As Australia faces compounding risks to its national security, our government’s ability to handle them appropriately and efficiently will continue to be tested. One significant element of a national readiness strategy that’s missing from most …
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It may have gone unnoticed as the world continued to deal with the coronavirus pandemic that the Chinese Communist Party has taken the opportunity to effectively kill off Hong Kong’s ‘one country, two systems’ experiment. …
In Thailand, harsh laws, military-backed governments, rewritten constitutions, flawed electoral processes and controls on public expression have long restricted citizens from engaging in meaningful political discourse. General Prayut Chan-o-cha seized power in a military coup …
‘God and the people are the source of all power … I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever’, declared Haiti’s François ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier in 1963. And so he did, …
Southeast Asia is a wondrous experiment in comparative politics. Perhaps a galactic professor peers down, testing a spectrum of political systems, from the Malay Muslim monarchy of Brunei to the world’s largest Muslim democracy in …