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.…
Asia Small state security syndrome: understanding the Philippines’ National Security Strategy February 19, 2019 0 Written by Ananda Devi Domingo-Almase. My continuing research interest in the Philippines’ first ever publication of a National Security Strategy (NSS) in 2018 is driven…
Corruption Challenges to Modi October 8, 2018 0 Diego Maiorano With less than a year before the next general election, India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is facing the first serious challenge to his…
Bangladesh From MDGs to SDGs: where next for Bangladesh? September 4, 2018 0 By M Niaz Asadullah and Antonio Savoia Would you say that a country can reach any of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) if affected by…
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…
Elections The 2018 Pakistan Elections: Status Quo over Change July 31, 2018 0 Written by Mohammad Waseem. Given the alleged manipulation of the 2018 elections, how can one interpret the PTI’s leading position in terms of votes and…
Elections A ‘Dirty’ but Decisive Victory? Pakistan’s political landscape in the aftermath of the general elections 2018 July 30, 2018 0 Written by Yasser Kureshi & Zoha Waseem. Pakistan’s third consecutive general elections have been called the ‘dirtiest elections ever’. Although such ‘dirtying’ implies political engineering…
Corruption The implications of Najib Razak’s arrest for Malaysia: The good, the bad, and the ugly July 10, 2018 0 Written by Scott Edwards. Former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s arrest follows Malaysia’s historic general election, which saw the first change of government since independence. It…
Elections An Analysis of PTI’s Corruption Record May 21, 2018 0 Written by Khurram Shahzad Siddiqui Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Imran Khan on April 29, 2018 promised to bring radical changes to the country after the…
Elections Will Malaysia’s incumbent government fall into opposition hands? May 8, 2018 1 Written by Tricia Yeoh. Ruling incumbent Barisan Nasional (Barisan) has governed Malaysia since the country’s independence in 1957, despite attempts by different opposition parties at forming…
