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vol. 10, issue 3 - December, 2016
The United States, China, and the Money Question
vol. 9, issue 12 - September, 2016
The Hajj and Europe
vol. 8, issue 12 - September, 2015
Singapore at Fifty
vol. 8, issue 11 - August, 2015
A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics
vol. 8, issue 3 - December, 2014
China Dreams and the “Road to Revival”
Protesters demonstrate against nuclear power and a storage facility at Rokkasho following the March 2011 disaster at Japan's Fukushima I power plant, the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl (1986).
vol. 4, issue 9 - June, 2011
'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan
A sign illustrating Level 5 Water Restrictions in Goulburn, New South Wales, 2006, during the worst of Australia's decade-long drought.
vol. 3, issue 7 - April, 2010
Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis
Images like these, of starving children and a malnourished population given to periodic famines, offer a human face to the long standing debate about whether India is "overpopulated" or "underdeveloped".
vol. 3, issue 2 - November, 2009
Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population
A marooned boat on what used to be the shore of the shrinking Aral Sea. After their 1991 independence, there was a guarded optimism surrounding the five countries of Central Asia. Today, despite the region's strategic and petroleum importance, the future of these new states appears beached by struggling economies, corruption, authoritarian politics, and the global drug trade.
vol. 2, issue 10 - July, 2009
Building a New Silk Road? Central Asia in the New World Order
Juche Tower in Pyongyang, North Korea.
vol. 2, issue 3 - December, 2008
Making Sense of the 'Hermit Kingdom': North Korea in the Nuclear Age
'Taiwan is My Country' Sticker.
vol. 1, issue 9 - June, 2008
Taiwan's 2008 Elections: A New Direction for the 'Other China'?

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Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012)
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Ho Chi Minh: A Biography
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The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain

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