SECURITY
The standoff over territorial rights to the South China Sea has exposed the depth of the Philippines’ reliance on the waterway for food and energy…
ANALYSIS
- by Richard Javad Heydarian, De La Salle University
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
China’s role in Africa is growing, and is becoming key to the continent’s economic rise. Already, China is Africa’s largest trade partner. The volume of…
ANALYSIS
- by Chibueze Nnanna Anyanwu, TAC
INCLUSIVENESS
Regardless of how an individual racially or ethnically self-identifies, they will see a DNA test result showing multiple divisions in their bloodline, simplified by many…
ANALYSIS
- by Yinghong Cheng, Delaware State University
ENVIRONMENT
“Anthropocene” is a widely proposed name for the geological epoch that covers human impact on our planet. But it is not synonymous with “climate change,”…
ANALYSIS
- by Julia Adeney Thomas, University of Notre Dame
TRADE
Mr. and Mrs. Alhaji (names have been changed) are the owners of a successful textile wholesaling firm in Lagos, Nigeria. They import from a variety…
ANALYSIS
- by Shelby Grossman, University of Memphis, and Meredith Startz, Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development
INCLUSIVENESS
The findings of a new study highlight the importance of gender diversity in a boardroom in making environmental decisions: firms with more female directors on…
ANALYSIS
- by Chelsea Liu, University of Adelaide
ENVIRONMENT
While the toll that breathing polluted air exacts on health and physical wellbeing is richly documented, lesser known is its impact on human intelligence. In…
ANALYSIS
- by Xiaobo Zhang, International Food Policy Research Institute, and Xi Chen, Yale University
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Over the course of his presidency so far, Xi Jinping has carefully but explicitly reoriented China from diplomacy with major powers to diplomacy as a…
ANALYSIS
- by Yoshikazu Kato and George Lwanda, Asia Global Institute
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