Dong, Wonmo; Morrison, Charles Edward(Honolulu: East-West Center, 1993)
Once impoverished, South Korea is now an economically powerful and influential country. It is also increasingly democratic, and this month inaugurates its first popularly elected, civilian president in three decades, Kim ...
DeVotta, Neil(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center, 2013-02-22)
Neil DeVotta, Associate Professor at Wake Forest University, discusses how “[S]ri Lanka is clearly moving towards an entrenched brand of political authoritarianism under Mahinda Rajapaksa and his cronies.”
Pieris, Saliya(Washington, D.C. : East-West Center in Washington, 2012-10-10)
Saliya Pieris, 2012 Eisenhower Fellow and Attorney-at-Law who represents cases in Sri Lanka's Supreme Court, discusses how "Civil society in Sri Lanka needs to take a more proactive role in challenging the barriers confronting ...
Chasie, Charles; Hazarika, Sanjoy(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center Washington, 2009)
In the first decade after declaring independence in 1947, the Indian state faced numerous challenges to its very existence and legitimacy. These ranged from a war with Pakistan over the state of Jammu and Kashmir immediately ...
Rehman, Iskander(Washington, D.C.: East-West Center in Washington, 2011-03-24)
In March 1996, the waters of the Taiwan Strait were roiled by Chinese live missile firings and massive military exercises. Washington answered Beijing's blunt demonstration of coercive military diplomacy by promptly ...
As the economic crisis swept across Asia in 1997, gutting purchasing power in many countries, one potential silver lining seemed possible: a drop in demand for rhino and tiger parts, tortoises, wild orchids, fragrant woods, ...