International Politics and Society Portfolio

The Nation

What’s Next for Asia’s Social Movements?

May 2020

China’s Secret Weapon Abroad: Tourists

Jan 2020

China Is Exporting Its Anti-Muslim Strategy to India

Oct 2019

The Diplomat

Indonesia's Surprisingly Quiet Election

Apr 2019

Are Indonesia and Malaysia Ready to Stand up for China’s Muslims?

Jan 2019

Japan’s Lessons for Malaysia

July 2018

The Rapid Rise of Censorship in Southeast Asia

Jan 2018

The Fall of Ahok and Indonesia's Future

April 2017

Can Malaysia's Opposition Win?

Mar 2017

Indonesia’s Death Penalty Hypocrisy

March 2015

Is 2014 the Start of an Asian Spring?

November 2014

Foreign Policy

Tiananmen Crushed Asia’s Wave of Rebellion

June 2019

Beijing’s Olympics Paved the Way for Xinjiang’s Camps

Feb 2019

Chinese Tourists Are Beijing’s Newest Economic Weapon

Sept 2018

Islamic Leaders Have Nothing to Say About China’s Internment Camps for Muslims

July 2018

Al Jazeera

Overseas Indonesians vote for country's next president

Apr 2019

Indonesia: What's left of the left?

June 2014

Suharto's ghost stalks Indonesian election

April 2014

Is political Islam rising in Indonesia?

April 2014

World Politics Review

Comfortably Reelected, Indonesia’s Jokowi Opens the Door to China’s Belt and Road

June 2019

Threats Posed by China, Both Real and Imagined, Loom Over Indonesia’s Elections

Mar 2019

Indonesia Takes a Page Out of China’s Playbook to Cement Control Over West Papua

Jan 2019

Equal Times

What does Malaysia’s surprising democratic transition mean for the rest of the region?

July 2018

Death penalty highlights wider injustices in Japan’s legal system

April 2017

Indonesia's tragic war on drugs

May 2016

Putting Nepal’s new constitution to the test

Nov 2015

 Quartz

There is officially no hope for transparent oil development in Uganda

Oct 2013

America’s problem with unions means that the poor are now considered greedy

July 2013

Malaysia’s rich natural resources are standing in the way of an Arab Spring

July 2013