Tag: Asia & Oceania
211 Articles
- Human Rights & Development
COVID-19: A Crisis within Crises for the World’s Most Vulnerable
There are millions of Yemenis trapped in the middle of the globe’s deadliest active conflict. And there are the 730 thousand destitute Rohingya who fled genocidal violence in…
December 11, 2020
- Society & Culture
WeChat’s Potential for Social Activism and Civic Action in the Chinese Diaspora
This year, two Chinese social media platforms have become pawns in the ongoing technological and trade war between the United States and China. One is TikTok, a video-sharing…
December 10, 2020
- Conflict & Security
COVID-19 Yields a Sharper Picture of China-Taiwan Relations
On December 31, 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission posted a message on its website detailing a mysterious “viral pneumonia” emerging in the city. This information,…
December 7, 2020
- Science & Technology
How to Design a Co-benefit Framework Between Air Quality Improvement and Climate Policy: The Case of South Korea
Introduction Excessive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and air pollutants, the by-products of economic activity, create negative externalities at the local and global level. They…
November 30, 2020
- Society & Culture
Domein Verklaring: Colonial Legal Legacies and Community Access to Land in Indonesia
Exactly 150 years since the passing of transformative agrarian laws by the Dutch colonial government in 1870, the now-independent Republic of Indonesia is still grappling with…
November 25, 2020
- Global Governance
Indo-Pacific Needs the Third Pole, ASEAN+1
The United States and China seem to be competing on every front in their recent disputes over the WHO, WTO, 5G, outer space sovereignty, and trade. The matter of regional…
November 24, 2020
- Global Governance
Global Leadership on Climate-Linked Human Insecurity: Learning from Pacific Island States
Change and challenge have defined the year 2020. The global pandemic has claimed over a million lives and threatens livelihoods around the globe, the climate crisis persists…
November 7, 2020
- Science & Technology
PART II: COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Why South Korea’s Success is Hard to Replicate
As it currently stands, the legal impediments to centralized contact tracing have essentially reduced EU countries to adopt non-centralized alternatives. Most have involved…
October 19, 2020
- Science & Technology
PART I: COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Why South Korea’s Success is Hard to Replicate
It often surprises many to know South Korea and the United States both reported their first COVID-19 cases on the same day: January 20, 2020. Despite the early exposure, South…
October 12, 2020
- Society & Culture
Water Politics and the Human Geographies of the Aral Sea Crisis
It is impossible, of course, to discuss the desiccation of the Aral Sea without acknowledging its anthropogenic origins in the excessive diversion of water from the Amu Darya and…
September 18, 2020