This paper overviews the recent pattern of civil conflict in the Asia-Pacific region and the reaction of regional powers and intergovernmental organizations to each of the conflicts. The Asia-Pacific is a region that has experienced many incidents of armed internal conflict. While the region was...

China’s provision of development finance to other countries is sizable but reliable information is scarce. We introduce a new open source methodology for collecting project-level development finance information and create a database of Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000 - 2011. We...