Religion’s Changing Form and Relation to the State since 1989
Perceptions of religion remain stuck in an old paradigm which does not represent the extent of the religious revolution that is taking place.
Poll Results in Singapore: Old Continuities and New Challenges
Singapore’s politics is in the process of evolution. Democratisation is a comprehensive exercise which helps to reaffirm the faith in the ruling polity and the people.
Faustian Pacts and the War beneath My Feet
As quickly as mining shafts were sealed in Johannesburg they have been re-opened and worked by a new generation of illegal miners run by gangs.
Breaking the Silence
Humanitarian organisations must commit to countering the prevalent impunity of perpetrators of sexual abuse and harassment within humanitarian agencies.
Sectarian Divisions, Proxy Wars and Chaos
It is important to have a firm grasp of the role that religion and sectarianism play as mobilizing forces in the regional politics of the Middle East.
Church, State and Culture: Should Religion Be a Private Matter?
Secular liberalism has become an influential, even dominant, worldview among sections of the intellectual class in many Western societies.
The Contemporary Ambiguities of Religions as a Source of Civilisational Identity
The international society is experiencing an epoch-making process of transformation. The global resurgence of religion is not unrelated to these structural changes.
Forced Marriage in Australia: Definitely Not the ‘Usual Suspects’
Forced marriage comprises an untidy bundle of wrongs lost at the intersection of international relations, state sovereignty, human rights, and criminal accountability.
VVP: Is Vladimir Putin the Super-Villain We’ve All Been Waiting For?
Like Osama bin Laden circa 2000, Vladimir Putin, while real enough, is more a figment of our popular-geopolitical imagination, and one which we cannot live without.
Turkey’s Borderlands, the Syrian Civil War, and the Kurds
For countries that share a long land border and overlapping populations with similar customs, ‘spillover’ is a natural sociological corollary of transnational ties.
