Democracy How far can momentum take Rahul Gandhi’s Congress? January 16, 2019 0 Written by Andrew Whitehead. The Indian National Congress is entering an election year with that most valuable of political commodities: momentum. The party’s performance in…
Cambodia The Spiral Repetitions of Cambodia’s 2018 General Election August 9, 2018 0 Written by Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim. The Marxian observation that historical events repeat “first as tragedy, then as farce” identifies a particular type of spiral repetition…
Pakistan Imran Khan’s battles have only just begun, after Pakistan’s ‘dirtiest election’ July 30, 2018 0 Written by Katharine Adeney. The votes cast in Pakistan’s election are still being counted (or rigged, as some allege). But it is already clear that Imran Khan,…
Burma/Myanmar Malaysia’s election: Game changer in the South China Sea? May 7, 2018 0 Written by Adam Yusoff. As Malaysians prepare to vote in the general elections on 9 May 2018, how the rival coalition parties, Barisan Nasional (BN)…
Uncategorized Making Japan great again: Shinzo Abe’s landslide election win December 2, 2017 0 Written by Fatima-Zohra Er-Rafia. On 22 October, Japan re-elected Shinzo Abe, handing the Jiminto (Liberal Democratic Party) and its junior coalition partner Komeito more than…
Politics Hong Kong Democracy: Beijing’s policy towards the pro-democracy camp May 29, 2017 0 Written by Joseph Y. S. Cheng. In the initial years after Hong Kong’s return to the Motherland in 1997, the Chinese authorities attempted to show…
China China in the US presidential election September 27, 2016 1 Written by Allen Carlson. In a normal American presidential election cycle China is not usually a focal point of debate. When the country does come…
Taiwan The Unifying Themes Behind ‘Black Island’ and ‘The Convenient Illusion of Peace’ February 4, 2016 0 Written by J. Michael Cole I distinctly remember the feeling that something had shifted, that a new, undefined force had installed itself in Taiwan. It…
Taiwan Contradictions facing President Tsai Ing-wen January 26, 2016 0 Written by Linda Gail Arrigo. Tsai Ing-wen’s election landslide with 56% of the popular vote, nearly double that of the KMT’s Eric Li-luan Chu at 31%,…
Taiwan Undoing An Undemocratic Anachronism: It’s Time To Elect Taiwan’s Premier January 20, 2016 2 Written by Ben Goren. January 16th 2016 turned out to be a very good day for Asia’s most robust, and well-functioning, democracy. Taiwan went peacefully…
