A visit to the party organisation at the centre of China's anti-corruption drive is a lesson in the concealments of power.
The great wave of English education in China is slowly affecting the educational system as a whole. And the centrality of education in Chinese society means that this transformation is having an influence not only on what people can say but perhaps also how they think.
Nonviolent civil resistance is not immune to perpetuating existing structural and cultural violence unless nonviolence activists and researchers learn to develop strategies for identifying 'negative nonviolence' acts which support oppression.
Lawlessness in the Thailand-Myanmar border area, along with inconsistent immigration policy in Thailand, has led to a situation where illegal migrants who have no papers are left in limbo
Indonesia is under a spell of change. But does the election of Joko Widodo really represent a clean break for the dirty politics of the past?
While democracy may seem to be working in Indonesia on a theoretical level, a look into the impoverished province of Papua tells a different story.
“Can you not hear that clock ticking? Or is that just the beating of our hearts pounding ever harder? Time is not on our side; it is on the side of the adversary.”
China’s rapid growth is placing increasing demands on natural resources in the region but Beijing’s political rise is encouraging the dictatorship to flex its muscles as associated tensions rise.
Hong Kong’s deep reservoir of discontent is not, as Beijing contends, the result of efforts by “anti-China” forces. They are the local reactions of people who have no influence over policies that are rapidly changing their home.
Despite Hiroshima's scars, history cruelly reveals one instance after another in which the US elected to maintain the power of nuclear weapons for statecraft, squandering opportunities to de-escalate in favor of building the case for the national security state.
Indonesia’s religious minorities have no recourse when the state becomes a passive audience to violent attacks carried out by militant groups. This failure is leading justice into a state of silence.