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Understanding Kashmir, Tackling the Kashmir Problem

Understanding Kashmir, Tackling the Kashmir Problem

By Asia Pacific Memo on December 5, 2014

Memo #319 By Promod Puri – promodpuri [at] blogspot.com The division of the Indian sub-continent in 1947 generated a persistent hostility between India and Pakistan, a hostility dominated by clashing territorial claims over the Kashmir region. On the international stage the Kashmir problem is largely viewed in diplomatic, political, government and media circles with the understanding that the […]

Mongolia – From Sino-Russian Buffer to Conversion Zone

Mongolia – From Sino-Russian Buffer to Conversion Zone

By Asia Pacific Memo on November 28, 2014

Memo #318 By Mendee Jargalsaikhan – mendee [at] alumni.ubc.ca Last autumn, Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin made separate visits to Mongolia, met for a tri-lateral (Russia-China-Mongolia) summit in the Tajikistan capital of Dushanbe during the leadership summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and dispatched their vice-foreign ministers for a working-level meeting in preparation for next […]

Restoring Indonesia’s Direct Regional Elections: Stability in a Divided Society

Restoring Indonesia’s Direct Regional Elections: Stability in a Divided Society

By Asia Pacific Memo on November 19, 2014

Memo #317 Indonesian President Pak Joko Widodo must fight to reinstate direct regional elections to maintain social stability. By Matthew J. Bock – m.bock [at] alumni.ubc.ca and Geoffrey Macdonald – gpmacdonald [at] gmail.com Joko Widodo, referred to as Jokowi, was inaugurated as Indonesia’s seventh president on October 20, 2014. President Jokowi represents a new era of […]

Whither Area Studies?

Whither Area Studies?

By Asia Pacific Memo on November 12, 2014

Memo #316 Advancing the project of Comparative Area Studies and fruitful Area Studies Comparisons: an Intervention from Europe By Jürgen Rüland – juergen.rueland [at] politik.uni-freiburg.de & Mikko Huotari – mikko.huotari [at] merics.de There is no universal ultimate golden mean between disciplinary research and area studies. Viable intermediate positions are eventually dependent on an individual researcher’s […]

‘One Drug with Multiple Names’: Broad Powers and Product Differentiation in the Chinese Pharmaceutical Industry

‘One Drug with Multiple Names’: Broad Powers and Product Differentiation in the Chinese Pharmaceutical Industry

By Asia Pacific Memo on November 5, 2014

Memo #315 By Yifan Wang – yfwang [at] essex.ac.uk Drug regulations in China stipulate that chemical and generic names of drugs are determined by the Chinese Pharmacopeia (Ch.P) and the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), while brand names are chosen by pharmaceutical companies, as long as they are recorded with the SFDA. Some Chinese […]

Music for the Mind? Virtuosity and Performativity in Celebrity Diplomacy

Music for the Mind? Virtuosity and Performativity in Celebrity Diplomacy

By Asia Pacific Memo on October 29, 2014

Memo #314 By Hyung-Gu Lynn – hlynn [at] mail.ubc.ca Does celebrity diplomacy work? If so, based on what measures, why, how and for whom? In the afterglow of bravura passages powerful yet precise, arpeggios determined yet delicate, these questions arose, at least in one small corner of my brain. The United Nations Day concert in the General […]

Canada – China FIPA: Just the Facts, Please

Canada – China FIPA: Just the Facts, Please

By Asia Pacific Memo on October 22, 2014

Memo #313 By Matthew Levine – matthew.a.j.levine [at] gmail.com Canada’s Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement with China (China FIPA), which entered into force October 1, 2014, is a laudable step towards norms-based economic relations in the Asia-Pacific. My two goals here are to briefly introduce key developments in the China FIPA and to put […]

After the Massacre of 2011: Challenges to Peace and Security along the Mekong River

After the Massacre of 2011: Challenges to Peace and Security along the Mekong River

By Asia Pacific Memo on October 15, 2014

Memo #312 By Kai Chen – chenkai [at] zju.edu.cn In the so-called “Mekong River massacre” of October 2011, 13 Chinese merchant sailors working on the Mekong were seized and murdered by members of the Hawngleuk Militia led by its Burmese leader Naw Kham. Later captured in Laos and extradited to China, Naw Kham was found […]

The Perilous Start and Uncertain Future of the Jokowi Era in Indonesia

The Perilous Start and Uncertain Future of the Jokowi Era in Indonesia

By Asia Pacific Memo on October 9, 2014

Memo #311 Editor’s Note: On Friday, October 10, 2014, UBC’s Institute of Asian Research hosted a conference examining the theme, “The Jokowi Era: A New Age for Indonesia?” In advance of this gathering, one of its participants, Dr. Kai Ostwald, provided us his take on what the election of “Jokowi” signified for the world’s third largest democracy.  By Kai Ostwald […]

The Year in Malaysian Politics: Democracy’s Crooked Trajectory

The Year in Malaysian Politics: Democracy’s Crooked Trajectory

By Asia Pacific Memo on October 6, 2014

Memo #310 By Kai Ostwald – kai.ostwald [at] ubc.ca In the run-up to Malaysia’s 13th General Election in May 2013, optimists argued that the country had finally transitioned from decades of semi-authoritarian rule to a competitive de-facto two party system of democracy. The election itself exposed several flaws in the system, namely that high levels […]

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