Herald van der Linde is the author of Asia’s Stock Market: From the Ground Up, an Adjunct Assistant Professor in finance at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and HSBC’s Chief Asian Equity Strategist. “Asia stock markets rallied as earnings rise” or “Asian stocks sink as COVID spreads” are commonly found headlines on newspaper’s…
Dr Saranzaya Manalsuren is a Senior Lecturer at LSBU Business School, London South Bank University. Her research focuses on themes related to sustainable and equitable managerial practices, supporting the equality, diversity, and inclusion agenda, emotional and cultural intelligence and leadership. The latest IMF report highlights a surge in global uncertainty attributed to a myriad…
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…
