Abstract: Relations between Canada and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have been and remain unique. This essay will argue that Canadian governments maintained relatively consistent approaches to relations with China between 1970 and 2006. […]
ABSTRACT With the increasing movement toward a Taiwan-based politics, there has also been a simultaneous fixation on the role of the state of the Republic of China in Taiwanese politics. In conversation with the normative […]
Abstract: From internment camps to military barracks, the U.S. employed Japanese American citizen-soldiers during World War II as the material and ideological basis of its claim to being a non-discriminatory global leader in the project […]
Abstract: This paper argues against the claim that despite plunder and exploitation, British colonialism had lasting benefits in South Asia; the assertion is incomplete and fails to account for the continuous consequences of the Partition […]
Abstract: After Japan’s surrender in World War II, its political system faced many changes. With the help of the United States, Japan rewrote their Constitution, changing the way the Prime Minister was selected and voting eligibility […]
Abstract Following the mass atrocities committed against the Rohingya people by the state of Myanmar, what international justice mechanisms are global states trying to pursue in order to hold state actors and Burmese military accountable? […]
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“Visual Representation of Gender and Class in a Changing China” was a seminar hosted by the Munk School of Global Affairs on 18 March 2016, and co-sponsored by the Asian Institute and University of Toronto […]
Daniel C. Park is a 3rd Year student studying International Relations and Contemporary Asian Studies at the University of Toronto, Trinity College. Currently, Daniel serves as an Associate Editor-in-Chief for Synergy: The Journal of Contemporary […]
Amrita Jash is a Doctoral Candidate at the Centre for East Asian Studies (Chinese Studies), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-India. She is the Editor-in-Chief at IndraStra Global, New York. Abstract In […]
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