Abstract This paper examines Cambodia’s socioeconomic development since the early 1990s peace settlement. The country’s economic growth has arguably been the fastest among post-conflict societies,…
Country or Region: Southeast Asia
Summary Law of the Sea in East Asia selects the most prominent maritime legal issues that have emerged since the post-LOS Convention era for a…
Abstract This article explores changes in Japan’s conception of and policy toward security multilateralism in the Asia-Pacific region after the end of the Cold War…
Summary Research on The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is a valuable addition to understanding the political situation in the…
Summary On 22 January 2013, the Republic of the Philippines instituted arbitral proceedings against the People’s Republic of China (PRC) under the United Nations Convention…
Publication Year: 2014 International Relations in Southeast Asia: The Struggle for Autonomy Summary This fully revised and updated edition of Donald E. Weatherbee’s widely praised text…
Summary Acknowledging how the contemporary strategic context is increasingly defined by the rapid growth of major economies as well as the swiftly expanding interest being…
Summary The 21st century has been described as the “Asian Century.” Home to 60 per cent of the world’s population and accounting for one-fourth of…
Publication Year: 2017 China’s Maritime Silk Road and Asia Summary The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR) can be considered as the most significant strategic outreach…
Summary Heightened tensions in the South China Sea have raised serious concerns about the dangers of conflict in this region as a result of unresolved,…
Summary The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted its fifth annual South China Sea conference in July 2015. This compilation features papers from…
Summary With elections in both the Philippines and the United States in 2016, the future of the alliance must be institutionalized to ensure that it…
Summary China has long claimed the ownership of a network of widely-scattered islands and their surrounding waters and resources in the South China Sea. These…
Abstract Since emerging from its century of humiliation, China has repositioned itself as a rising power. China’s great power potential, combined with its latent expansionism…
Abstract Recent literature has aimed to “deconstruct” the notion of a “Sino-Indian rivalry” in Myanmar. The argument is that China’s leverage in Myanmar far outweighs…
