Tag: Asia & Oceania

211 Articles

Conflict & Security

Securing the Indo-Pacific Arteries

Introduction Sea lines of communications (SLOCs) carry 80 percent of the world’s trade by volume, connecting global value chains, transporting raw materials and semi…

March 16, 2026

Science & Technology

Powering the Periphery: Rethinking Rural Electrification in Fiji

Introduction With its more than 300 scattered islands and population of under a million, Fiji confronts a challenge common to PSIDS: pursuing economic development and meeting…

August 11, 2025

Business & Economics

Re-thinking the EU’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Bottom-up Approach

Introduction In April 2021, the European Union released the “EU Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific,” a roughly 8,000-word document that details the EU’s intention…

July 10, 2025

Dialogues

“Paradise in Isolation”: Tonga and the Fight for Influence in the Pacific

Georgetown Journal of International Affairs: Tonga’s unique political system combines traditional monarchy with modern democracy. How has this structure affected Tonga’s…

May 15, 2025

Society & Culture

Gender Trolling: Digital Manosphere and Misogyny in China

Introduction Trolling is a form of targeted harassment deemed deviant, offensive, and obscene. In the digital environment, gender trolling disproportionately targets women and is…

May 5, 2025

Society & Culture

In the Shadow of a Murder: Religious Freedom Versus the Social Good in Japan

Politics and Religion in Japan Before 1945, the separation of church and state was a foreign concept in Japan. The eminent scholar of Japanese religion, Joseph Kitagawa (1915)…

April 14, 2025

Conflict & Security

The Balochistan Quagmire: A Cycle of Violence, Political Mobilization, and Repression

Introduction Balochistan has long been at the center of tensions between the federal government and Baloch nationalist movements, stemming from political marginalization,…

March 14, 2025

Society & Culture

Governance of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Development in Southeast Asia

Introduction Southeast Asia, particularly the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), has emerged as a major tourism hub, with its ten diverse member nations. Mainland…

March 6, 2025

Dialogues

A Multipolar World Order: U.S.-China Relations Under a Second Trump Administration

GJIA: What is your assessment of the coming future of US-China competition under the second Trump administration? AW: US-China competition will be different from what we have…

February 3, 2025

Global Governance

Renewing its Vows: U.S. Commitment to the Defense of South Korea

Amidst a cascade of increasingly bellicose behavior, Kim Jong Un has accepted a new political reality on the Korean Peninsula. Instead of seeking the peaceful unification of…

January 6, 2025