Many institutions of higher education have become conscious of the need to learn more and reflect on how their own histories are entangled with the development of colonial era practices and ideas which persist in the present and are implicated in contemporary structures of inequality and racism. An important component of this self-reflection for…[Read more]

Operation 1027, named after the date on which it began, is the largest challenge to military rule in Myanmar since it seized power in a 2021 coup. Characterised by a greater ability for anti-regime forces to cooperate and coordinate, recent defeats imposed on the junta have resulted in it losing control of economically and strategically…[Read more]

Home to half a million people and measuring just 115 square miles of land distributed over nearly 1,200 inhabited and uninhabited islands, the Maldives is Asia’s smallest country by both population and landmass. However, given its location a few hundred miles south-southwest of India – from where it overlooks some of the world’s busiest sea lanes…[Read more]

Considerable South Asian engagement is essential if China is to realise its broader geopolitical and geostrategic goals as part of the Belt and Road Initiative. Home to both Pakistan, the scheme’s most staunch ally, and India, its greatest opponent, the region presents China with significant opportunities tempered by seemingly irrevocable…[Read more]