Ideological polarisation is the price of democratic representation in Indonesia
Author: Diego Fossati, City University of Hong Kong Democratic backsliding — understood as the decline of democratic norms, institutions, and…
Hun Sen closes in on independent media in Cambodia
Author: Will Brehm, UCL Cambodia will hold general elections on 23 July 2023. That means it is once again time…
Signs of life amid political stasis
Author: Joseph Yu-shek Cheng, Institute for Security and Development Policy At the beginning of 2023 Hong Kong followed mainland China…
Hong Kong sees signs of life amid political stasis
Author: Joseph Yu-shek Cheng, Institute for Security and Development Policy At the beginning of 2023 Hong Kong followed mainland China…
Australia’s Chinese diaspora faces a representation deficit
Author: Osmond Chiu, Per Capita Australia’s 2022 federal election marked a turning point in the country’s politics. For the first…
Monks and militias in Myanmar
Authors: Amara Thiha and Marte Nilsen, PRIO The political implications of ultra-nationalist Buddhist monks and ideologies in Myanmar received much…
Hereditary politicians remain dominant in Japan
Author: Purnendra Jain, The University of Adelaide and Daisuke Akimoto, Hosei University In early February 2023, the son of Japan’s…
Myanmar’s arrested environmental activism
Authors: Adam Simpson, University of South Australia, Thomas Kean, International Crisis Group, and Susan Park, University of Sydney In the…
Dangerous divides bedevil Southeast Asia’s majority-Muslim democracies
Author: Editorial Board, ANU Around the time of Indonesia’s 2019 presidential elections, there was great concern about the damage that…
Malaysia follows Indonesia on the road from authoritarian hegemony
Author: Dan Slater, University of Michigan Indonesia and Malaysia have always been similar enough to make direct comparisons promising, but…