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By failing to address rising discontent with free trade, the World Trade Organisation’s upcoming ministerial conference is set to underdeliver.

Ken Heydon is a former Australian trade official and senior member of the OECD Secretariat, and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His latest boook is The Trade Weapon: How Weaponizing Trade Threatens Growth, Public Health and the Climate.

Millions voted against Pakistan’s powerful military establishment, but whether the military high command will be able to digest and move on from PTI’s electoral success remains unclear.

Imtiaz Gul is Executive Director, Centre for Research and Security Studies, Islamabad.

As Prabowo Subianto looks set to win in the Indonesian election, a significant mandate could shape the political persona he will adopt as President.

Liam Gammon is a Research Fellow in the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research at The Australian National University.

Dan Slater is Professor of Political Science and incoming Director of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies at the University of Michigan.

Francis E Hutchinson is a Senior Fellow and Co-ordinator of the Regional Economic Studies and Malaysia Studies Programmes at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. He holds a PhD in Public Policy and Administration from the Australian National University and degrees from the Universities of Cambridge and Sussex. Francis’ research interests include governance, state-business relations, federalism, decentralization, and industrialization in Southeast Asia. He has written or edited five books including...

Without democratic compromise, Malaysia is quickly becoming a compromised democracy, writes Dan Slater (University of Michigan).