Southeast Asia

Interview – Dan Slater

E-International Relations • Aug 20 2024 • Features

Dan Slater discusses the concepts of strength and weakness in democratisation, and how to account for variations in democratisation patterns across Asia.

Review – Navigating Uncertainty

Anthony Toh Han Yang • Aug 18 2024 • Features

Joseph Liow details the global power dynamics shaping Southeast Asia, but adopts an oversimplified framework to analyse the impact of the US-China conflict on the region.

India’s Civilizational Imagination of Southeast Asia

Udayan Das • Mar 12 2024 • Articles

Civilizational narratives are not the driving factors of India’s Southeast Asia policy. They also have been recurring but not dominant themes in policy making.

Review – Practicing Peace

Sarwar Minar • Jun 25 2023 • Features

Aarie Glas describes practices of conflict management in Southeast Asia and South America but questions arise about the applicability of such practices in other regions.

Interview – Georgi Engelbrecht

E-International Relations • Dec 15 2021 • Features

Georgi Engelbrecht talks about his role as a Senior Analyst for International Crisis Group, the Bansamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, next year’s elections in the Philippines and conflict in Southeast Asia.

Interview – Manan Ahmed

E-International Relations • Aug 24 2021 • Features

Manan Ahmed discusses colonial epistemes, Hindustan, memory and Partition, and decolonising the university.

Migration Management and Safe Migration along the Indonesia-Malaysia Corridor

Oanh K. Nguyen • Jun 26 2021 • Articles

Malaysia and Indonesia have worked to create institutions and mechanisms aimed at ensuring that foreign workers travel through safe, regular channels for migration.

Review – Singapore Is Not An Island

Benjamin Tze Ern Ho • Jun 17 2021 • Features

Veteran diplomat Bilahari Kausikan explores the foreign policy dynamics of the island city-state of Singapore, including how it creates and maintains relevance in the region and beyond.

Interview – Frances Cruz

E-International Relations • Jun 17 2021 • Features

Frances Cruz talks about decolonial approaches to IR, as well as the limits of Western-centric framings of the Philippines and Southeast Asia more broadly.

Interview – Ava Patricia Avila

E-International Relations • Apr 11 2021 • Features

Ava Patricia Avila sets out the reasons for the steady military buildup by several Southeast Asian states, the impact on ASEAN, as well as the ways a gender perspective can enrich research on civil-military relations.

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