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Has democracy returned to Bangladesh?
With February’s election giving the Bangladesh Nationalist Party a two-thirds majority in parliament and bringing to an end 18 months of a...
Election leaves Thai army in charge, helped by the ‘Cambodia fac...
Thailand’s snap election of 8 February produced two clear winners, the conservative Bhumjaithai Party and Thailand’s armed forces. The par...
A border on fire: Pakistan, Afghanistan and an unending war
An air strike on a hospital in Kabul on 17 March, which Taliban officials blame on Pakistan, killed more than 400 people and took the confli...
The state of democracy in Pakistan
It is said that the army in Pakistan wields more power than its democratically elected government, a situation that has prevailed for much...
While Trump gambles on Iran Xi doubles down in China
With President Trump preoccupied with the war in the Middle East this may not be the best moment to meet Xi Jinping of China, who has just...
The legacy of ‘regime change’ in Iran
There has been much speculation as to whether the bombing of Iran by Israel and the US and the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Kha...
How Iran governs itself
The Council for Foreign Relations (CFR) based in New York explains how Iran is governed. Democracy Asia publishes this extract with the pe...
