Category: Regional Politics in Asia
Murray Hiebert on the mega corruption scandal in Malaysia
Anwar Ibrahim speaks during a rally to denounce 2013 elections. Murray Hiebert serves as senior fellow and deputy director of the Chair for Southeast Asia Studies at the Center for Strategic and Inter... Read More
Willy Lam on recent developments in Hong Kong
Riot police stand by on Hong Kong's Nathan Road during the unrest in February 2016 that was later called the "Fishball Revolution." Willy Lam is a veteran observer and analyst of Chinese foreign polic... Read More
Sidney Jones on terrorist attacks in Indonesia
A police box shows damage caused by a suicide bomb attack in Jakarta on Jan. 14, 2016. Four civilians were killed and many more were wounded. Sidney Jones is founder and director of Institute for Poli... Read More
Priscilla Clapp on Burma’s ethnic minorities
Displaced Rohingya people in Rakhine State in 2012. Ms. Clapp is a retired Minister-Counselor in the U.S. Foreign Service. She is currently a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Institute of Peace. During her ... Read More
Peter Rutland on Russia and China: Through a Glass Darkly
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2015. Peter Rutland is Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and currently Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University... Read More
Luise Druke on the Vietnamese boat people crisis and its lessons today
Dr. Luise Druke is co-chair of the Inter-University Committee on International Migration at MIT and an Affiliated Expert at Harvard University. A German scholar and practitioner in the fields of inter... Read More
Tuong Vu on Vietnamese politics
Dr. Tuong Vu is director of Asian Studies and associate professor of political science at the University of Oregon, and has held visiting fellowships at the National University of Singapore and Prince... Read More
Alan Romberg on Taiwan’s elections
Alan Romberg is a Distinguished Fellow and the Director of the East Asia program at Stimson. Before joining Stimson in September 2000, he enjoyed a distinguished career working on Asian issues includi... Read More