Publication
Asia’s Democratic Landscape: The Shifting Sands of Progressive Politics
Saturday, 30 April 2016
Without a question, Asia is a diverse lot. In fact, right until the modern times, people in the region, who constitute much of the world's population, didn't identify themselves as part of the same spatial community or episteme. Beginning with the Greeks, who divided the world between the '…
Local Government and Participatory Democracy: The Quest for Grassroots Politics in Asia (Part II)
Saturday, 10 October 2015
One of the most interesting aspects of globalization is how it has paradoxically created greater demand for and appreciation of localization, that is to say: the growing focus on grassroots democratic participation, preservation of long-cherished cultural traditions, and an…