As America Retreats, Japan and South Korea Can Step Up
INTRODUCERE: The free, open and stable international order is in grave danger, as former Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida presciently warned in 2023.
An Intelligent Trade-Off: AI as a Double-Edged Sword in Southeast Asia’s Climate Battle
INTRODUCERE: Indira Zahra Aridati argues that although AI offers positive benefits for Southeast Asia’s climate battle, the region should not look at its usage through rose-tinted glasses.
South Asia’s Regional Integration: Lessons from Southeast Asia
INTRODUCERE: Despite their proximity and commercial ties that date back centuries, trade and investment between Southeast Asia and South Asia remain way below their potential.
Vietnam’s Response to Controversial Mekong Projects in China, Laos, and Cambodia
INTRODUCERE: Maintaining good relations with China, Laos, and Cambodia is Vietnam’s top foreign policy priority. As land-based neighbours with deep historical and political bonds
Changes in the Indo-Pacific Strain Security on the Korean Peninsula
INTRODUCERE: THE 2025 MUNICH Security Conference in February was a watershed moment and may well be marked by future historians as the “end of the US-led liberal world order and the point when the erosion of liberal hegemony within Western democracies
Will Malaysia Gravitate Further Towards China After President Xi’s Visit?
INTRODUCERE: A flurry of bilateral agreements on travel, transport, logistics, technology, and digital economy signal closer Malaysia-China cooperation in the future.
A Strategic Convergence Indonesia–Türkiye Relations
INTRODUCERE: During his visit to Türkiye in early April 2025, President Prabowo Subianto made agreements with the Turkish government on various sectors
Big-Power Games in the Indian Ocean
INTRODUCERE: IN OCTOBER last year, the decades-long sovereignty dispute over the Chagos Archipelago seemed to have been solved.
India’s MAHASAGAR Vision: Strategic Continuity in the Indian Ocean
INTRODUCERE: India's new MAHASAGAR vision signals strategic continuity in Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi visited Mauritius in March 2025 for a two-day state visit as a guest for the National Day of Mauritius.
Southeast Asia central to global trade response
INTRODUCERE: Southeast Asia was hard hit by US President Donald Trump’s so-called Liberation Day tariffs given its high integration into global value chains.