Asia/Pacific

Australia’s Refugee Challenge

Nidha Khan • May 19 2016 • Essays

As Australia is obligated to create a peaceful culture by creating policies which include asylum seekers and refugees, its human rights violations cannot continue.

Assessing the Relationship between Power and Morality in Nonviolent Action

Sarah Wallace • May 3 2016 • Essays

Nonviolent action can simultaneously be pragmatic in its power to achieve the desired goal and principled by being rooted initially in morality.

The Shadows of Tiananmen: Chinese Foreign Policy and Human Rights

Jessica Kirk • Apr 15 2016 • Essays

Since Tiananmen Square 1989, China’s understanding of the significant yet contingent power of human rights discourse has guided much of its foreign policy on the subject.

The Significance of the US War on Terror Policy for the Japan-US Relationship

Yuki Horiuchi • Apr 9 2016 • Essays

Japan’s participation in the War on Terror might have played an important role in making the Japan-U.S. relationship a global alliance.

Domestic Violence as Everyday Terrorism: Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan

Dean Cooper-Cunningham • Apr 4 2016 • Essays

Seeing bride kidnapping and domestic violence as everyday terrorism unpacks the political nature of so-called “private” phenomena and how they reify patriarchal society.

Arms Control and Cooperative Security: A Regional Perspective

Ling Guo • Mar 31 2016 • Essays

Cooperative security is a feasible concept in a regional and even a global context, but its success is in varying degrees of progress and is still in ambiguous standing.

Transitional Justice in Cambodia–Too Little Too Late?

Emily Gleeson • Mar 22 2016 • Essays

Understanding the events and interests that led up to the creation of the ECCC gives insight into the current government’s attempts to achieve legitimacy.

Securing the Energy Supply: China’s “Malacca Dilemma”

Matthew Caesar-Gordon • Feb 26 2016 • Essays

For China to ensure the future security of its energy supply, it must balance the protection of its critical sea lanes with the seeking of alternative energy sources.

The Contested Image of Māori Cultural Exhibition in Aotearoa New Zealand

James Harrison • Feb 15 2016 • Essays

The presentation of Māori people in New Zealand has changed greatly since their first major appearance in 1851, evolving from curios to cultural treasures.

Globalization: A Created Mechanism for the Restructuring of Developing States

Nathan Down • Jan 31 2016 • Essays

Globalization tends to work to the detriment of developing states and has been a powerful tool employed by Northern states with a recent proliferation of modern players.

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