	program	Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art	Australia
APTS	Asia Pacific Theological Seminary	body	---	Philippines
APU	Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University	body	---	Japan
APW	Asia Pacific Week	program	CAP	Australia
APW	Asia Policy Weekly	periodical	APP	US
APW	Asia Pacific World: The Journal of the International Association for Asia Pacific Studies	periodical	IAAPS	Japan
APWN	Asia and Pacific Writers Network	group	---	Hong Kong
AR back
ARAL	Australian Review of Applied Linguistics	periodical	ALAA	Australia
ARAM	Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies	group	---	UK
ARC	Asia Research Center	body	Copenhagen Business School	Denmark
ARC	Asia Research Center	body	National U. of Mongolia	Mongolia
ARC	Asia Research Centre	body	Murdoch U.	Australia
ArchSoc	Auckland Archaeological Society	group	U. of Auckland	New Zealand
ARCM	Asian Research Center for Migration	body	Chulalongkorn U.	Thailand
ARCS	American Review of China Studies	periodical	ACPSS	US
ARENA	Asian Regional Exchange for Alternatives	program	---	South Korea
AREU	Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit	body	---	Afghanistan/Pakistan
ARF	Asian Resource Foundation	body	Bangkok	Thailand
ARG / AGA	Afghanistan Research Group / Arbeitsgemeinschaft Afghanistan	group	---	Germany
ARGO	Analisi e Ricerche Geopolitiche sull'Oriente / Geopolitical Analysis and Research on the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia	body	---	Italy
ARIAC	Association de Recherches et d'Informaton sur l'Asie Centrale	group	---	France
ARI	Asia Research Institute	body	NUS	Singapore
ARIC	Asia Regional Information Center	body	ADB	Philippines
ARIRIAB	Annual Report of The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University	periodical	IRIAB	Japan
ARISC	American Research Institute of the South Caucasus	body	---	US
AROSE	NBR's Asia Research Organization Search Engine	resource	NBR	US
ARIT	American Research Institute in Turkey	body	---	Turkey
ARMACAD	Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support	group	---	Armenia
ARRC	Asia-Pacific Regional Resource Center for Human Rights Education	body	---	Thailand
ARTI	Aceh Research Training Institute	body	U. of Melbourne	Australia
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AS	Academia Sinica	body	---	Taiwan
AS	Asian Studies	body	Pacific University, Oregon	US
ASAA	Asian Studies Association of Australia	group	---	Australia
ASAIHL	Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning	group	---	Thailand
ASAO	Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania	group	---	US
ASARC	Australia South Asia Research Centre	body	RSPAS	Australia
ASC	ASEAN Studies Centre	body	ISEAS	Singapore
ASC	Asian Studies Center	body	U. of Cambridge	UK
ASC	Asian Studies Center	body	U. of Pittsburgh	US
ASCJ	Asian Studies Conference Japan	meeting	Meiji Gakuin U.	Japan
ASCK	Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea	group	---	US
ASCM	Asian Seminary for Christian Ministries	body	---	Philippines
ASCN	Academic Swiss Caucasus Net	group	U. of Fribourg	Switzerland
ASCNK	APEC Study Center at Nankai University	body	Nankai U.	China
ASCSL	Association for Speakers of Chinese as a Second Language	group	--	UK
ASDP	Asian Studies Development Program	program	EWS	US
ASEA UNINET	ASEAN-European Academic University Network	group	---	Austria
ASEAS	Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies / Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fuer Suedostasienwissenschaften	periodical	SEAS	Austria
ASEASUK	Association for Southeast Asian Studies	group	---	UK
ASEF	Asia-Europe Foundation	body	---	Singapore
ASEM	Asia-Europe Meeting	meeting	IIAS	The Netherlands
ASEMUS	Asia-Europe Museum Network	group	---	Sweden
ASHA	Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology	group	---	Australia
ASI	Archaeological Survey of India	body	---	India
ASI	Asia Security Initiative	body	MacArthur Foundation	US
ASiA	Asian Studies in Amsterdam	body	U. of Amsterdam	The Netherlands
ASIA ROM	Social Sciences and Asia databases	resource	RMIT, Melbourne	Australia
ASIAC	Associazione per lo Studio in Italia dell'Asia centrale e del Caucaso / Italian Society for Central Asian and Caucasian Studies	group	---	Italy
ASIALEX	Asian Association for Lexicography	group	---	Singapore
AsianDOC	Asian Database Online Community	group	Ohio State U.	US
