Climate Change The climate-food-conflict connection in Indonesia May 22, 2019 0 Written by Roberto Ricciuti Image Credit: cak-cak/Flickr, License CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The effect of climate change on the emergence of violent conflict has become one of…
Democracy Malaysia today: The demise of a hybrid? Not so fast… May 14, 2019 0 Written by William Case. Samuel Huntington’s notion of a third wave of democratic transitions captured the many dozens of countries whose regimes transitioned from authoritarian…
Civil Society The Islamist threat and democratic deconsolidation in Indonesia May 9, 2019 0 Written by Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir. Indonesia has witnessed a rise in Islamic conservatism over the last three decades. This is reflected not only in the…
Australia A tale of two Huangs May 7, 2019 0 Written by Euan Graham. Political interference, conducted overseas at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), remains a shadowy and contentious subject. While international…
Civil society Indonesian society and Islam: Identity politics and the making of a majority May 6, 2019 1 Written by Kikue Hamayotsu. Muslim demands and movements calling for the elevation of sharia within the state legal structure, along with numerous mass mobilisations targeting…
BRI China’s economic clout in Vietnam: Bane or boon? May 1, 2019 0 Written by Nguyen Thanh Trung. Vietnam’s Prime Minister Ngyuen Xuan Phuc's visit to Beijing at the end of April is seen as vital for Vietnamese involvement…
APEC Making sense of sub-regionalism and regionalism in Southeast Asia April 12, 2019 0 Written by Fredrik Söderbaum. How to make sense of the varied relationships between sub-regional projects and the larger Southeast Asian region? Although considerable attention has…
BRI China’s embrace of the Greater Mekong Subregion April 11, 2019 1 Written by Joern Dosch. The Mekong is Southeast Asia’s longest river and the twelfth-largest in the world. It originates in Tibet, flows through the Chinese…
ASEAN Sub-groupings and a shifting role for ASEAN April 10, 2019 0 Written by Mathew Davies. Any long-term watcher of Southeast Asia knows that they have to be prepared to master a number of acronyms and opaque…
ASEAN Peacekeeping: An underutilised area of sub-regional security April 9, 2019 0 Written by Nicole Jenne. Over the past decade, there has been a convergence in the policies of the ten states of the Association of Southeast…
