Most are located in the Washington-NY-Boston belt on the East Coast, and there are also several heavyweight institutes in the San Francisco area which have well-established reputations in the fields of East Asian studies and Asia-Pacific security affairs.
其中多集中在東岸華府、紐約、波士頓三角地帶，西岸舊金山也有幾個重量級的研究中心，在東亞區域、太平洋安全領域享有盛名。