a cross-university collaboration
Republic of China, another name of Taiwan, is a quasi-independent state in the East Asian region that is showing the world that one can and will make it to freedom if people are connected by the …
Continue Reading about Taiwan’s Road to Freedom by Anna Meomutli →
Recent events in Nepal suggest that communism may be acting as an obstacle to the country’s democratic progress. According to the …
Over the past two decades nations around the world have collectively fallen into the hands of populist leaders. From the long-lasting global stronghold of the United States the developing upheaval of …
Continue Reading about Japan Evades Populism but Sets the Stage for Future Trouble by Riham Amin →
In Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan(LDP) has controlled the government for over sixty years, excluding brief interruption in 1993 and 2009. LDP reassumed power in 2012 led by reelected …
Continue Reading about A sign of Discreet Democratic Erosion in Japan by Takatoshi Sawayama →
In a controversial decision, the Philippine Supreme Court voted on May 11 to remove its leader, Maria Lourdes Sereno. The court’s majority ordered Sereno’s seat vacated after acting on a petition …
The erosion of Philippine democracy has set a new stage of opportunity for resistance movements to seize. Indeed, the country is in another “extraordinary time”. What could the role of the National …
From the ashes of the two great world empires - the Byzantine and the Ottoman - gave birth to a modern state of Turkey. It became a republic in 1923 with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as the founder and first …
Duterte’s authoritarian tendencies cannot be plainly framed as symptomatic of the changing times. His exercise of democracy, that is occasionally illiberal, is a product of the confluence of three …
