Contemporary Southeast Asia

The April 2024 edition of @ContemporarySEA is now out and free to download! The focus of this special is "Domestic Determinants of Southeast Asia's Relations with the United States and China" bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/79…

Pleased to announce that @ContemporarySEA #SCOPUSCiteScore2021 for 2020 is 1.9 (1.4 2019) and #JCR2021 Journal Impact Factor for 2020 is 1.3 (0.717 2019). @ContemporarySEA is going from strength to strength! @ISEAS

Malcolm Cook and @IanJStorey's "The Impending Biden Administration and Southeast Asia" is now out! The first, we hope, in a series over the next four years -- and maybe beyond! #IndoPacific #China #Biden #SoutheastAsia #SouthChinaSea

In the December 2020 issue of @ContemporarySEA @ISEAS Joel Sawat Selway explores why Pheu Thai lost support in northern #Thailand in the March 2019 elections in. bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/24…

Read about how #Indonesia's efforts to resolve land-use conflicts in the forestry sector has faced many challenges over the decades in the December 2020 issue of @ContemporarySEA @ISEAS. bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/24…

Here is my piece on the looming crisis of Indonesian language studies in Australia insidestory.org.au/turning-away-f…

How has #China tried to build influence in mainland #SoutheastAsia at the ideational level using #Buddhism as a cultural resource since the advent of #BRI? To find our read @GregoryVRaymond's article in the December 2020 issue of @ContemporarySEA @ISEAS bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/24…

December 2020 issue of @ContemporarySEA @iseas is out! Download free "Naming and Shaming China: America’s Strategy of Rhetorical Coercion in the South China Sea" by Wendy He Qingli and Haridas Ramasamy. #SouthChinaSea bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/24…

Join the editor of @ContemporarySEA @IanJStorey on Tuesday 15th September at 10 am Singapore time as he talks to @EvanLaksmana @CSISIndonesia about #China-#Indonesia defence cooperation in the era of Covid-19. #SouthChinaSea iseas.edu.sg/mec-events/cov…

Join the editors of @ContemporarySEA @lhhiep and @IanJStorey for a joint @ISEAS -East Asia Institute webinar "The South China Sea Dispute: US-China Rivalry, Lawfare and the Prospects for a Code of Conduct" on Friday 18 Sept #SCS #SouthChinaSea #Lawfare iseas.edu.sg/mec-events/the…

Please join the co-editor of @ContemporarySEA @lhhiep and Tuong Vu on Friday 4 September @ISEAS as they discuss the Vietnamese Communist Party's 13th National Congress scheduled for early 2021 #Vietnam iseas.edu.sg/mec-events/vie…

Still time to sign up for tomorrow's webinar in which the co-editor of @ContemporarySEA @IanJStorey talks with @MurrayHiebert1 @CSIS @SoutheastAsiaDC about his terrific new book "Under Beijing's Shadow: Southeast Asia's China Challenge". Should be great! iseas.edu.sg/mec-events/und…

ISEAS Commentary by Malcolm Cook - In a pandemic-afflicted year when the country braced itself for smaller remittances from its overseas workers, the Philippines has seen a lower-than-expected fall in such inflows. #Philippines #OverseasFilipinoWorkers iseas.edu.sg/media/commenta…

With the recent #JoloBlasts it's worth revisiting @QuintonTemby's groundbreaking article in the April 2019 issue of @ContemporarySEA "Cells, Factions and Suicide Operatives: The Fragmentation of Militant Islamism in the Philippines Post-Marawi" bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/23…

Join the co-editor of @ContemporarySEA @IanJStorey as he talks to @MurrayHiebert1 @CSIS @SoutheastAsiaDC about his fascinating new book "Under Beijing's Shadow: Southeast Asia's China Challenge" on 3 September @ISEAS iseas.edu.sg/mec-events/und…

Where is #Vietnam heading more than 25 years after the introduction of economic reforms? Read Olga Dror's assessment of Thaveeporn Vasavakul's book "Vietnam: A Pathway from State Socialism" in the August 2020 issue of @ContemporarySEA @ISEAS bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/24…

In the August 2020 issue of @ContemporarySEA @ISEAS Kurniawati Hastututi Dewi from @lipiindonesia examines how contested ideas of motherhood identity were expressed in the campaign rhetoric of the 2019 Indonesian elections. bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/24…

Tomas Larsson's review of Duncan McCargo's latest book, "Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand", can be downloaded for free from the August 2020 issue of @ContemporarySEA @ISEAS bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/24…

What's the relationship between good governance and the performance of special economic zones in Indonesia? Find out by reading @B103SH and Siwage Dharma Negara's article in the latest issue of @ContemporarySEA @ISEAS #Indonesia bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/24…

Join @ContemporarySEA's co-editor @IanJStorey on Monday 31 August @ISEAS as he speaks with @sstrangio about his terrific new book "In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century". iseas.edu.sg/mec-events/sou…