I co-authored an essay, published by East Asia Forum in May 2020, on how to make Indonesia’s project to build a new capital successful.

In a December 2019 blog post for Brookings, three months before the Covid-19 pandemic, I wrote about the coexistence of peace and war.

In this Brookings blog post, co-authored with Alex Arifianto, we called the upcoming election a “statistical dead heat”.

In a December 2018 blog post for Brookings, I predicted that the UN’s new Global Compact on Migration will fail due to political resistance.

In a June 2018 blog post for Brookings, I wrote that “deinstitutionalization” is leading to lives that will be nasty, brutish, and short.

This Brookings blog post sketched out my rationale for a new policy research project on the global challenge of urban youth unemployment.

In a January 2018 blog post for Brookings, I noted how strong the economy is despite the ethnic cleansing operation against the Rohingya.

In a November 2017 blog post for Brookings, returning from a visit to Myanmar, I wrote about US policy in reaction to the Rohingya crisis.

In a Brookings podcast in September 2017, I was interviewed about the merciless ethnic cleansing operation against the Rohingya in August.

In a September 2017 blog post for Brookings, I tried to explain the complex origins of the Rohingya crisis in a Q and A format.

In an August 2017 Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post, I wrote that it’s wrong to blame Aung San Suu Kyi for the Rohingya crisis.

In this blog post, I recalled Teddy Roosevelt’s “speak softly and carry a big stick” and contrasted this to Trump’s emerging foreign policy.

In April 2017, The Globalist blog published a short version of my Brooking paper on separating the World Bank from the IMF.

In a March 2017 blog post for Brookings, I put Aung San Suu Kyi’s peace process in the context of Myanmar’s decades long civil war.

In this blog post, I recalled Teddy Roosevelt’s “speak softly and carry a big stick” and contrasted this to Trump’s emerging foreign policy.

In this Brookings blog post, I tried to explain the difference between private sector business deals and government policy decisions.

In this Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post, I explained why Aung San Suu Kyi lacked the power to stop mistreatment of the Rohingya.

For the East Asia Forum, I wrote that “consolidating power”, a key to President Jokowi’s success, would be key for Aung San Suu Kyi too.

For the Brookings blog, I suggested that being respected is a better foreign policy objective for the USA than being loved or feared.

In this Brookings blog post, I described the unprecedented growth of mobile telephones, skipping 2G technology for a 3G smart phone system.