ARTICLES

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.

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

9 Mar 2023

Indonesia Shepherding an ASEAN Digital Community

Maria Monica Wihardja|Ibrahim Kholilul Rohman

A truly regional digital community with borderless transactions and equitable access to online services must start with actual progress in the smallest of goals for an ASEAN-wide digitisation and digitalisation.

ASEAN ASEAN Unity Indonesia Indonesian Economy

8 Mar 2023

ASEAN’s Engagement in the Indo-Pacific

Pongphisoot Busbarat|Richard Javad Heydarian|Hoang Thi Ha|Shafiah F. Muhibat|Bich Tran

ASEANFocus invites experts to assess ASEAN’s engagement in the Indo-Pacific and how the region can advance its role in shaping the regional architecture amid the shift in the geopolitical landscape.

ASEAN ASEANFocus Indo-Pacfic Regional Cooperation Security

8 Mar 2023

Promoting Global Digital Supply Chains in ASEAN

Sithanonxay Suvannaphakdy|Pham Thi Phuong Thao

Sithanonxay Suvannaphakdy and Pham Thi Phuong Thao discuss key challenges facing ASEAN in promoting digital supply chains amid the shift of multinational corporations’ (MNCs) operations to the region.

ASEAN ASEANFocus Digitalisation Global Value Chains Supply Chains