The 21st ASEAN Lecture by His Excellency Nguyen Quoc Dzung, Deputy Foreign Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, highlighted the rapid and complex changes in the regional and global landscape, and identified key challenges that merit ASEAN’s focused attention in the community building process.
Social media is having an ever increasing impact on politics and everyday life. This Regional Social and Cultural Studies (RSCS) workshop examined the key drivers of change in the social media landscape over the past decade, and discussed issues contributing to the rapidly shifting information societies across Southeast Asia.
In this seminar, Professor Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi discussed mosque architecture design and planning within the perspective of Islam in a multi-faith context and ongoing nation-building.
The ASEAN Studies Centre of ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute held the 34th ASEAN Roundtable with the theme “Opportunities and Challenges in Uncertainty.” The Roundtable took a reflective and analytical look at the outcomes of the 35th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits held in Bangkok from 2-4 November.
In this seminar, Dr Donald Emmerson revisits a familiar analogy: “When the elephants fight, the grass suffers. When the elephants make love, the grass also suffers.” He urges the retirement of this hackneyed Cold War parable, notwithstanding the contention of some that the Southeast Asian grass is now trapped in a Cold War II between Chinese and American elephants.
In this seminar, Dr Wahyu Prasetyawan presented his paper on a quantitative analysis to understand the increasing influence of identity politics in the gubernatorial Jakarta election by examining empirical data from Village Potential Statistics (PODES) of Indonesia’s Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) and voting data from the General Election Commission (KPU).
Combining rural and urban fieldwork of Myanmar with consideration of historical changes in the political economy, Dr Elliott Prasse-Freeman focuses on displacement as a perverse state ‘development’ strategy in which labourers help transform environments.
In this seminar, Dr Gaik Cheng Khoo talks about China’s growing appetite for Malaysia’s durians and explores aspects of the Malaysian durian’s identity that differentiates itself from Thai varieties that dominate the global market.
In this seminar, General Agus Widjojo shared about the challenges to preserve the results of Indonesian military reform that have been championed for over 20 years.
In this seminar, Dr. Mia Mikic talks about the integration of ASEAN member states into GVCs and establishment of regional production networks for the future. She considers the impact of several ongoing developments for AMS, such as: (1) trajectory of traditional GVC growth; (2) technological drivers of changes in division of labour for value chains; and (3) role of policy uncertainty in short and long run.