Asia-Pacific Not quite in Asia: Australia’s relationship with Asian football February 23, 2020 0 Picture Credit: ‘DSC06216’ by Nasya Bahfen/flickr; Licence: CC BY-ND 2.0. Written by Andy Fuller. The recent visit of Bali United to play against Melbourne Victory in the…
Asia The long read: Host communities and refugees in Southeast Asia: A workshop report December 19, 2019 0 Image Credit: Hue 1972 by manhai/ Flickr ; Licence: 2.0 Generic (CC By 2.0) Written by Itty Abraham. In May 2019 a workshop was convened at…
Asia-Pacific Pyongyang’s cycle of provocation and negotiation: A dispassionate analysis October 21, 2019 0 Image Credit: Pyongyang by Jen Morgan/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-ND 2.0. Written by Nah Liang Tuang and Shawn Ho. In a recent commentary entitled ‘Handshakes and Missiles:…
Asia-Pacific Chinese overseas students then and now: Lei Haizong and the myth of a Chinese liberal martyr July 2, 2019 0 Written by Xin Fan. Image Credit: Sun Comes Up Over the Bay Bridge by Thomas Hawk/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0. In 1926, 24-year-old Lei Haizong was studying at…
Asia Russian Diplomacy: rather a bad peace than a good quarrel June 11, 2019 0 Written by Olga Krasnyak. Image Credit: 11th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Rovaniemi by Ulkoministeriö/Flickr, licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Russia’s aspirations and diplomatic engagements in…
ASEAN Sub-groupings and a shifting role for ASEAN April 10, 2019 0 Written by Mathew Davies. Any long-term watcher of Southeast Asia knows that they have to be prepared to master a number of acronyms and opaque…
ASEAN Southeast Asia’s competitive sub-regionalism: Overlap and superfluity? April 8, 2019 0 Written by Jürgen Rüland. Southeast Asia is undeniably a success story of regionalism in the Global South. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was…
Asia-Pacific The illusion of personal diplomacy: Can Trump outsmart Kim in Hanoi after disappointment in Singapore? February 27, 2019 0 Written by Peter J. Li. The U.S.-North Korea (officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK) relations are arguably the most intractable of America’s foreign…
Asia-Pacific Can China exert ‘smart power’ in Southeast Asia through the BRI? January 28, 2019 0 Chun-Yi Lee The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which was initiated by President Xi Jinping in 2013, took further shape in March 2015. It is…
Asia-Pacific Antipathy in Sino-American relations: Will it disappear after Trump’s trade war? January 17, 2019 0 Written by Anthony H.F. Li. Since Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States in 2017, Sino-American relations seem to have reached their nadir.…
