Troubling International Human Rights Advocacy
With people’s precious identities being their detriments, we need to declare our values, voices, and positionality to abolish colonial episteme and reconstruct our social relations.
Opinion – The Status of China’s Confucius Institutes in American Universities
Regardless of the context, the PRC’s PR professionals did not need an office on American campuses as Great Power competition moves beyond the soft power stage.
Opinion – Saving Myanmar?
With no sign of junta retrenchment, the big question remains as to how even a vestige of Myanmar’s democracy can be salvaged from the spoils of coup.
Reimagining Susan Strange’s States and Markets: Small and Medium Enterprises in Fragile Situations
Local businesses in fragile and conflict-affected situations, such as in Mindanao, can link to the global economy and bridge the isolation narrative.
Space Stations and International Politics
It is difficult not to see the symbolism of a decaying ISS under American leadership and a materialising Chinese Tiangong with more and more countries wishing to participate.
Opinion – China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Pragmatism over Morals?
Despite criticism, the Belt and Road Initiative and the pragmatic values associated with Chinese investments are unlikely to lose popularity any time soon.
Turkey: Unopposed in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
The gap in military power between Turkey and its adversaries is growing with few demonstrable measures taken by Mediterranean powers to compensate and rebalance the region.
Opinion – Indian Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism
Indian politics needs to reject electoral objectification – the conversion of subalterns into electoral objects that are identical with all the other objects, differing from them only by their serial number.
Opinion – Taiwan’s Almighty Squeeze
The resounding re-election of President Tsai Ing-wen in 2020 reflects a steely determination on the part of the Taiwanese to resist the ‘almighty squeeze’ China is seeking to impose on them.
The Appropriation of ‘Curiosity’
Progress comes by opposing the process by which non-Western peoples are viewed as passive, weak and disinterested, while enabling the retrieval of different ways of knowing and understanding the epistemologies of the South.
