International Relations in India & Beyond
Vietnam’s ongoing crackdown on corruption can inspire those who want to put a graft-ridden and economically tumbling Cambodia back on its feet. Powerful Vietnamese politicians found guilty of corruption have suffered the consequences. In...
At the top of the foreign policy agenda for US president-elect, Joe Biden will be dealing with Chinese military expansionism, which threatens stability in south-east Asia and beyond. The cross-party consensus in the US...
Cambodia’s most famous architect, the late Vann Molyvann, said that “cities should be built not by landfill but by incorporating water into their design.” His advice was ignored, and Cambodians displaced by floodwaters are now...
There are many costs to Cambodia from the blind reliance on China pursued by our Prime Minister, Hun Sen. There is firstly the political and military risk created by a strategic alliance with an...
As an observer from a developing country, and a former finance minister of Cambodia, I note with surprise two flaws in the strategies being planned or implemented by Western countries to counter the COVID-19...
The lessons of India’s major microfinance crisis of 2010, when more than 200 borrowers committed suicide, have still not been learned. Many of the same mistakes are still being made in Cambodia today. India’s...
Regardless of their political systems, all countries of the world must ensure the renewal of their leadership teams to be able to progress. This is the only way to bring in new blood and...
Defining a coherent public health policy in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic is, for states and the international community, an attempt to square a circle. Because there is no vaccination or treatment for COVID-19, public authorities...
The military chain of command is sacrosanct: so too is the responsibility of commanders to protect those in their charge. Coronavirus recently brought these two principles into seemingly irreconcilable conflict. The commander of the...
…And then February 31 arrived, the clocks stopped and March was cancelled. Every day is dystopian in Cambodia. Prime Minister Hun Sen told the country that February 31 was the only date that COVID-19...
