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Monks and militias in Myanmar
Authors: Amara Thiha and Marte Nilsen, PRIO The political implications of ultra-nationalist Buddhist monks and ideologies in Myanmar received much
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The political theatre behind Philippines police cleansing
Authors: Steffen Jensen, Aalborg University and Karl Hapal, University of the Philippines Diliman In January 2023, the Philippines’ Secretary of
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International Women’s Day 2023
Today is a statistical overview for International Women’s Day. Let’s start by looking at student numbers. Figure 1 gives us the long view on
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Global diplomacy breaks the hard nexus between war and famine
Author: Editorial Board, ANU This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Bengal Famine in India and the less well-known Henan Famine in China, which
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Insufficient preschool education in China needs reform
Author: Bingqin Li, UNSW Preschool education in China needs to improve in quality and shift away from quantitative growth. While the government is
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The evolution of mainstream economics in five political-economic questions
The trajectory of mainstream economics can be understood in terms of how the discipline historically responded to moments of crises by attempting to
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Reimagining Bangladesh’s economic progress
Author: Soumya Bhowmick, Observer Research Foundation Bangladesh’s economy has grown at impressive rates in the last decade. Even as one of the few
Plus ça change
I was recently reading this great book of essays edited by Philip Altbach (if you are studying higher education and have never read Altbach, you are
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A different kind of Asia Pacific minilateralism is now needed
Author: Editorial Board, ANU There’s no question that the risks of political and economic fragmentation that come with great power rivalry in Asia
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Cold War Archives: Return to the Jakarta-Tokyo-Canberra Trilateral
Author: Andrew Levidis, ANU Australia’s role in Asian regionalism has too often been a blind spot in public discourse about the country’s
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Stock Take VII: research I can’t do
This isn't the kind of international recognition @UniversityLeeds senior management will want. If they want the strikes to stop they need to tell
Seminar CLXXII: regions, Russia and Robertians
One of the more interesting things I saw in the tail end of 2019 (because yes, sorry, backlog still that far back) was an attempt by three colleagues
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New PNG government goes for gold
Author: Ronald May, ANU 2022 was an election year in Papua New Guinea (PNG), so electoral politics dominated much of the first half of the year.
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Strained ties with Russia boost prospects for Central Asian integration
Author: Gennady Rudkevich, Alexandria Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and China’s modest response to it, has placed the governments of Central Asia
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Strained ties with Russia boost prospects for Central Asian integration
Author: Gennady Rudkevich, Alexandria Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and China’s modest response to it, has placed the governments of Central Asia