Asia
"As Africa and Latin America experience rapid population growth and urbanization, the Singapore-Dubai model offers a powerful framework to build flourishing cities in underdeveloped parts of the world."
Asia
"Duterte’s strategies to combat the issues faced by Filipinos have conditioned and emboldened the police. As a new president leads the country, the future of the Philippines’ criminal justice system seems committed to less violent means."
Anniversary
"The past 30 years have seen remarkable change for one of history's longest-suffering states. After genocide and UN occupation, it is as corrupt and autocratic as before, but its people have begun to see an improvement developing countries across the world can learn from."
Agriculture
"Tree poaching has made Taiwan suffer disproportionate forest loss. Approaches to solving this crisis are varied, and Taiwan is having difficulty finding the right solution."
Interviews
"Therefore, Sri Lanka is critically important when the two greatest democracies – the most powerful democracy of the United States and the largest democracy of India – come together in order to make democracy safe for the world."
Asia
"This repetition of history proves that there is much to be communally cognizant of, much to globally hold accountability for, and much to locally embrace changes within."
China
"The Zambian debt crisis, one of the more extreme examples of debt to China, reveals how a lack of development drives African loans, with chronic mismanagement by both China and Zambia creating today’s crisis."
China
"With its assertive foreign policy, China has been striving increasingly to become a maritime superpower to replace the United States in the Indo-Pacific region."
Asia
"As a country that is actively sinking carbon and yet poised to bear some of the worst impacts of climate change, Bhutan is a case study for the kinds of environmental justice dilemmas that will arise as the world faces the challenges of climate change."
Asia
"When human beings have been killed, or been tortured, it doesn't matter where—we are all responsible. No one, [anywhere] in the world, should have the right to imprison, to torture, to kill with absolute impunity."
Asia
"Although the US dollar remains the world’s dominant fiat currency, an analysis of the geopolitics surrounding the battle for currency hegemony reveals that China’s digital yuan will pose a serious challenge to the dollar status quo as the 21st century unfolds."
Asia
As the world begins to wake up to Indonesia’s vast potential, nearly seventy years of non-alignment will be tested.