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Authors: Stephen Howes, Robin Davies and Ashlee Betteridge, ANU There’s a strong and welcome trend toward appointing the leaders of major international organisations through competitive processes...
Author: Natasha Kuhrt, KCL On 22 March, during his first visit to Russia since assuming the Chinese presidency, Xi Jinping and Russian president Vladimir Putin spoke...
Author: Jonathan Pincus, Harvard University The tight monetary policy that Vietnam introduced in 2011 has revealed deep fissures in the country’s political economy. These fissures have...
Author: Trevor Wilson, ANU Australia hosted a high-level government delegation from Myanmar this week, led by President Thein Sein. Thein Sein’s ambitious program of economic and...
Author: Frederic Grare, Carnegie Endowment On 4 February, Afghan president Hamid Karzai and Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari met near London at the invitation of British...
Author: Miguel Alberto Gomez, DLSU Security experts at Kaspersky Lab — a Russian anti-virus firm — disclosed the existence of a large-scale cyber espionage operation in...
Author: Arvind Subramanian, PIIE The list of candidates to succeed Pascal Lamy as director-general of the WTO has just been finalised. Astonishingly, not one of...
Author: Gary Hawke, NZIER The best headline among the usual profusion of journalistic reviews of New Zealand in 2012 is ‘Trivial Pursuits: The big news of...
The renewed fighting in Myanmar has drawn close to the Chinese border in the past week, and Chinese media are reporting that the government of neighboring...