ISSN 2674-8053

Author: Anne Marie Gattini Nassif

Anne Marie Gattini Nassif is an International Relations student at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing / ESPM. Interested in learning other cultures, mainly by studying different languages. Is a volunteer attendant at the Immigrant Reference and Service Center (CRAI), in Sao Paulo, and Junior Analyst at the Center for Asian Studies and Business / NENA, from ESPM.
Authoritarianism: the double-edged sword of Southeast Asia
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Asia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

Authoritarianism: the double-edged sword of Southeast Asia

PAD Demonstration. Sukhumvit Road. Bangkok. 20th October 2008. The word diversity can define Southeast Asia. There are so many dialects, ethnicities, peoples and religions in just 4.100.000 km², that the uniqueness of the region and the entire subcontinent becomes consensual. A China de Mao Zedong, is a pattern that is repeated today in Southeast Asia, when the authoritarian government took the first steps to eradicate poverty and homogenize the population creating the mainstays of contemporary China. The process was driven by Deng Xiaoping, in 1979, when starting the opening of the country to the world. Like a mirror, the southeast asia, marked by such culturally different countries has been converging in an intriguing pattern: fragile democracies, authoritarian governments and the general development of ...
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Vietnam and the new coronavirus
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Asia, Vietnam

Vietnam and the new coronavirus

Vietnam had several factors that could lead the coronavirus to a public health crisis, starting with the extensive border with China, first epicenter of the pandemic, a high population density with low per capita income and a precarious health system. However, the country drew the attention of the international media for the mastery that has been controlling the number of cases and mainly, the number of deaths from the disease. The first cases in the country occurred in late January, from neighboring countries. Logo, the government stopped flights from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan and shortly thereafter closed all borders. Fast and accurate measurement was essential for successful control against the virus. The fragile health system would not allow a large nude to be purchased...
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The Philippine binomial: economic development will only be possible with political repression?
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Philippines

The Philippine binomial: economic development will only be possible with political repression?

The complexity of the scenario Filipino politician resides in the majority dependence on interpersonal relations. The great breadth of the patriarchal power of the “cordial Brazilian man”, too is present in Philippine society, which can be explained in a way the similarities in the Iberian colonization of both countries, as well as the wide corruption structures in the country, that can also be considered similar “Iberian heritage”. For Filipinos, the power of a family is not necessarily related to wealth, but with the people she can influence, both in the middle classes and the poorest sections of the population, who rarely run for public office. In this symbiotic collusion, to win elections in the provinces, the influential families of ...
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economic transformations in Myanmar in the process of restoration of democracy by the government of the National League for Democracy, de Aung San Suu Kyi
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Asia, Studies, Myanmar

economic transformations in Myanmar in the process of restoration of democracy by the government of the National League for Democracy, de Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar, the largest country in Southeast Asia, has a population of approximately 53 millons of citizens, in an area of 676.578 km². Strategically located close to China, India and Bangladesh, the country plays a significant role both geographically, politically and economically in the region considered to have the greatest economic advance in the world. According to a report published by the Asian Development Bank, the continent's global domestic product will grow by 52% up until 2050, that is, more than half of the world growth rate. According to the opinion of a round table of the United Nations Development Industry, “... Asian countries have started to move away from the low per capita income that has haunted them for decades and have achieved higher rates of ...
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Study: Myanmar (Burma)
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Asia, Studies, Myanmar

Study: Myanmar (Burma)

THE Burma history Myanmar is a Southeast country Asian that borders and frequently interacts with areas that have been great civilizations: among others, India and China. Your current neighbors include Bangladesh, Laos and Thailand. The country's cultural differences were derived mainly from the interaction of ethnicities and religions around these borders. Buddhist concepts, for example, came from India, and many Northern Myanmar groups speak Sino-Tibetan languages. Burmese civilization developed at the foot of the Himalayas, off the river Ayeyarwady, pillar of life and the cultural and economic development of the territory. Your economy throughout history has been marked by agriculture, mainly cultivation of rice, as well as with....
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