North Korea Tactic: Discredit Reports of Human-Rights Abuses

In response to UN inquiry North Korea targets and discredits escapees and their tales of torture and abuses
Steven Borowiec
March 24, 2015

Confronting Islamic State Group: Coalition of Rivals?

Sunni-Shia divide complicates US, UK uniting regional coalition to fight Islamic State terrorists
Shashank Joshi
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ASEAN Paralysis Gives China Free Hand in South China Sea

Tensions run high over Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea, as ASEAN fails to reach consensus
Bertil Lintner
August 12, 2014

Global Casualty of an Escalating Local War

Local conflict in Ukraine takes global victim, and Russia plays politics with tragedy
David R. Cameron
July 24, 2014

Timor-Leste: Lessons of a Failing State?

Timor-Leste, struggling since independence in 2002, cannot take international generosity for granted
Loro Horta
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China’s Push in the South China Sea Divides the Region

ASEAN mum, impotent over Chinese rig and claims in the South China Sea
Murray Hiebert
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