Hadi Enayat is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations at the Aga Khan University in London. He is a political sociologist specialising in the Middle East with a particular focus on religion, law, political theology and intellectual history. The notion of national or civilisational ‘exceptionalism’ was first used in…
Dr Noel M Morada is a Visiting Research Professor at the Nelson Mandela Centre for Conflict Resolution, Atrocities Prevention and Human Security, Chulalongkorn University. He is also a Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect at the University of Queensland and Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Working Group at Global…
Dr Ines Aščerić-Todd is a Lecturer in Arabic and Middle Eastern Cultures at the University of Edinburgh Sufism – Islamic mysticism – encompasses a set of beliefs and practices used by many Muslims as a way of drawing closer to God and attaining personal experience or knowledge of the Divine. Sufism has a long history…
Dr Choong Pui Yee is a senior lecturer at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at University Malaya. She teaches ASEAN studies and security issues in Southeast Asia. In January, a director and a producer of the Malaysian fictional film Mentega Terbang were charged with “wounding the feelings” of others under Section 298 of the Penal…
Dr Mina Roces is a Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture at the University of New South Wales This year marks fifty years since President Ferdinand Marcos signed the labour code that sent Filipino workers all over the world leaving around ten million/ ten percent of the population as migrants today. Since then, migration has…
Herald van der Linde is the author of Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia’s Greatest Empire and HSBC’s Chief Asian Equity Strategist As diplomatic showdowns go, this summit was without parallel. In a grand pavilion in the magnificent grounds of the royal palace of Singasari in eastern Java, an envoy from Kublai Khan, probably the…
Professor Chris Alden (Director of LSE IDEAS) and Professor Alvaro Mendez (Director of the LSE Global South Unit) co-authored China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics The rising fortunes of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) over the last decades launched an economic and social transformation every bit as consequential as the onset of…
Dr Christoph Bluth is Professor of International Relations at the University of Bradford South Korea, in the 21st century, is facing a complex security environment as one of the few liberal democratic states persistently threatened by its neighbour and, therefore, a frontline state in the the emerging geopolitical configuration of the region. The persistent conflict…
Dr Punchada Sirivunnabood is Associate Professor of Political Science at Mahidol University in Thailand After eleven months as Prime Minister of Thailand, real-estate tycoon Srettha Thavisin, backed by the Pheu Thai-led coalition, has not yet successfully implemented any policies promised during his campaign. These include Pheu Thai’s signature 10,000 baht digital wallet, the Thai soft…
Dr J E Hoare is an academic and historian specialising in Korean and Chinese studies and was formerly a career diplomat in the British Foreign Office. In London on 12 December 2000, Sir John Kerr, the Permanent Undersecretary of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Kim Chun Guk, head of the European Department of…
