ASEAN India raises its profile in ASEAN November 27, 2017 0 Written by C Uday Bhaskar. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Manila for the 12th East Asia Summit (EAS) from November 13-14th involved a hectic schedule of bilateral…
ASEAN The End of ‘East Asia’ as a Region? November 13, 2017 0 Written by Jaehyon Lee. The leaders of East Asia will meet in the Philippines this week for the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit,…
China China’s South China Sea Policy and the Implications for US-China Relations September 14, 2017 0 Written by Liselotte Odgaard. In December 2016, a Chinese navy vessel seized a US unmanned underwater drone in the South China Sea near the Philippines. The…
South China Sea Duterte’s Populism and Philippine Foreign Policy: Implications for China-Philippine Relations March 10, 2017 1 Written by Aries A. Arugay and Michael I. Magcamit. With barely one year in office, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared bold changes in…
Security The Caliphate’s Influence in Southeast Asia February 14, 2017 9 Written by Rohan Gunaratna. The Islamic State (IS) is eclipsing the traditional influence of al-Qaeda in the Southeast Asian threat landscape. With the waning influence…
China Troubled waters: conflict in the South China Sea explained May 24, 2016 0 Written by John Rennie Short. A United Nations arbitration court will soon rule over the sovereignty of islands in the South China Sea, a territorial…
International Relations Taiwan’s dispute with the Philippines (II): Domestic politics in command May 20, 2013 0 By Michal Thim In my previous post, I examined the general nature of the current dispute between the Philippines and Taiwan and the foreign policy…