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Making sense of Myanmar’s coup

By Mikael Gravers, Aarhus University: Early in the morning on 1 February 2021, the Myanmar armed forces (Tatmadaw) arrested President Win Myint and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, along with other high-ranking National League for Democracy (NLD) members. As

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Life Under the Radar: Female North Korean Migrants Living in China.

By Kate Allanson, MA North Korean Studies Student, University of Central Lancashire: A life underground or risk repatriation. This is the choice many North Korean migrants are faced with once they cross the Yalu River, setting foot on Chinese ground.

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Hindu Cultural Nationalism and its implication for India

By Amit Singh, PhD candidate, University of Coimbra: Cultural nationalism is a form of nationalism in which the nation is defined by a shared culture. It focuses on a national identity shaped by cultural traditions. In the Indian context, the

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A New Cold War? Can we maintain good academic relationships with China post Covid-19?

By Jørgen Delman, University of Copenhagen: As a social scientist working in the field of Chinese politics, I note with interest the speed with which perceptions of China changed these last months. A Cold War mentality is detectable. We hear

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What’s Past Is Prologue – The Geopolitical Significance of Covid-19 for Southeast Asia

  by Ann Marie Murphy, Seton Hall University.     As countries begin to reopen during the Covid-19 pandemic, strategic analysts are debating its impact on the future of geopolitics. Some contend that the pandemic could reshape the global order, accelerating

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Tackling intimate partner violence is not of interest to China

 by Pia Eskelinen,  Doctoral Candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Turku.   In early 2016, a legislation on domestic violence was implemented in China. However, the law does not provide adequate protection for the victims. And furthermore, intimate partner

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This Virus Is Tough, but History Provides Perspective: The 1968 Pandemic and the Vietnam War

By Nathaniel L. Moir, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University   2020 has been a rough year.  1968 was worse.  Granted, as of late April, we are only a third of the way into this tumultuous and frustrating

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Covid-19: The test of Pashtuns’ mechanical solidarity

By Naveed Ahmad Shinwari, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex At the time of writing this piece, Pakistan stood at number 33 in the list of countries affected by Covid-19 with 5,038 citizens having tested positive out of 61,801

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Calm in the Eye of the Cyclone

By Jakub Polansky, University of Sussex In August 2019, I embarked on a year-long journey to Khorog, a town in the south-eastern part of Tajikistan, to research cross-border trade along the Afghan-Tajik border. As part of my fieldwork, I recently

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The time to “sober up” has arrived: Could COVID-19 provide the global wake-up call the world needs?

By Saba Karim Khan, NYU Abu Dhabi Last week, my brother sent me a video from the China Global Television Network. The video opened with a warning, addressed to no one in particular but to the world in general: “Sober

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Recent InFocus Posts

  • Making sense of Myanmar’s coup
  • Life Under the Radar: Female North Korean Migrants Living in China.
  • Hindu Cultural Nationalism and its implication for India
  • A New Cold War? Can we maintain good academic relationships with China post Covid-19?
  • What’s Past Is Prologue – The Geopolitical Significance of Covid-19 for Southeast Asia

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