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Malaysia · MalaysiaIn 1897, a diplomatic incident involving a Straits Chinese trader in Amoy who was arrested by Qing authorities, despite his claims of being a British subject rather than a Chinese national, set into motion a series of public and private debates about British subjecthood and the rights that it ought to accrue to those that held said status. Drawing from contemporary accounts from the time, this paper investigates how Straits Chinese with the stat…Read Article
British subjects by birth, imperial citizens by choice the Straits Chinese and cultural citizenship in colonial Malaya

The pathology of plenty natural resources in international law

Geneva, Switzerland · GenevaInternational organizations (IOs) increasingly interact with transnational economic actors to achieve governance aims beyond the reach of state-based structures of international cooperation. In the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Labour Office (‘Office’) and Director General have advanced the ILO’s decent work mandate in transnational regulatory spaces by orchestrating multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) in which tran…Read Article