ASIANET	Asian Studies in Asia Network	group	ANU	Australia
ASIANET.FI	Finnish National University Network for East and Southeast Asian Studies	group	---	Finland
ASIANPA	Asian Philosophical Association	group	---	---
ASIANRES	ASIAN Resources: A Select Directory of Databases	resource	ASIA ROM	Australia
ASIAS	Australasian Society for Inner Asian Studies	group	---	Australia
ASILE	Australian Society of Indonesian Language Educators	group	U. of Sunshine Coast	Australia
ASIS	Icelandic Centre for Asian Studies	body	U. of Akureyri	Iceland
ASJ	Asiatic Society of Japan	group	---	Japan
ASJ	Gateway to Asian Studies in Japan	---	RICAS	Japan
ASJNA	Committee on the Academic Studies of Jainism in North America	group	---	US
ASK	Advanced Study of Khmer	program	CSEAS	US
AskEASL	Ask an East Asian Studies Librarian	resource	---	US
ASLI	Asian Law Institute	body	National U. of Singapore	Singapore
ASN	Asian Studies Center	body	Michigan State U.	US
ASN	Association for the Study of Nationalities	group	Columbia U.	US
ASN	Aziatische Studenten Nederland - Asian Student Network	group	---	The Netherlands
ASNET	Asian Studies Network - Network for Education/Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo	group	U. of Tokyo	Japan
ASNIC	Asian Studies Network Information Center	resource	U. of Texas	US
ASOPA	Australian School of Pacific Administration	body	---	Australia
ASOR	American Schools of Oriental Research	body	Boston U.	US
ASP	Armenian Studies Program	---	U. of Michigan	US
ASP	American Society of Papyrologists	group	---	US
ASPAC	Annual Conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast	meeting	AAS	US
ASPS	Association for the Study of Persianate Societies	group	---	US
ASR	Asian Studies Review	periodical	ASAA	Australia
ASRC	Asian Studies Research Collection	resource	Monash U.	Australia
ASRI	formerly Asian Studies Research Institute, now Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies (RIFIAS)	body	Indiana U.	US
ASrIA	Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia	group	---	Hong Kong
ASRL	formerly Asian Studies Research Library, now Asian Studies Research Collection (ASRC)	resource	Monash U.	Australia
ASSV / VASS	Academie des Sciences Sociales du Vietnam / Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences	body	---	Vietnam
ASWWWVL	Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library	resource	RSPAS	Australia
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ATA	Asian Theological Association	group	---	Philippines
ATBC	Australia Thailand Business Council	body	---	Australia
ATBC	Australia-Taiwan Business Council	body	---	Australia
ATD	Associazione Tibet Domani	group	---	Italy
ATJ	Association of Teachers of Japanese	group	U. of Colorado at Boulder	US
ATJ	Asian Theatre Journal	periodical	U. of Hawai'i Press	US
ATRF	Arafura Timor Research Facility	---	---	Australia
ATS	Asian Theological Seminary	body	---	Philippines
ATSEF	Arafura and Timor Seas Experts Forum	group	---	Australia
ATWS	Association of Third World Studies	group	---	US
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AU	Assumption University of Thailand	body	---	Thailand
AUA	American University of Armenia	body	---	Armenia
AUAF	American University of Afghanistan	body	---	Afghanistan
AUB	American University of Baku	body	---	Azerbaijan
AUB	American University of Beirut	body	---	Lebanon
AUCA	American University of Central Asia	body	---	Kyrgyzstan
AUD	American University in Dubai	body	---	Dubai
AUIS	American University of Iraq - Sulaimani	body	---	Iraq
AUK	American University of Kuwait	body	---	Kuwait
AUS	American University of Sharjah	body	---	United Arab Emirates
AUW	Asian University for Women		---	Bangladesh
AV back
ADA	Avestan Digital Archive	resource	U. of Salamanca	Spain
AVSAM	Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies	body	---	Turkey
AW back
AWAAZSAW	AWAAZ - South Asia Watch	resource	---	UK
AWAIR	Arab World And Islamic Resources and School Services	project	---	US
AWMC	Ancient World Mapping Center	body	U. of North Carolina	US
AWNN	Animal Welfare Network Nepal	body	---	---
AWORC	Asian Women's Resource Exchange	body	---	---
AY back
AYBC	Australia-Asia Youth Business Council	body	---	Australia
AYIEP	Australia-Indonesia Youth Exchange Program	program	AII	Australia
AYIS	American Institute for Yemeni Studies	body	---	US
AZ back
AZTA	American Zen Teachers Association	group	---	US

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