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…
Belt and Road Initiative Are Russia and China revisionist states? June 11, 2019 0 Written by Jeanne L. Wilson. Image Credit: P5 Press Conference at the United Nations by United States Mission Geneva/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. In the past…
Activism Polarising Dissent: The constructed narrative of Singapore’s new ‘fake news’ law June 10, 2019 0 Written by Howard Lee and Terence Lee. Image Credit: singapore by Matt Madd/Flickr, Licence CC BY 2.0. On 8 May 2019, Singapore passed its fake news legislation.…
China Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area plan: The prospects for integration June 5, 2019 0 Written by Alan Smart. Image Credit: Hong Kong from Shenzhen by leniners/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. The Greater Bay Area (GBA) plan is an ambitious strategy…
Asian tigers Hong Kong’s balancing act: Fiscal conservatism, northbound financial flows and poverty June 5, 2019 0 Written by Damian Tobin. Image Credit: Hong Kong – 3 Giants in the Fog by D. Julien/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. Recent GDP data for Hong…
China Hong Kong: Neoliberal heaven or neoliberal nightmare? June 3, 2019 2 Written by Priscilla Roberts. Image Credit: Hong Kong 2 – Passerelle by D. Julien/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. Neoliberal economists, notably Milton Friedman and Friedrich A.…
Elections India election: how Narendra Modi won with an even bigger majority May 24, 2019 1 Written by Katharine Adeney This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Image credit: 10th BRICS summit…
Asia Parliamentary elections in Jammu and Kashmir: Will the result be a mosaic? April 29, 2019 2 Written by Navnita Chadha Behera. The Indian parliamentary elections in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) hold special significance amidst the national elections being held for 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…
