ARTICLES

16 Jun 2022

Hot and Bothered: Climate Challenges for ASEAN’s Tourism Reopening

Nguyen Thu Giang|Phi Minh Hong

Climate change will drastically affect ASEAN’s tourism industry if regional measures on climate adaptation are not taken to ameliorate its potential negative effects on key tourist sites.

10 Jun 2022

The Need for Power Balance Amidst Rising Great Power Contestations

Daljit Singh

ASEAN and its constituent states must not neglect the crucial importance of maintaining a balance of influence and power between the great powers to secure space for their own independence.

ASEAN AUKUS China-U.S. Relations Quad Security

9 Jun 2022

#LeaveNoOneBehind: Ensuring Universal Energy Access in SEA’s Transition

Prapimphan Chiengkul

ASEAN is unlikely to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 7 as it transitions to cleaner energy. While some encouraging steps have been taken to assure the region’s citizens of energy access, much more needs to be done to bring the entire region on an equal footing.

ASEAN Energy Renewable Energy Sustainable Development

6 Jun 2022

ASEAN Cooperation Post-2025: A Vision for Collaborative Governance

Sanchita Basu Das

As ASEAN emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, there is an opportunity for collaborative governance to boost the region’s capacity to meet future challenges in the economy, geopolitics, and the environment.

ASEAN ASEAN Connectivity Asean Trade Digitalisation Security

2 Jun 2022

ASEAN Re-opening: When the Whole is Less than the Sum of its Parts

Joanne Lin

As individual member states rush to reopen their borders amid the pandemic, ASEAN has again been found to be wanting.

ASEAN ASEAN Connectivity Tourism

27 May 2022

Can a Regional Public Health Emergency Centre Work for ASEAN?

Melinda Martinus

ASEAN’s plan to set up a regional public health emergency centre will support its efforts to reopen the region’s economy to tourism and to finally shed the pall that the Covid-19 pandemic has cast. However, the devil is in the details and ASEAN needs to ensure the plan is not dead in the water.

ASEAN COVID-19 Health

20 May 2022

ASEAN’S Relevance for the New South Korean Administration

Joanne Lin

New South Korean President Yoon has a tough balancing act to pull off for his foreign policy, given his neophyte status on the international stage. ASEAN will be watching carefully to see if great power rivalry will derail ASEAN-ROK cooperation.

ASEAN Diplomacy South Korea

11 May 2022

US-ASEAN Summit: The Audacity of Trope

Joanne Lin

ASEAN leaders will finally meet US President Joseph Biden at the long-awaited US-ASEAN summit in Washington. Whether ASEAN and US can find convergence on regional issues, such as Washington’s desire to manage the rise of China, will be a pressing challenge.

ASEAN ASEAN-U.S. Relations International Relations

26 Apr 2022

ASEAN’s Consumers on the Move: Tertiary Education

Melinda Martinus

ASEAN’s growing consumer market for tertiary education is an encouraging trend that has potential upsides for future regional development. ASEAN’s demand for university qualifications will create opportunities for foreign and local institutions to set up more regional branches.

ASEAN Education

19 Apr 2022

System Reset? Unlocking Domestic Data Flows to Enhance ASEAN E-Commerce

Sithanonxay Suvannaphakdy

ASEAN has been unable to take full advantage of the rapid growth of electronic commerce, given uneven levels of openness in data flows within and across the region. Strengthening domestic and regional regulations in this sector will unleash the region’s potential to help its post-pandemic recovery.

ASEAN Asean Trade Data Security E-Commerce