Although such explanations may function as partial explanations, two key factors are particularly important for understanding ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Vitalie Ciubotaru In Japan, there are 76 exclusive-use U.S. military bases, hosted at the ...

An Indian Ocean-focused initiative is welcome. But it will need to support a democratic information-sharing culture, if it is to attract participation from all regional countries.

Recently, the chief prelate or custodian of eight sacred sites in Sri Lanka was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting ...

As it struggles to ship oil through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is looking for alternative land routes to import and export ...

South Korea’s demographic crisis is exposing a deeper problem: how class, gender, education, housing, and family background shape who is considered marriageable.

The Tibetan movement has long been dependent on the personal moral authority of the Dalai Lama. In a post-Dalai Lama world, the Central Tibetan Administration will need to step up.

By tying caste recognition to religion, the law risks excluding those who continue to face the same discrimination it seeks ...

Rare earth projects require a solid commitment across political cycles, a challenge that the United States has not yet been able to overcome.

Under Pyongyang’s new “two states” policy, sports diplomacy has been repackaged as inter-state, not inter-Korean, exchanges.

China did not launch a large-scale, Taiwan-specific military exercise after the Trump-Xi meeting. But that doesn’t mean the ...

Heightened Iranian restrictions on shipping and Tehran’s blockade of the waterway have renewed global concern over strategic maritime chokepoints, shifting analytical and policy attention toward other ...