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Judicialisation of land disputes in socialist Asia
Author: John Gillespie, Monash University After the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997, most Asian states moved towards a regulatory model that gave judges a greater role in resolving contentious social...
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Vietnam: will property rights solve land disputes?
Author: John Gillespie, Monash University Something that was previously unthinkable has been happening in Vietnam in the last few years: prominent retired Vietnamese officials, national assembly...
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Vietnam’s land law reforms: radical changes or minor tinkering?
Author: John Gillespie, Monash University The Vietnamese government is currently mulling over six-million public responses to proposed amendments to the Land Law. Most responses concern land grabs by...
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Bloggers keep the windows open in Vietnam’s constitutional debates
Author: John Gillespie, Monash University Under President Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party is using the Seven Prohibitions to shut down discussion about liberal constitutional reform. In...
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Social media extends life of resistance for Vietnamese land holders
Author: John Gillespie, Monash University In recent weeks, long running land disputes in Vietnam have begun to change shape. On 16 April, villagers in My Duc district on the outskirts of Hanoi held...
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What is socialist about socialist East Asia?
Author: John Gillespie, Monash University On the 100th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution, the general secretaries of Asia’s ruling communist parties, Xi Jinping in China and Nguyen Phu...
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