‘Autocratization’ and democratic deconsolidation
This article is the second in a 10-part series collectively themed "Fostering Democracy Movements," an Asia Democracy Network special 10th...
This article is the second in a 10-part series collectively themed "Fostering Democracy Movements," an Asia Democracy Network special 10th...
Looking at developments in the region in the past decade may reveal not only the reasons why democracy in Asia...
Caught between hope and horror, Asia's LGBTQ+ community grapples with a dishearteningly fragmented reality.
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China's twisted relationship with media has spread beyond the country's so-called “Great Firewall.”
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The pandemic and its fallout are far from over, and Asian nations keep racking up bills upon bills as they...
Authoritarian governments gain more power and militarist groups gain ground in countries that have only recently become democratic, and Asia...
According to the United Nations, the world is witnessing a "potentially catastrophic" global food crisis after two years of a...
The women of Vietnam’s Yao ethnic minority continue to discover new uses for medicinal plants, even as they worry that...
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