What is ‘policy’? Where is it coming from? Who is formulating it and how? What are the characteristics of existing policies? These questions concern the nature of (public) policy processes in...
Potoae Roberts Aiafi
Michael De Alessi
Archipelago of gear: the political economy of fisheries management and private sustainable fisheries initiatives in Indonesia
Indonesia is a vast archipelago, stretching over 3,000 miles and including the heart of the Coral Triangle. Fisheries and marine conservation is fundamentally important to Indonesia's large population, but to date the...
Riccardo Alfieri
Bumping, precedents, and de‐escalation in South China Sea: options for the United States and China
The article departs from a much needed clarification about the 2 overlapping conflicts in South China Sea: sovereignty dispute between China and ASEAN countries, and freedom of navigation dispute between China...
Matthew Allen
Beyond life support? Reflections on Solomon Islands after the Regional Assistance Mission
The Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands was conceived in the ‘state-building moment’ that informed Western responses to ‘state failure’ over the past two decades. That moment has Now passed...
Gianna Gayle Herrera Amul
Progress in tobacco control in Singapore: lessons and challenges in the implementation of the framework convention on tobacco control
Singapore has implemented tobacco control policies since the 1970s, more than three decades before it became party to the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control—the first evidence-based global...
The state of tobacco control in ASEAN: framing the implementation of the FCTC from a health systems perspective
Government and governance | Asia
Using a tobacco control framework that combines demand-reduction and selected supply-reduction measures according to a health system’s building blocks, this article aims to assess the state of Framework Convention on Tobacco...