Carnegie Moscow Center
In managing violent rebellions, democracies must often choose between coercion and accommodation. As the world’s largest democracy, India is no stranger to this trade-off: it has struggled over the past several decades to address several domestic insurgencies.
Europe has huge interests, but little influence, in the Asia-Pacific. The EU must decide what economic and political role it can play vis-à-vis its potential partners in the region.
The Arab uprisings have dramatically transformed the landscape of civic activism. Can citizenship rights and social justice be discussed in countries under conflict and occupation?
Social justice is a regional initiative across the Middle East and North Africa. But what does a regional approach to social justice look like and how can it be implemented?
This conference was the first in a series of dialogues that sought to explore the ideological backgrounds to the unfulfilled promise of social justice in Arab countries and sought to consider the challenges and options forward in the post-Arab uprisings environment.
Calls for dignity, freedom, and social justice in the Arab world have triggered fundamental questions about state–citizen relations and have dramatically transformed the landscape of civic activism.
While many in the West continue to view China as a pillar of authoritarianism, its internal social and political dynamics are shifting rapidly.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is placing a high priority on his country’s diplomacy in Southeast Asia, and policy coordination in the region is now firmly on the U.S.-Japan alliance agenda following last month’s Obama-Abe summit.
On June 3, the Syrian people cast their votes for a new president amidst an ongoing civil war. How will the election results impact the prospects for a political solution?
Former President B.J. Habibie led Indonesia’s democratization process beginning in 1998, making bold reforms toward political openness and decentralization. Thanks in part to his efforts, Indonesia is emerging as one of Asia’s foremost democracies and rising powers.