Category: Regional Politics in Asia
Dr. Sumit Ganguly on the India-China Border Dispute at the Doklam Plateau
Sumit Ganguly is a Professor of Political Science, holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations. Professor Ganguly is also a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research In... Read More
Milan Vaishnav on BJP after victory in Uttar Pradesh
Milan Vaishnav is a senior fellow in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His primary research focus is the political economy of India, and he examines issues such... Read More
Willy Lam on the 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election
Willy Lam is a veteran observer and analyst of Chinese foreign policy and domestic politics and author of numerous books on China. He is an Adjunct Professor at the History Department and the Center f... Read More
Katharine Moon on President Park Geun-hye’s corruption scandal
Katharine (Kathy) H.S. Moon is a professor of Political Science and the Wasserman Chair of Asian Studies at Wellesley College, where she has taught since 1993. She is also a nonresident senior fellow ... Read More
Stephan Haggard on North Korean refugees: the Chinese “underground railroad,” integration into South Korea, and the future of U.S. policy
"The Yalu River seen from the Yunfeng dam with a railway bridge and a factory. North Korea on the left, China on the right." by Jacky Lee — Panoramio. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons ... Read More
Syaru Shirley Lin on Taiwan’s China dilemma: contested identities and multiple interests in Taiwan’s cross-strait economic policy
Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen (right). Syaru Shirley Lin is a member of the founding faculty of the master’s program in global political economy at the Ch... Read More
Nirupama Rao on Indian diplomacy with the world’s largest economies
Nirupama Rao entered the Indian Foreign Service in 1973 and served as India's ambassador to the United States, China, and Sri Lanka, as well as India's Foreign Secretary from 2009 to 2011. She was the... Read More
Miemie Winn Byrd on Myanmar’s progress toward democracy: beyond media coverage
Aung San Suu Kyi greeting supporters from Bago State. Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd is a Professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. She holds a Doctorate in Education... Read More