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Posted 16 January 2019 Why there's a case for giving foreign aid to authoritarian regimes Should democracies give foreign aid to countries that are not democracies?
Posted 09 January 2019 Not so clueless about Papua: an academic's call for more research on Papua Asmiati Malik, Doctoral Researcher in Political Economy in POLSIS, calls for more research on Papua that can contribute to solving complicated problems in eastern Indonesia.
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Posted 07 January 2019 James Mattis: what defence secretary's resignation means for Syria, Afghanistan and NATO, as Trump leans in to Putin The last adult in the Trump White House playground has gone – and the president is throwing his toys around. James Mattis, as defence secretary, was one of three retired generals in the Trump administration whose hope was to contain an ill-informed, temperamental, and unpredictable president.