by SAMUEL STOYKO BOZOUKOV | Mar 13, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
In a mostly ceremonial parliamentary vote on Sunday March 11, the National People’s Congress of China voted to allow the abolishment of term limits for President Xi Jinping, allowing him to stay in power indefinitely. While China is not nominally a democratic state,...
by IPPEI KATO | Mar 12, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Japan, one of the most peaceful and safest country that has never experienced any configuration after WWⅡ, is facing undemocratic crisis that can change its long-standing neutral position and find its way to garrison state. Japan is one of the rare countries that have...
by Minch | Feb 28, 2018 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
The President recently aroused public reaction by equating the essence of a woman to a functional vagina. In front of more than 200 former communist rebels, the President said, “Tell the soldiers, ‘there is a new order coming from mayor. We won’t kill you. We will...
by Michael Manangu | Feb 24, 2018 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
Upon taking office in 2016, Rodrigo Duterte quickly implemented a campaign pledge to begin amending the 1987 Philippine Constitution. A political outsider from the southern island of Mindanao, Duterte won one of the most highly contested presidential races in...
by Luke Shapiro | Feb 14, 2018 | Columbia University
The world watched in horror as state security forces carried out ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in the fall of last year. Many wondered how such a promising case of democratic reform could go so horribly wrong. In response to widespread protests demanding an end to...
