In 2013, British American Tobacco (BAT) returned to Myanmar a decade after it had left the country under pressure from civil society, international organizations, and the government of the United Kingdom....
‘Japan is back’: autonomy and balancing amidst an unstable China–U.S.–Japan triangle
International relations | Asia
Japan’s security policy has changed dramatically in recent years. The country balances harder against China, and its armed forces are increasingly autonomous from their American counterparts. What explains Japan’s growing autonomy...
‘Climate refugees’: an Oceanic perspective
The primary argument of this article seeks to highlight the irresponsible and insensitive categorisation of the Pacific peoples as ‘climate refugees’. International actors’ interpretation and use of such a term is...
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A framework for understanding aid effectiveness determinants, strategies and tradeoffs
Prominent reform agendas for aid abound. How do they relate to each other? This article tries to organise the aid reform literature by proposing a general framework for thinking about the...
A little less conversation? Track II Dialogue and transboundary water governance
Foreign aid donors are increasingly investing in the good governance of freshwater resources in developing countries. One method used by many such programs is Track II Dialogue—informal discussions between government and...
A new regional Cold War? American and Chinese posturing in the Pacific
International relations | Asia
It is often argued that the United States and Chinese engagement in the Pacific manifests a clash of foreign policies that mimics the cold war confrontation of the post-World War II...