Perhaps the most controversial among recent events in the southeast tropical of Asia is Rodrigo Duterte’s advocacy of vigilante killings, that is, the supposedly authorized extrajudicial killings of criminals. According to a research done by […]
“The Dictator’s Dilemma: The Communist Party’s Strategy for Survival” was a part of the East Asia Seminar Series hosted at the Munk School of Global Affairs on the 7 October 2016 and was sponsored by […]
Global warming and the El Niño phenomenon have contributed to record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather events around the world. In July this year, the global average temperatures taken over land and ocean surfaces were the highest […]
For decades, political scientists and international spectators alike have been predicting the demise of the nearly hundred-year old Chinese communist regime. It has been described as “crumbling”, “doomed” and most recently, “close to collapse.” However, […]
Abstract India is not a signatory to the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT), but it should not be perceived that India is not working to attain an effective mechanism to check nuclear proliferation in South Asia. […]
Abstract The twenty-first century is a rapid time of change, both for China and for the world. The age of integrated globalization is changing China’s foreign policy from a domestic to an external focus. A […]
The territorial dispute between China and Japan over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands in the East China Sea is heating up. The latest escalation in the long-running dispute started in January 2016, when China dispatched two coastguard […]
Abstract The Saemaul Undong (New Village Movement) was a nation-wide rural development campaign mobilised by the Park Chung Hee regime in the 1970’s. The movement has often been cited by the South Korean government as […]
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force officially announced an end to its 13-year long military operations in Afghanistan in 2014. It is no wonder that NATO’s influences are diminishing with the eventual takeover of Afghanistan’s […]
Territorial disputes between ASEAN member states and China in the South China Sea have never been considered old news to the media in the past four decades. Several upsurges of tension in recent years have […]
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