Unveiling the engines behind e-government in Vietnam
Authors: Pham Thi Thuy Duong, UC San Diego and Truong Thuy Quynh, UC Riverside Vietnam’s digital government landscape ranked 86th…
Kishida’s biggest problem is Japan’s faltering bureaucracy
Author: Ko Mishima, East Stroudsburg University Late prime minister Shinzo Abe left an important mark on Japanese political history. He…
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…
The changing face of Chinese governance
Author: Ryan Manuel, Bilby Chinese President Xi Jinping had only just launched his third term in power when questions about…
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…
Injustice persists amid security shake-up in the Philippines
Author: Kevin Nielsen M Agojo, City University of Hong Kong Barely a year into his administration, Philippine President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’…
Anwar Ibrahim returns to a changed economy
Author: Teck Chi Wong, University of Queensland During Anwar Ibrahim’s first stint as Malaysia’s finance minister in the 1990s, Putrajaya…
Pakistan still treading water in 2023
Author: Michael Kugelman, Wilson Centre For much of 2022, Pakistani politics were in a state of severe crisis, exacerbating concurrent…
Sri Lanka’s disastrous 2022 ends with a sliver of optimism
Author: Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits, Erasmus University Rotterdam Sri Lanka entered 2022 beset by economic crisis and political upheaval. The economic crisis…