Activism The party-list system in the Philippines: Is it better or worse for democracy? July 4, 2019 0 Written by Jorge Villamor Tigno. Image Credit: Satur Ocampo & Liza Maza file candidacy for Senate by Victor Villanueva/CC; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The party-list system in the…
Activism Are social media destroying democracy in Southeast Asia? March 14, 2019 0 Written by Ross Tapsell. Recent literature has argued that social media use encourages authoritarianism. Ronald J. Deibert’s January 2019 article in Journal of Democracy argues…
Burma/Myanmar Myanmar nationalism: The monks, the military and the Muslims March 8, 2019 0 Written by Mikael Gravers. Is there a specifically Buddhist nationalism in Myanmar? True, there are many nationalist monks, but Buddhism is only one element in…
Identity politics Chinese ethno-nationalism in Singapore: Demography, culture and power March 7, 2019 3 Written by Michael D. Barr. Ethnic Chinese have formed a demographic majority in Singapore since the census of 1849, and today they comprise 74.3 per…
Federalism India's Federal Success: Recognition is the Way Forward October 10, 2017 18 Written by Katharine Adeney. Ethnofederalism (where the boundaries of at least some of the federal units coincide with ‘ethnic’ boundaries) has been contested as a solution…
Food Security The Beef Ban in India April 27, 2017 0 Written by Richardson Wilson Food is at the epicentre of human life. It is not only essential for survival but the need to have access…
India Cow Protection, Hindu Revivalism, and Constitutional Politics in India and Nepal November 16, 2015 0 Written by Mara Malagodi. India and Nepal are the only two countries in the world where the overwhelming majority of the population are followers of Hinduism.…
India Hindu nationalism is rising under the BJP and Modi November 13, 2015 0 Written by Sajeda Momin. When I returned to India at the beginning of October after my last visit to London, two very dear friends asked…
India The Burden of Majoritarianism November 12, 2015 0 Written by Gurpreet Mahajan. India has never been a completely neutral state. So what has changed in the last 18 months? The BJP led NDA government…
India Selling India, Imagining Bharat November 11, 2015 0 Written by James Chiriyankandath. As Narendra Modi completes an year and a half as India’s prime minister with more globetrotting (this time to the UK…
