Investigating the players, institutions and narratives driving political and economic dynamics across fast-emerging Asia
Emerging trends in transnational security: from the rise of non-state actors to force privatization
Cognitive warfare has rapidly become central in the debates about the character of modern and future conflict. The PLA stands out here for a pronounced sensitivity to the cognitive dimension of war.
What is often described as “virtual” is being brought back under territorial logics, through control over where data are stored and processed, which infrastructures and providers are considered trustworthy, and how cross-border connectivity is governed.
In the past seven years, Armenia has gone through a roller-coaster of changes, crises, challenges, and upheavals. In 2018 the mass movement of civil disobedience known as the “Velvet Revolution” succeeded in ousting the incumbent authoritarian regime and bringing Nikol Pashinyan to power as Prime Minister.
As Muse has transformed into a strategic border hub, the illegal drug economy has become deeply embedded in systems of rule, economic development and everyday life.
Even though in recent years China and Indonesia have seemed to share a destiny that is, if not a common one, at least closely intertwined, they always need to be careful and must come to terms with their troubled relationship.
The PRC is widely recognized as a destination market for many women trafficked in Asia, particularly from Vietnam. Trafficking in women in China is a sensitive and complex issue that threatens public health, security, gender equity and sustainable development.
Elections and the use of online political advertising - (Geo)politics of digital authoritarianism
China’s ambition on climate change in a post-pandemic world | Katherine Morton
New East Asian institutions could challenge the global economic order | T.J. Pempel
Chinese economic statecraft. An illiberal actor in a (more) liberal global economy | Shaun Breslin
