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Palm Oil: the Grease of Empire by Max Haiven (review)

How can one come to understand palm oil as always both local and global, without offering primacy to one and diminishing the other?

Alice Rudge 04 July, 2022

North Korea and Myanmar: Divergent Paths

Ben Dunant reviews "North Korea and Myanmar: Divergent Paths", which paints Myanmar and North Korea regimes less as outposts of tyranny and more as rational actors.

Ben Dunant 24 May, 2018

Lifting the shadows on a secret war

Hunter Marston reviews Josh Kurlantzick's newly published study of the CIA's covert military operations in Laos.

Hunter Marston 09 February, 2017

Legacies matter in 2017 Myanmar

Gerard McCarthy reviews Marie Lall's Understanding reform in Myanmar.

Gerard McCarthy 01 February, 2017