Politics, power and private armed groups in the Philippines
Author: Vincent Kyle Parada, Philippine Navy On 4 March 2023, Provincial Governor Roel Degamo was gunned down inside his residential…
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…
Pakistan’s political soap opera puts its economy on the ropes
Author: Shuja Nawaz, Atlantic Council Pakistan is on the edge of defaulting on its financial obligations. In 2022, climate change…
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…
The political theatre behind Philippines police cleansing
Authors: Steffen Jensen, Aalborg University and Karl Hapal, University of the Philippines Diliman In January 2023, the Philippines’ Secretary of…
Global diplomacy breaks the hard nexus between war and famine
Author: Editorial Board, ANU This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Bengal Famine in India and the less well-known…
Insufficient preschool education in China needs reform
Author: Bingqin Li, UNSW Preschool education in China needs to improve in quality and shift away from quantitative growth. While…
Reimagining Bangladesh’s economic progress
Author: Soumya Bhowmick, Observer Research Foundation Bangladesh’s economy has grown at impressive rates in the last decade. Even as one…
A different kind of Asia Pacific minilateralism is now needed
Author: Editorial Board, ANU There’s no question that the risks of political and economic fragmentation that come with great power…
Cold War Archives: Return to the Jakarta-Tokyo-Canberra Trilateral
Author: Andrew Levidis, ANU Australia’s role in Asian regionalism has too often been a blind spot in public discourse about…