Category: Academic Articles
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Who Holds Development Expertise and Who Development Serves: Examining Clark Air Base through Local Memory
Introduction Located in the Philippines, Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base have historically…
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Rethinking Singaporean Interfaith Management: An Interview-Based Approach to Uncovering Singapore’s Accommodative Secularism
Keywords: Singapore; interfaith relations; secularism; Talal Asad; José Casanova; religious governance Abstract Interreligious tensions are…
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Living on the Margins: Stories of Created Periphery and Bare Life in Japan
Abstract This research does not attempt to give a full account of any one Pacific…
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From Resistance to Revolution: The Evolution of Anti-Colonial Struggles into Organized Nationalism in South Asia (Late 19th–Early 20th Century)
As the twentieth century came about, South Asia’s nineteenth-century anti-colonial struggles evolved into organized nationalist…
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Liberate Hong Kong: Nationalist Secession and the Localist Movement
Abstract I investigate Hong Kong’s localist movement, particularly its evolution from a cultural issue to…
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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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