This seminar discussed APEC along with more focused insights on the economic outlook of the Southeast Asian Region, which is expected to grow at a rate that is below world GDP growth in 2016-2017.
Professor Carlyle A. Thayer, compared and contrasted Vietnam’s military engagements with China and the United States and noted that both Vietnam and China have maintained considerable military connections, through various avenues such as strategic defence dialogues, border cooperation, or joint naval patrol in the Tonkin Gulf, during a seminar which was held in ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute on Monday morning, 06 June 2016.
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The article which was first published online by The Straits Times on June 08, 2016, can be viewed here.
Dr Ian Storey is Senior Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
This seminar assessed Vietnam’s multilateralization of international defence and security cooperation with Russia, India, the United States, Japan and China over the last five years.
The article which was first published online by The Australian on June 06, 2016, can be viewed here.
Dr Huong Le Thu is Visiting Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
The article which was first published online by Financial Times on June 02, 2016, can be viewed here.
Dr Mustafa Izzuddin is Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.
Professor Andrew Willford demonstrated to the audience that law and justice were actually quite at odds with each other through the vehicle of religion during the seminar “Betrayal, Sacred Landscapes, and Stories of Justice Among Tamils in Malaysia”, which was held in ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute on Thursday afternoon, 02 June 2016.
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This seminar explored the different meanings of ‘law’ and ‘justice’ in theory and as understood by Malaysian Tamils, and deconstructing them, to allow a more thorough and meaningful understanding of how ideas of race and ethnicity are produced, imagine and negated within, for example, the Malaysian Constitution. Andrew Wilford concludes with a mediation upon the ethics of critique by suggesting the ethnographic betrayal is both painful and necessary.
The article which was first published online by The Straits Times on June 02, 2016, can be viewed here.
Dr Ian Storey is Senior Fellow at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute.