Dr Frederick Kliem is a Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. His research interests include regional integration and multilateralism in Asia and Europe. At the Centre for Multilateralism Studies, he studies ASEAN, Southeast Asia and geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific. He is also Consultant on ASEAN-EU matters to EU consortia in Brussels. His latest publication is ‘Asia’s Troubled River: Dam(n)ing or Managing the Mekong?’, Journal of Greater Mekong Studies (2020).