Nepal’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission limps on
RENÉE JEFFERY | On 9 February 2019, the operational mandate of Nepal’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared… Read More
Region | India and South Asia
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Australia’s Indo-Pacific pitch: What’s in it for the Quad?
In January, at the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi, Foreign Minister Marise Payne enunciated her government’s pitch to develop closer relations with India. Her speech was… Read More
India’s employment crisis
YAN ISLAM | The Indian government recently got mired in controversy when it apparently tried to suppress a report from the National Sample Survey… Read More
Sustainable agricultural practices for rural female tea smallholders in Sri Lanka
Ki-Hoon Lee and project team discuss the sustainable agricultural practices with the project facilitators in an experimental tea block in Hatton, Sri Lanka. Read More
Why the Quad won’t ever be an Asian NATO
The most recent meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Singapore last November suggests that the US,… Read More
Can the Quad navigate the complexities of a dynamic Indo-Pacific?
CAITLIN BYRNE | The past year has seen the revival of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a mechanism which enables dialogue between four major democracies… Read More
Australia should brace for a volatile year in foreign policy in 2019
SUSAN HARRIS RIMMER | By the end of 2019 we should be able to assess how Australia is travelling with the grand plan laid… Read More
Is central bank autonomy in India under threat?
YAN ISLAM | Urjit Patel, until very recently the 24th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), could no longer maintain his customary… Read More
Regional wrap
The last fortnight witnessed the most coherent manifestation of what’s being touted as the new cold war between the US and China that is likely… Read More
It’s time to fill Asia’s arms control void
Asia urgently needs new diplomatic initiatives aimed at reducing nuclear dangers and preventing arms racing in the region. There’s a glaring gap between the ambitious… Read More
