Abstract As the Barack Obama administration moved towards its last year in office, the United States’ relations with ASEAN were ostensibly sound. However, Washington’s future…
Country or Region: Southeast Asia
Abstract This article reviews Chinese assertive behaviour towards the Philippines and Vietnam over South China Sea issues in 2011. The article compares and contrasts Chinese…
Abstract The year 2009 witnessed important initiatives by the United States and China in Southeast Asia. Evidence of some sharpening of Sino-American competition to protect…
Abstract It would be difficult to overstate the geostrategic and economic importance of Southeast Asia’s maritime domains. The sea lanes of communication (SLOCs) that criss-cross…
Abstract No living foreigner has shaped contemporary U.S. attitudes toward a single country more than Aung San Suu Kyi. As the seemingly vulnerable international avatar…
Abstract The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the upgrading of India’s erstwhile “Look East Policy” (LEP) to a more action-oriented “Act East” strategy at…
Abstract China’s expanding presence in the South China Sea is now a major source of escalating tensions leading to a spiral of confrontation with the…
Abstract As the weakest of the major powers in Asia, India is understandably the least consequential for the ordering of Southeast Asian security. Nevertheless, India’s…
Abstract President Barack Obama’s mid-November 2012 post-re-election travel to Myanmar, Cambodia, and Thailand, including attendance at the East Asia Summit (EAS) and United States-ASEAN Leaders…
Abstract Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has highlighted Japan’s commitment to Southeast Asia since his inauguration for his second term as Prime Minister in December 2012.…
Abstract Since 2010, there has been obvious escalation of tensions in the South China Sea, coinciding with China’s rise and the United States’ ‘pivot’ to…
Summary How are China’s ongoing sovereignty disputes in the East and South China Seas likely to evolve? Are relations across the Taiwan Strait poised to…
Summary This important book analyzes nuclear weapon and energy policies in Asia, a region at risk for high-stakes military competition, conflict, and terrorism. The contributors…
Abstract The rise of China is the most important development in East Asia in recent times. It presents major opportunities and challenges, if not threats,…
Abstract In the last two decades, most of the IR academia’s attention on Southeast Asian regionalism utilised constructivism and/or realism and has focused on ASEAN…
