ARTICLES

12 Apr 2023

The Geopolitics of Energy Transition in ASEAN

Mirza Sadaqat Huda

Mirza Sadaqat Huda discusses the rising demand for critical minerals and cross-border energy trade and their geopolitical implications to ASEAN.

11 Apr 2023

Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain: Tax Reforms for Timor-Leste’s Trade Integration with ASEAN

Sithanonxay Suvannaphakdy|Pham Thi Phuong Thao

Timor-Leste’s prospective ASEAN membership will potentially deliver both the benefits of expanded trade and losses in trade tax revenues. The latter can be avoided through a clear-cut strategy of tax reforms along with a trade-related adjustment programme.

ASEAN Timor-Leste

5 Apr 2023

Obstacles to Decarbonisation in Southeast Asia

Sharon Seah

Sharon Seah looks at decarbonisation challenges in Southeast Asia’s electricity generation, transportation and agriculture sectors, as well as other factors hampering such efforts.

ASEAN ASEANFocus Climate Change Renewable Energy Sustainable Development

5 Apr 2023

Military Modernisation in Southeast Asia: Learning from the Russia-Ukraine War

Ian Storey

Ian Storey examines the factors driving defence modernisation in Southeast Asia and how the region may draw lessons from the Russia-Ukraine war.

ASEAN ASEAN-Russia Relations ASEANFocus Defence Military

30 Mar 2023

ASEAN Economic Community in Uncertain Times: Can the Indonesian Chair Lead in a Challenging World?

Julia Tijaja

Julia Tijaja highlights several initiatives and Indonesia’s role in re-energising the ASEAN Economic Community.

ASEAN ASEANFocus Economic Development Indonesia Regional Cooperation

30 Mar 2023

Does Food Protection Equal Food Security? Lessons from ASEAN’s Experience with Rice

C. Peter Timmer

Drawing on personal experience as an advisor in Asia, C. Peter Timmer, a leading authority on agricultural development, highlights the role of ASEAN in ensuring food security.

ASEAN ASEANFocus Food Security Global Value Chains

30 Mar 2023

Sustainable Transformation in ASEAN

ASEANFocus Issue 1/2023 is now available for download.

ASEAN ASEANFocus

21 Mar 2023

Policymakers' View

Partnering with ASEAN to Promote Peace in Myanmar

Derek Chollet

The United States stands ready to work with ASEAN and other partners in the region to bring about the return of stability and prosperity in Myanmar.

ASEAN Myanmar Policymakers’ View U.S.

16 Mar 2023

Minilateral Cooperation in ASEAN May Help it Overcome Challenges in Multilateralism

Joanne Lin|Laura Lee

ASEAN regionalism is increasingly seen as being slow and ineffective. Minilateral cooperation could be the way forward to allow a smaller group of like-minded ASEAN countries to work together in a targeted manner to deliver results where it matters.

ASEAN

10 Mar 2023

Environmental Rights as Human Rights in ASEAN: Why Not?

Linda Yanti Sulistiawati

The confluence of ASEAN’s attention on climate change and its far-reaching consequences for the region and international currents supporting the protection of environmental rights opens a small window of opportunity for action.

ASEAN Climate Change