Category: Academic Articles
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Steering Through Troubled Waters: Filipino Foreign Policy in the South China Sea
Since 2023, the South China Sea, a 3.5 million km² body of water south of…
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Development as Dispossession: Ethnic Exclusion and State Power in Laos
Abstract This paper examines how state-led development policies in Laos perpetuate ethnic exclusion and structural…
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Progress, Preservation, and Transition to a Civilizing Mission: British Colonial Rule in South Asia from the late 18th-century to the mid-19th-Century
This paper is written by Siya Duggal, a Guest Author at SYNERGY. ABSTRACT This article…
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Clash of Titans: Rethinking the Sino-American Rivalry
Napoleon’s foresight that China’s awakening would “shake the world” has indeed materialized. Over the past…
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The Hidden Workforce: Exploiting Undocumented Migrants in Malaysian Plantations
In this essay, I examine the effect of indenturization and illegalization of migrant workers from…
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Understanding Third-World Nationalism as an Extension of the Indonesian Identity
For centuries prior up until the end of the Second World War, International Relations could…
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Southeast Asia On A Hanging Thread The Vitality Of Collective Action On The Mekong River
To what extent are water security issues threatening the Mekong River and how are the…
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China’s Power Projection in Southeast Asia: Where Do Small Countries Assert Agency amid Great Power Rivalry?
By analyzing how Southeast Asian countries navigate and thrive under the competing influences of…
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Managing the Optics of Educational Equality: An Analysis of China’s Ban on Private Tutoring
Abstract: Over the past decades, Chinese parents have come to view private tutoring as a…
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Local ka ba o AFAM: The Impact of Dubbing the 1994 March in Manila as “Stonewall Manila.”
Abstract: On June 26, 1994, the Progressive Organization of Gays in the Philippines (PROGAY Philippines),…
