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Congratulations go to Dr Shannon Brincat who was presented with the ISA Theory Section Best Paper Award 2015 at the International Studies Association (ISA) Conference held in New Orleans last month. The International Studies Association strives to connect globalscholars, practitioners and students in the field of International Studies. Dr Brincat won the ISA Theory Section […]

Griffith Asia Institute Featured Publication Purchase the book from University of Hawai’i Press Written by Dr Jack Corbett Politicians everywhere tend to attract cynicism and inspire disillusionment. They are supposed to epitomize the promise of democratic government and yet invariably find themselves cast as the enemy of every virtue that system seeks to uphold. In […]

Students and professionals across the Asia-Pacific will now enjoy greater access to cross-border education, training and internships in the region following the launch of a new APEC Scholarship and Internship Initiative. The initiative aggregates sponsored study and career development exchanges offered by universities and companies inAPEC member economiesand supports the creation of new opportunities by […]

Article by Emeritus Professor Colin Mackerras AO from the Griffith Asia Institute The coming year in the Chinese zodiac and East Asian cultures is the ‘year of the羊’, pronounced yang in standard Chinese. The word can mean ‘sheep’, ‘goat’ or even other similar horned animals, like ‘gazelle’. If we want to be specific, a goat […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) may seem like science fiction but artificial intelligence systems are incorporated into a wide array of things ordinary people use on a daily basis. Search engines, computer games, social media, satellite maps – all of them have complex AI systems that help bridge the gap between individuals and information. In early December […]

Congratulations to Griffith University’s 3rd Step Enterprises for making it to the semi-final of the The mai Bangkok Business Challenge @ Sasin 2015. The mai Bangkok Business Challenge was created in 2002 as an independent competition to foster entrepreneurship amongst MBA graduates in the Asian region. The semi-finalists are five Gold Coast-based MBA students, Andrew […]

Ten Turkish nationals werereportedly detained by Shanghai police for allegedlysupplying passports to terror suspects from China’s Xinjiang region. It follows arrests made late last year of Chinese nationals who had allegedly purchased falsified Turkish passports. The move is another attempt by the Chinese government to quell the rising ethnic violence in the Xinjiang region. Many […]