INASIA

Southeast Asia is rapidly becoming a competitive space for geopolitical rivalries. Will U.S.-Chinese tensions create a new Cold War divide in Southeast Asia?

Bangladeshi workers in the Maldives are important to both economies, but more needs to be done to protect the rights of labor migrants.

Does the state have obligations to people who don’t yet exist? Can those people sue? The celebrated case of a pioneering environmental lawyer, today on the InAsia podcast.

Human rights groups have been battered by targeted disinformation. A new behavioral approach to strategic communications offers a way to reclaim the initiative.

From untamed industrial soot to household stoves fueled with wood and plastic waste, Sri Lanka is poisoning its air. New research assesses the problem and points to the path forward.

Much work—and some play—on a U.S. study tour for 15 mid-career Asian diplomats. We meet two of them on this week’s podcast.

India’s cross-border trade ecosystem does not include enough women. The country is leaving money on the table.

It’s the United States’ year to host the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, whose 21 members reach from Russia to the South Pacific and from South America to China. U.S. Senior Official for APEC Matt Murray joins us talk about how the big job is coming along.

The Constitution of Nepal envisions civil society and the media as partners in a democratic society. At a time when South Asia is experiencing a closing of civic space, Nepal has resisted the trend.

Authoritarian tendencies have eroded civic space and democratic norms worldwide, but a forthcoming study suggests that peacebuilders are finding new ways to promote change and hold governments to account.