Demography Harbingers of democracy May 9, 2019 0 Written by Shubhra Seth and Safa Ameera Rahim. An investment in knowledge pays high dividends for young citizens and it is an important tool for…
China Is China’s cyber-espionage a military game-changer? May 7, 2019 0 Written by Andrea Gilli and Mauro Gilli. According to an internal Navy review, China has the U.S. Navy “under cyber siege,” and Navy suppliers and contractors struggle to…
Beef ban Caste calculations and curry leaves: Dalits and the 2019 elections April 17, 2019 0 Written by Hugo Gorringe and Karthikeyan Damodaran. Dalit votes could be decisive in the 2019 general elections in India. One of the pillars of the…
Congress The 2019 Indian General Elections: The consolidation of BJP dominance? April 16, 2019 0 Written by Wilfried Swenden. The race has started, as on 11 April 2019 approximately 900 million Indian voters were called to cast their vote in…
Elections The dynamics of social media and the Indian Elections 2019 April 12, 2019 0 Written by Amit Prakash. Everything about the Indian elections is grand: about 900 million electors cast their vote over a month-and-a-half to elect 543 members…
Development Modi and the watchmen: India’s national security election April 10, 2019 0 Written by Ian Hall. Barely a couple of months ago, it looked as though Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies were going…
Asia Carole Spary in Conversation with Sunetra Choudhury April 8, 2019 0 Sunetra Choudhury is a Delhi-based journalist who was, until recently, political editor with NDTV, a major national news channel based in Delhi. She is also…
Bangladesh Towards a better performing and more ethical civil service in Bangladesh March 22, 2019 0 Written by Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, Taiabur Rahman, Kazi Maruful Islam, Christian Schuster and Kim Sass Mikkelsen. Effective governance is essential for economic development and hence it…
Cambodia Southeast Asia – drifting towards Digital Authoritarianism? March 15, 2019 0 Written by Jason Abbott. In the West, the principal concern of most digital activists relates to privacy issues surrounding the collection of data by governments…
Civil society Indonesia’s quest for tolerance: Everyday social media talk and spreading the ‘virus of peace’ March 14, 2019 0 Written by Dayana Lengauer. Tolerance in majority Muslim Indonesia is associated, among other things, with the national motto ‘unity in diversity’, state-recognised religious pluralism, and…
