Tag: Asia & Oceania
211 Articles
- Society & Culture
Light and Darkness in Inter-Korean Relations during and after the Olympics
In the past ten years, not a single South Korean tourist has travelled to Mt. Kŭmgang, a previously popular tourist spot in North Korea. Similarly, up to 50,000 North Korean…
April 4, 2018
- Global Governance
Australia’s Gun Laws Can’t Work in America – For Now
For Australians, Port Arthur was the last straw. Newly elected Prime Minister John Howard – the country’s most conservative leader in decades – proposed national gun…
March 30, 2018
- Human Rights & Development
The Dark Side of Chinese Modernization
The 2017 annual Human Rights Watch Report on China finds that “the outlook for fundamental human rights, including freedoms of expression, assembly, association, and, …
March 2, 2018
- Business & Economics
Drug Trafficking in Tajikistan: A Very Deep but not Incurable Evil
So far, the success of domestic Tajik policies and international assistance has been minimal. Trafficking is a product of numerous complex factors, including large-scale opium…
March 1, 2018
- Human Rights & Development
Re-imagining Water (and Energy) Sharing in South Asia
Water security has enormous consequences for agricultural productivity and food security in the region. To illustrate, India and Pakistan have over 80 million hectares combined…
February 27, 2018
- Business & Economics
A Passive Congress Allows the KORUS Renegotiation to Proceed Without It
Although just five years old, the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) could be drastically modified or even abolished by the Trump Administration. President Trump has…
February 21, 2018
- Human Rights & Development
The Pacific Islands: At the Confluence of Cultural Preservation and Climate Change
As opposed to the unpredictable calamities that regularly occur in the Pacific, the future may bring a much slower and more insidiously destructive scenario with the potential to…
February 20, 2018
- Global Governance
Australia’s Election to the UN Human Rights Council
Australia’s goals on the UNHRC Australia’s campaign for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council began like any other, with a laundry list of promises and arguments in favor…
December 8, 2017
- Business & Economics
The Trump Administration’s IP Battle Against China
In mid-August, President Trump asked U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to open an investigation into China’s intellectual property (IP) practices. “This is…
November 14, 2017