By Shino Watanabe — Dr. Shino Watanabe is a professor in the Faculty of Global Studies at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. In 2019, Dr. Eto was a Visiting Scholar with the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International…
By Ryosuke Hanada — Mr. Ryosuke Hanada is a research fellow of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). In 2019, Mr. Hanada was a Visiting Scholar with the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)…
By Ryo Sahashi — Dr. Ryo Sahashi is an associate professor of International Politics at the University of Tokyo. In 2019, Dr. Sahashi was a Visiting Scholar with the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)…
By Ditya Maharani Harninda & Aulia Gislir — The origin of Indonesia’s urgency to spur national infrastructure development comes from a thorough evaluation of the country’s economic strengths and weaknesses. According to the Logistic Performance Index (LPI) and its indicators…
By Brian Harding — Southeast Asia is home to many of China’s most high-profile Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects, including Kyakpyu port in Myanmar, a high-speed railway in northern Laos, and now-stalled rail and pipeline projects in Malaysia. While…
By John Hemmings — This year has been marked by the return of British naval power to the Indo-Pacific. For the first time since 2013, the United Kingdom (UK) deployed warships to the region, not only consecutively deploying three vessels…
By Kim Mai Tran & Andreyka Natalegawa — In his remarks at the United States-ASEAN Summit in November 2018, Vice President Mike Pence announced the U.S.-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership in an effort to spur U.S. investment in the region’s digital…
By Natasha Burrows & Kim Mai Tran — Economists posit that the U.S.-China trade war will have long-standing economic and geopolitical impacts on Southeast Asia. The export-oriented, globally-integrated economies of ASEAN will suffer most from trade barriers and tensions, particularly…
By Brian Harding — On October 23, the CSIS Southeast Asia Program will host a conference, Indonesia and the United States: 20 Years Post-Reformasi, which will explore themes outlined in this commentary. 2018 marks 20 years since Indonesia threw off…
The CSIS Energy and National Security Program has released a new compendium report that provides a summary of insights from a series of events held by CSIS in 2018 as part of the CSIS-Pertamina Southeast Asia Energy Initiative. This initiative…