Tag: Asia & Oceania
211 Articles
- Dialogues
A Reframed Understanding of Urbanism in the Global South with Professor AbdouMaliq Simone
In international relations, cities occupy a rich focal point of migration, economic activities, and other distinctive urbanized social formations. The work of Professor…
May 5, 2023
- Conflict & Security
Engagement, not Entanglement: India’s Relationship with the Quad
Understanding the Quad As the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific continue to dominate global headlines, discussions on the Quad remain rife. The concept of the Quad was sown in a…
May 1, 2023
- Global Governance
Decoding Sino-American Relations Through A Dualist Account of Threat Perception
China and the United States have an increasingly hostile relationship. The recent Chinese balloon shoot-down is one of the many examples of strained US perceptions of the…
April 20, 2023
- Society & Culture
Joseonjok and Goryeo Saram Ethnic Return Migrants in South Korea: Challenges of Co-Ethnic Hierarchization and Ethnonationalism
Ethnonationalism is a strong force in Korean society, and the South Korean state has pursued an active diasporic engagement policy based on this principle. Nevertheless, co…
April 14, 2023
- Conflict & Security
China’s Economic Security Challenge: Difficulties Overcoming the Malacca Dilemma
The Malacca Dilemma is the possibility that the U.S. or Indian navies would blockade or substantially interdict China’s Indian Ocean sea lines of communication (SLOC) beyond…
March 22, 2023
- Business & Economics
State-Owned Enterprises’ Responses to China’s Carbon Neutrality Goals and Implications for Foreign Investors
SOEs as two-faced actors in China’s climate actions SOEs play a wide variety of roles within China’s national settings. There are 97 central SOEs directly overseen by the…
February 15, 2023
- Global Governance
US Diplomacy and the Pacific Islands: Risk of Over-Promising and Under-Delivering
As the former US Ambassador to the Republic of Palau—a small but strategic nation in the second island chain of the Pacific—I believe our relationship with the region is on a…
February 9, 2023
- Science & Technology
A Technological Fix: The Adoption of Chinese Public Security Systems
The Global Spread of China’s Surveillance Tools In Uganda, the Kampala police procured 6 million worth of AI public security platforms from Huawei, purportedly to…
January 20, 2023
- Business & Economics
North Korean Food Security and Rural Development Strategy
North Korea has been in the midst of a self-declared food crisis since 2021, and the country’s leadership has declared its intention to normalize the food supply and develop…
January 18, 2023
- Society & Culture
Toward a Feminist Re-problematization of China’s Low Birth Rate
The universal relaxation of China’s one-child policy since 2016 has not produced sustained population growth as desired by Beijing. Now incentivizing births for the party…
January 6, 2023