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: 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...
Author: Pedro Cerdan-Infantes, World Bank Indonesia has made an extraordinary commitment to education in the past decade. Since 2002 the government has had a constitutional mandate...
Author: Matthew Rimmer, ANU The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a sweeping, plurilateral free-trade agreement spanning the Pacific Rim. The ongoing, secretive treaty negotiations involve Australia and...
Author: Li Mingjiang, RSIS The past few years have been particularly eventful for the South China Sea dispute. The tensions and related diplomatic pressures exerted on...
Author: Peter Drysdale, Editor, East Asia Forum After decades of struggle to overcome political repression and deprivation, Myanmar appears on the way to democracy. This achievement...
A top U.S. Navy commander in the Pacific warned about the dangers of minor disputes in the South China Sea blossoming into bigger crises, emphasizing the...
Author: Kirill Muradov, HSE Although Russia has intensified its efforts to join the WTO by the end of 2011, membership remains elusive. This may have direct...
For many Vietnam veterans, Memorial Day was for remembering not only those Americans who died in the Vietnam War, but also our counterparts -- the Vietnamese,...