Jakarta’s unrest from 25 to 30 August 2025 posed a significant challenge for President Prabowo Subianto’s administration, revealing a government seen as detached from urgent political and economic issues. The largely leaderless protests were driven […]
One of the most challenging security policy issues that Thailand’s current government, led by Acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai (as of late July 2025), faces is the lack of a clear strategy for the ongoing […]
On May 28, 2025, Cambodian and Thai armed forces clashed briefly along the disputed frontier region of Thailand’s Ubon Ratchathani and Cambodia’s Oddar Meancheay Provinces in Chong Bok. The clash resulted in one Cambodian soldier’s […]
Most studies on China-Thailand relations are framed within three conventional paradigms, all of which use the nation-state as the primary unit of analysis. First, the statist paradigm, grounded in realist theory, emphasizes the politico-economic aspects […]
In May 2024, former senator Bam Aquino unveiled his plans for the 2025 midterm elections and announced the formation of a new political party, the Katipunan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KANP) or Society of United Filipinos […]
Although the visit is considered purely diplomatic, signalling that Russia is not isolated, Vietnam signed an important agreement during Putin’s 20-hour visit to Vietnam. President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, arrived in Hanoi early […]
More than twenty years have passed since workers from Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia began migrating to Thailand under different bilateral agreements, and presently, they make up one of the largest groups of workers in the […]
The United States and Vietnam elevated their bilateral relations in September 2023, from Comprehensive Partnership to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP). The US has, in the Vietnamese scheme, skipped over the intermediary step called Strategic Partnership. […]
The 2020s have proven to be a tumultuous decade thus far, marked by a global pandemic and subsequent humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and Gaza. Against the backdrop, nations from the “global south” have emerged as […]
Since October 20, 2024, Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country and Southeast Asia’s largest economy, has had a new president and a vice president: Prabowo Subianto (b. 1951, locally known as Prabowo) and Gibran Rakabuming Raka […]
The Philippines is known as a country that supports political dynasties, and powerful clans have played a major role in the country’s politics for decades. But in the last week of June, Vice President Sara […]
As happened elsewhere, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted Indonesia. It transcended public health, permeating through governance and diplomacy in nations worldwide. Moreover, the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic extend beyond national stability, permeating into […]
The Spring Revolution signifies a grassroots commitment where Myanmar people are the primary source of strength, resilience, and determination. The revolution transcends various boundaries and is sustained by the unwavering unity of Myanmar people; a […]
American Military Aid and Praetorian Agency Strategic considerations motivated US involvement in Cold War Southeast Asia. Containing communism required the construction and maintenance of military bases around rival states. The need for bases resulted in […]
In February 2023, a few months after I departed from my field site in Singapore, the Deputy Prime Minister announced significant changes to Singapore’s housing policies. In his eagerly anticipated budget speech for 2023, Lawrence […]
A scholar portrayed Thailand’s growth as being contentious, with the main issue driving the discussion being who Thailand’s legitimate development actors are (Cogan, 2021) Amnesty International has made headlines and has been accused of being […]
Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the relationship between the two great powers, Russia and China, has been much discussed and debated in international relations. What is the nature […]
In the first 100 days of Srettha Thavisin’s administration, Thailand has witnessed a dynamic period marked by a series of ambitious policy initiatives and strategic efforts to address pressing national and international challenges. PM Srettha […]
The recent political developments orchestrated by Thaksin Shinawatra in Thailand, including his return from exile, strategic alliances, and the election of a Prime Minister from his party, pose a significant threat to Thai constitutional law […]
Agriculture in Vietnam is becoming increasingly participating in the trend of globalization. As a host country of foreign agricultural investment, Vietnam society harbors mixed feelings about agricultural corporations, with both expectations and concerns. On the […]
In May of this year, the Move Forward Party achieved a remarkable victory in the Thai elections; increasing the party’s parliamentary seat count from 81 in the 2019 election to 151 in 2023. However, their […]
On May 14, 2023, a political earthquake shook the Thai body politic. Move Forward, the successor party to the disbanded Future Forward Party, unofficially won 151 of 500 House seats on the back of nearly […]
It is now common knowledge that whenever protest movements could make political gains through digital media and technologies, the regimes these very movements seek to challenge would catch up with their progress. From the 2010-2011 […]
Nobody is ready until everyone is ready Since the initial stage of COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand, the increased use and access of digital devices have become increasing fundamental in the daily life for Thai people. […]
The dual vibrations of “profound changes unseen in centuries” (Wu, 2018) and the Covid-19 pandemic cast severe challenges on the development of globalization. China proposed the Global Development Initiative (GDI) in 2021 (Xinhua, 2022) and […]
In August 2022, the Budget Scrutiny Committee of the lower house of the National Assembly of Thailand approved the Air Force’s expenditure of 369 million baht to cover half of the cost of its planned […]
In 1928, Ho Chi Minh arrived in Siam with the goal of expanding revolutionary bases with the help of Vietnamese migrants in the northeast of the country, close to Vietnam but located beyond the reach […]
The media frenzy blaming Joe Biden for the collapse of Afghanistan’s central government in August of 2021 puzzled me, as did repeated insinuations that the U.S. could have evacuated all Afghanis with pro-American sympathies or […]
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