Asia Human trafficking and the use of social media: Keeping up with the criminals January 11, 2019 0 Written by Foo Yen Ne and Tamara Nair. Commentary Photographs of Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, an abused Indonesian domestic worker who was undernourished, badly bruised and hardly…
ASEAN The Long Read: A Southeast Asia perspective on climate change and negative emission technologies December 10, 2018 0 By David Taylor. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report (IPCC 2018) makes stark reading and raises potentially serious concerns, particularly for those…
Asia India paces towards building Regional Security Architectures, not Alliances September 25, 2018 0 Written by Pooja Bhatt. India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s recent four day visit in August 2018 to Vietnam and Cambodia has seen a deepening…
ASEAN The Indo-Pacific: Clarity, Inclusivity and ASEAN Centrality August 21, 2018 0 Written by Nazia Hussain and Tan Ming Hui At the recently concluded 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Singapore, the ‘Indo-Pacific’ concept featured as the…
Indonesia India and Indonesia’s shared maritime imperatives May 29, 2018 0 Written by C. Raja Mohan. Despite their proximity, physical and cultural, the strategic distance between Delhi and Jakarta has been incredibly vast. Barring a brief moment…
China China and the Quad: challenges for Southeast Asia May 25, 2018 0 Written by Tai Wei Lim. The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or “the Quad” (US, Japan, Australia, and India), is widely regarded as a counter to China’s…
China What the Belt and Road means for Sino-Russian relations March 16, 2018 0 Written by Jingdong Yuan. During his visit to Kazakhstan in September 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB). A month…
South East Asia Thailand’s junta faces mounting pressure March 15, 2018 0 Written by Joshua Kurlantzick. The ruling junta in Thailand, which seized power in May 2014, has repeatedly delayed holding elections. Most recently, after promising to hold…
Uncategorized MILAN '18: India's balancing act with China March 7, 2018 0 Written by C Uday Bhaskar. This week the Indian Navy will be hosting its week-long biennial naval engagement, MILAN 2018, in Port Blair, commencing on March…
China Cracking a Code of Conduct for the South China Sea February 19, 2018 0 Written by Wei-chin Lee. Territorial disputes over the South China Sea (SCS) have been a series of never-ending dramas. While the recent call by the…