On January 5, Bangladesh celebrated the first anniversary of the 2014 general election. The election resulted in victory for incumbent...

The narrative about Islam fed to the American public by the media and politicians revolves around the volatility and violence in the...

They attacked at dawn, descending on a police patrol in the remote Sukma District of Chattisgarh, a state in central India. Emerging from...

Burma may be small, but it has withstood the longest ongoing civil war in the history of the modern world. Since its independence from...

As summer approaches, glossy posters depicting majestic skylines of foreign cities will appear around college campuses nationwide,...

American politicians like to use variants of the phrase “shining city on a hill” when referring to their country’s role in the world....

There were no newly constructed battle arenas, nor were there hordes of soldiers with unloaded guns. The war game that took place on...

In a time of highly tense relations with its powerhouse neighbors, Japanese relations with its notoriously malevolent neighbor, North...

In 2013, 400 million Indian citizens lived on less than $1.15 per day, while half did not have access to adequate sanitation. Despite...

Few, if any, geopolitical and economic relationships are more essential to the global community than those of China and India. Everything...

For the past week, Hong Kong has been the center of the biggest challenge against the Chinese central government since the Tiananmen...

Photo by Ramesh Lalwani. Many ideas and images appear in our collective consciousness when we consider the relics of British colonialism:...

In July, after several months of discussion, the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have finally...

In the last half-century, the idea that a regional and economic power has taken no part in military expansion or even intervention seems...

Nine days after the publication of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” in 1988, India banned the importation and sale of the book. Four...

“A war rages in the far reaches of planet earth. Antarctica’s pristine waters run red with blood.” So goes the melodramatic intro to the...

My last piece addressed the polemic surrounding the Taiwanese government’s intention to ratify the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement...

According to former Liberal Democratic Party minister Hakuo Yanagisawa, if Japan’s “baby making machines” stayed at home, they would...

The South China Sea is home to several island chains rich with resources, land and influence. China and Malaysia are two of the major...

On March 17, the Taiwanese government announced that it was ready to ratify the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA) with China....