Thailand’s heavy reliance on Middle Eastern energy and fertiliser imports has left it vulnerable to the economic fallout from the 2026 US–Israel war on Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Indonesia’s fixation on the rupiah–US dollar exchange rate has made monetary policy too responsive to US and global conditions, leaving domestic activity to absorb external shocks. Proposals to ...

China today is actively shaping the security architecture which it inhabits. In a layered manner, from Myanmar to Djibouti, Beijing has increased its presence, exerting influence to protect its ...

Rommel Banlaoi, PhD, is the President of Philippine Society for International Security Studies and Chairman of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research. He used to teach at ...

Greg Raymond is Associate Professor at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre in the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, and is a leading expert in Southeast Asian politics, defence and ...

Tesla’s decision to set up its electric vehicle (EV) car manufacturing in neighbouring Malaysia was a blow to Indonesia’s efforts to lure investments for building an end-to-end EV supply chain ...

Despite the impact of super Typhoon Yagi and a stormy geopolitical landscape, Vietnam’s GDP grew by 7.09 per cent in 2024, exceeding international forecast figures. But 2024 was not just a reset for ...

From May 2020 Beijing blocked the import of roughly a dozen Australian goods for which China was the major market, cutting imports worth around AU$20 billion (US$13.4 billion) annually. The ...

A quiet revolution is underway in academia, reshaping how the world understands itself. After decades of Western dominance, area studies programs have declined across the United Kingdom, Australia, ...

Forestry-based carbon trading schemes are an emerging market-based approach that allow nations and corporations to offset their carbon emissions by investing in forest conservation and sustainable ...

We are living in a world with three leading great powers — all with explicitly revisionist aims when it comes to the international ‘rules-based order’. For those accustomed to thinking about global ...