Anthea McCarthy-Jones The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has recently identified the Pacific as a transit point for drug trafficking routes. It stated that the ‘drug situation in the Asia Pacific has both evolved and deteriorated in recent years despite cross-border travel restrictions and lockdowns put in-place during the pandemic’. Drug trafficking poses significant challenges […]
Category: Asia-Pacifico
Yose Rizal Damuri The connection between economic integration and political security has long attracted attention. Integration through intensive trade and investment relations has led to greater interdependence and made conflict more costly, helping states to maintain peace and stability. But interdependence can also increase the risk that geopolitical tensions might turn into open conflict. An […]