Southeast Asia’s performative drug policies marginalise migrants and minorities, leaving criminal networks untouched.

Lena Diakite is a third-year Liberal Arts and Sciences student at the University of Freiburg majoring in Governance. Her academic focus lies at the intersection of inferential statistics and migration ...

In the Philippines, undelivered flood-control projects and collusion are undermining climate resilience and fuelling public ...

Macario Lacbawan is Research Associate at the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Futures of Sustainability’, University of Hamburg. His research focuses on climate change, infrastructure and ...

Though often overlooked, US–China wartime cooperation left a maritime legacy that continues to shape Asia’s order today.

Rural communities in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta are losing traditional ecological knowledge as climate change, agricultural ...

Dr Duong Van Ni is Chairperson and Director of the Mekong Conservancy Foundation. He is also the Director of the Wetland University Network which comprises 24 Universities across 7 countries in the ...

Beijing’s 2025 defence white paper outlines a regional vision that challenges the Indo-Pacific strategy and raises difficult ...

On 4 October 2025, Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) elected Sanae Takaichi as its new president, which in usual ...

Until the LDP changes its focus under Takaichi, the debate over foreign resident policy will remain reactive, divisive and ...

As the LDP clings to its shrinking base and defensive conservatism, Japan faces a leadership vacuum that could undermine its ...

A quiet revolution is underway in academia, reshaping how the world understands itself. After decades of Western dominance, ...