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Category: Asia

Asia/High School Essay Contest

Differing Conceptions of Citizenship: Nehru, Gandhi and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)

Posted on May 2020 by Suhan Kacholia

In December 2019, the Parliament of India passed a law entitled the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The CAA, endorsed by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata...

Acheson Prize/Asia/Comments/Essays

Can the Personal be Political?: A Critique of Gandhi’s Nonviolence in the Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Movement

Posted on May 2020 by Isabella Epstein Yale'21

Part I. Introduction  In 1841, Hong Kong became a British colony, having been ceded by China after the First Opium War. The British reaffirmed their sovere...

Acheson Prize/Asia/Essays

Military Modernizers: US Military Aid and the Indonesian Civic Action Program, 1958-1965

Posted on May 2020 by Gregory Jany, Yale '21

On March 12, 1958, an unidentified plane parachuted 20 cases of arms into the middle of a field in Pekanbaru, a city that became a major conflict zone in the In...

Asia/Comments

Abubacarr Tambadou’s Case Against Myanmar: A Watershed Moment for International Law

Posted on April 2020 by Tyler Jager

In the eyes of scholars and policymakers who subscribe to the tenets of political realism, unconditional solidarity with any group beyond one’s borders, particu...

Asia/Essays/Spring Issue

Collective China Crisis: An Analysis of China’s Threatening Rise and a Revival of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

Posted on April 2020 by Bryan Liceralde

Introduction Russian attempts to interfere in Western politics are well-documented. But, despite the similarities in policy, Chinese attempts at interference us...

Asia/Essays/Spring Issue

How to Scare a Giant: Resolve Signaling in South China Sea Maritime Disputes

Posted on March 2020 by James Boehme

Written by: James Boehme, Tufts University Summary Introduction Vast quantities of International Relations scholarship published over the past several decades h...

Asia/Comments

A Pashtun Awakening Against All Odds

Posted on February 2020 by Minahil Nawaz

By Minahil Nawaz, TD’21 On January 28, 2020, Pakistani authorities detained two members of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) in the northwest city of Peshawar...

Asia/Comments

Lahore’s Fifth Season: Smog

Posted on November 2019 by Minahil Nawaz

South and Central Asia Desk Written by: Minahil Nawaz, Timothy Dwight College At 10 AM on 30th October 2019, the Air Quality Index (AQI) in Lahore, Pakistan rea...

Asia/Essays/Global Issue

Why is Taiwan so important? The manipulation of nationalism in legitimizing​ one-party rule in China

Posted on October 2019 by Jun Tao Yeung

Global Issue 2019 Written by: Jun Tao Yeung, University of Hong Kong Introduction Since Tsai Ing-wen and the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)...

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