Democracy in Myanmar: Who can claim victory?
ANDREW SELTH | Paraphrasing the Roman historian Tacitus, US President John F Kennedy said in 1961 that ‘victory has a thousand fathers but defeat… Read More
March, 2016
Andrew Selth: The lady and authoritarianism in Myanmar
ANDREW SELTH | Over the past few years, there has been a significant shift in public perceptions of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu… Read More
From state predation to market extraction: The political economy of China’s rural finance, 1979–2012
Despite some progress in the past three decades, China’s rural economy still suffers from a lack of sound financial intermediation in terms of the coverage,… Read More
Japanese subs: A once-in-a-generation opportunity
MICHAEL HEAZLE | Hugh White’s piece in the Fairfax media last week on the strategic perils of Australia buying Japanese submarines is long… Read More
Shaping Futures – Asia Future Fellows program for undergraduates
As a 24 year old student applying for what at the time I simply perceived to be a free trip to China, I had no… Read More
Griffith Asia Institute Inaugural Asia Lecture: Keeping the Right Balance in Asia
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS FULLY SUBSCRIBED. IF YOU WISH TO JOIN THE WAIT LIST, PLEASE VISIT OUR GAI INAUGURAL ASIA LECTURE WEBSITE. Read More
The rats of Rangoon
ANDREW SELTH | From plague, to meals, to piles and piles of poo — Andrew Selth on the former capital’s resident rodents. When I… Read More
Securing the seas, securing the state: Hope, danger and the politics of order in the Asia-Pacific
More than ‘regional integration’, the ‘power shift’ towards China and ‘Asia’ has come to dominate the debates about the Asia-Pacific and global order. As the… Read More
Myanmar foreign policy under Aung San Suu Kyi
ANDREW SELTH | Last November, the National League for Democracy won a landslide electoral victory in Myanmar. It formed a new government this month. Read More
Strengthening relationship with Chukyo University
International relations with Chukyo University (CKU), Japan, extend back to 1998 when the first Exchange Agreement was signed with Griffith University. Since then students from… Read More
