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The Taliban: Looming Kingpins of Afghan Opium
What the Afghan government and other actors hoped would be a period of stabilization and decline, or at least…
Pseudo-Secularism in Myanmar
The crossroads of religion and politics, despite its universal prevalence, continues to be overlooked and even…
Will India Continue to Challenge China in 2018?
Earlier this year, China and India accentuated their longstanding strategic rivalry with an unprecedented 10-week…
The Ugly Face of Inequality in India
Income inequality in India has hit its highest level in 92 years. New figures from Credit Suisse suggest the…
The Role of Jihad in the Rohingya Crisis
On November 23rd 2017, Bangladesh and Myanmar announced a tentative deal to repatriate Rohingya refugees to the…
Celebrating ASEAN’s 50th Anniversary: Attainments and…
Founded in Bangkok in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) celebrates its 50th anniversary this…
US Announces Military Withdrawal from Myanmar: Another…
The US State Department has announced that it will be withdrawing military support from Myanmar in the coming weeks…
MIR Meets Ep. 1: Juju Deshormes
We're pleased to present the first episode of MIR Meets, featuring Juju Deshormes outside the Mile End's…
India’s Healthcare Paradox
Recent months of this year have revealed a grim reality of the Indian healthcare system. In August and September of…
The South-Asian Tinderbox: Rising Tensions and U.S.…
With the eyes of the world fixed on Kim-Jong Un and Donald Trump's war of words, another serious escalation has…
Not So Sharif: “Fontgate”, Praetorianism and…
The resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over his family’s offshore wealth revealed by the Panama Paper leaks…
A Day Inside Myanmar’s Unremarkable Parliament
55 years ago, the world watched as Myanmar, formerly Burma, suffered a revolutionary coup d'état in which the…